Twitterific Writing Links

Twitterific, Writing Tips

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engineBlog (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 30,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Why Writers (Sometimes) Make the Worst Critics:  http://ow.ly/Wm8zF by Josh Rutherford

The Lazy Author’s Way to Identify and Overcome Writing Weaknesses:  http://ow.ly/Wm8Qk @KMWeiland

How Scooby Doo Defined The Modern Slasher Flix Part 1:  http://ow.ly/Wm9ik and 2: http://ow.ly/Wm9nn

Critique Groups Dos and Don’ts:  http://ow.ly/Wm8Hb by Linda Wilson

5 Terrible Defenses of the Star Wars Prequels:  http://ow.ly/Wm8KM by Oren Ashkenazi         Continue reading

Timing a Release

Business of Writing

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigfile8151262998458

When I was strictly traditionally published, timing a release had nothing to do with me. It was, actually, in my contract.  Usually I had a two or three book contract and my deadlines and the books’ release dates were spelled out.

The release dates even trickled into my writing…I frequently set the story during the season the book would be launching in.

I remember that other trad-published mystery writers weren’t happy about December releases, for example.  I did have a trad-pub December release in 2013. It was a slow start for that book, but it has ended up being one of my long-term strongest-selling titles. Although slow starts do tend to make publishers nervous since they’re not so into publishing’s “long tail” as self-publishers are. They encounter returns from bookstores.

Toward the end of November, I had a completed Myrtle Clover (self-pub) book. I remembered the bias against holiday-timed releases. But there was no way I was going to sit on the launch, either. I’d listed the book as releasing in 2015. So I put it out on Thanksgiving weekend. I sent out a reader newsletter to announce the release, carefully set up the book’s pages on Amazon, etc., to reflect reader reviews for the rest of the series, and then just carried on with hosting house guests and doing family activities and stuff like that.Continue reading

Reducing Stress as a Writer

Business of Writing

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigfile0002062790027

Journalist Porter Anderson had an interesting article in Thought Catalog: “Author-Editor Relationships: An Endangered Species?” In it, he says:

“One of the things that makes the 2015-2016 transition interesting in the creative corps is a subdued, reflective, sometimes exhausted, and often pensive mood.

A lot of it revolves around marketplace fatigue.”

Smashwords founder Mark Coker states in his post “2016 Book Publishing Predictions”:

“Many full time indies will quit or scale back production in 2016.”

He explains this is due to authors who may have prematurely quit their day jobs and are now facing a much more challenging publishing landscape.Continue reading

Twitterific Writing Links

Twitterific, Writing Tips

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engineBlog (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 30,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Thanks to all who entered mystery writer Sue Coletta’s giveaway! And congratulations to winners Carol Sue, Mark, and Rosemary. 

Happy New Year! Hope everyone has a great 2016.  Here are the links I shared in the last couple of weeks.

5 Ways To Think Differently About Motivation When Setting 2016 Goals:  http://ow.ly/Ww0kZ @mazlocoach

“Did my agent fire me and I just don’t know it?” http://ow.ly/VYdwg @Janet_Reid #TopTweets2015

On the Rise and Fall of the New Creative Class: http://ow.ly/VYdwh @IreneKeliher #TopTweets2015               Continue reading

Twitterific Writing Links

Twitterific, Writing Tips

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engineBlog (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 30,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Hope everyone enjoys their holidays! I’m going to return two weeks from today with an exceptionally long Twitterific, my first for 2016. :)  

4 Ways for Writers to Make Money in Marketing:  http://ow.ly/VOdkQ @LindaUKmasters

3 Tips to Unleash Your Creativity: http://ow.ly/VOdMr  @ADDerWORLD

How to Storyboard in Scrivener:  http://ow.ly/VOdnn @mgherron

What Grabs Readers: The Inside Story:  http://ow.ly/VOdx2 @lisacron     Continue reading

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