Reviewing: How to Outline Commercial Fiction with the Story Engines Blueprint
By Sian Toop In this episode, the Education Lead at Plottr, Troy Lambert, interviews bestselling fantasy author and story coach Joseph Nassise about Story Engines. Created by Nassise, Story Engines is ‘an intuitive four-act plot structure for writing commercial...
Reviewing Plotting for Pantsers: Outlining as You Go with Zoey Indiana
In this episode of Plotting for Pantsers, Troy Lambert talks to self-published dark fantasy romance author Zoey Indiana about ‘discovery writing’ or ‘post plotting’, defined by Zoey as “letting my characters run around and drive me crazy for a couple of chapters and...
Unleashing the Power of Social Media for Authors: A Guide to a Successful Start
By Sian Toop Ok, so you’ve finally got a finished novel sitting on your desk. Weeks have been spent drafting, writing, and editing. Hours have been lost searching the deepest depths of your mind for the right words to craft that perfect sentence. But what now?...
Selling Your Books Direct
Indie authors should consider selling their books directly to readers and there are advantages in this approach as detailed below. One of the clear advantages in selling direct are higher royalties than the Amazon 70% rate and especially on 99c price tag where you...
