Happy Friday to all the Story Empire readers! The year is quickly coming to a close with Christmas and New Year's Day just a matter of a few weeks away. 2018 has been challenging, astounding and fun for the other authors at Story Empire as well as me. With that in mind, I thought I'd … Continue reading Five for Friday: Fizzled Marketing Channels of 2018
Write Medium
Hi gang, Craig here again. My last post was called Writing Small, which prompted me to ask myself what writing medium should look like. You can go back and see Write Small by clicking on the words. This was the post where we discussed small personal issues to help readers relate to our characters. Doesn't … Continue reading Write Medium
Save Time! Create a Document Template in Scrivener.
All writers face the blank screen and think about what they’re going to write. Too often we start and realize we didn’t format properly and stop, then get distracted by something else and we’ve lost our train of thought all too quickly. Getting started can be daunting enough without spending time getting everything just right … Continue reading Save Time! Create a Document Template in Scrivener.
Building on a Theme
Happy last day of November, SEers! We’re doing something a little different on Story Empire today. We’ve chosen one word to use as a theme and are sharing a few short sentences built around that word from one of our books. Our theme word is “Tree." Pretty basic, right? But it can appear in so … Continue reading Building on a Theme
Exposing your work, on #LisaBurtonRadio
Story Empire doesn’t to a lot of reblogging. Since we’re all about helping other authors, I decided to share this post here. This is a group of power-bloggers dedicated to helping promote their fellow authors. Good folks to know when you need a bit of free exposure. — Craig
Hi, all, and welcome to another edition of Lisa Burton Radio. This week is a special edition, because it’s geared to all you authors out there. It might give some good ideas to bloggers who want to host guests too.
Today, I’ve collected a group of power bloggers who host authors on their sites. This gives an author a way to reach a larger audience than they might if they were simply posting about date-night or something. This means when you have a new book to promote, or maybe to give an older title a secondary push.
We’re going to start by addressing the three-hundred-pound gorilla in the room, and I mean that literally. Chris The Storyreading Ape, hosts one of the largest author blogs around. “Did you get my fruit basket, Chris?”
“Yes I did thanks, Lisa – very thoughtful of you to use edible leaves to weave the…
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