Opyrus Blog for Authors and Writers

Arthur Gutch

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Published On Aug 25, 2016

Building Your Author Platform: A Book Marketing Essential

While you may never have ever given it a thought, your author platform can make or break your publishing career, whether you want to traditionally publish your books or go the self publishing route. It's a relatively new concept, but one that's...

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Published On Aug 20, 2016

5 New & Useful Apps for Authors + 1 Really Fun One

Developers are constantly creating new apps, and many of them are a great help to authors. Every little bit of edge you can grab can mean one more page written, or more bit of book marketing done. In a long game like creating a writing career, every...

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Published On Aug 17, 2016

9 Topics Authors Should Think About Before Quitting the Day Job?

For many authors, quitting their day job and supporting themselves through their book writing is a tempting dream. No more boss, all the time in the world to write and the ability to set your own schedule sound like the ideal way to live. Full-time...

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Published On Aug 13, 2016

7 Writing and Book Marketing Tips from Chicken Soup's Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield has taken one small book of heartwarming stories and turned it into a multi-million dollar industry, the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Canfield collaborates with dozens of authors to publish his books, and is always eager to help a...

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Published On Aug 9, 2016

5 Book Marketing Tricks Using InstaFreebie

Imagine a website that allows you to give out free promotional material such as free chapters or whole books, all without you having to waste time emailing each individual reader. InstaFreebie gives you just that freedom, allowing you to give out...

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Published On Aug 4, 2016

How to Build Your Book Creation Team - Do You Have to Do it All?

No author creates their book completely alone. At the very least, you need an editor and help creating your book cover before you even think about publishing your work. While this is the era of self-publishing, learning to do every task needed takes...

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Published On Jul 31, 2016

5 Tips to Writing a Best-Selling Fiction Book Description

Call it a blurb or a book description, those short paragraphs on your sales page are the second most important sales items you have. Only the book cover is more important when it comes to grabbing a reader's attention. Your fiction book description...

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Published On Jul 28, 2016

4 New Game-Changing Book Marketing Tools

Most experts say that the best marketing task you can do is to write your next book. Unfortunately, authors today have to divide their time up between writing, marketing, website design, and many other tasks designed to get their books published and...

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Published On Jul 22, 2016

Robert Heinlein's Top 5 Rules for Authors

Robert Heinlein's career began during what is known as the golden age of science fiction. While this meant lots of voracious readers with a big appetite for MORE, it happened during the Great Depression. This meant that magazines couldn't pay much...

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