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Arthur Gutch

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Published On Jun 30, 2015

10 Steps to Effective Author Videos

One of the best ways to take your book marketing to the next level is by creating a series of author videos on YouTube. Talk about the writing process, chat about the fictional world you set your novels in, create a new craft from your non-fiction...

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Published On Jun 26, 2015

4 TED Talks Authors Need to Watch

TED Talks are amazing speeches in an almost infinite number of topics. They can inform and inspire you in your writing career, or they can suck you in and keep you fascinated for an entire afternoon. They're that good. The number of talks is...

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Published On Jun 24, 2015

The Essential 10-Point Plan for Marketing Your Ebook

It's tempting to chase after all the newest marketing tactics when trying to promote your ebook. Marketing experts tout the latest techniques, pushing a new way to market every few months. But marketing ebooks, like just about everything else,...

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Published On Jun 19, 2015

Dropcards -- A New Way to Sell E-Books and Audiobooks

If your books are exclusively digital, existing only in eBook and audiobook form, marketing them online may be easy but promoting your books in the real world can be a big challenge. People handing over cash in book stores or at conventions tend to...

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Published On Jun 17, 2015

6 Ways to Procrastinate And Help Your Writing

Face it, every writer gets to a point in the middle of her novel when it's not so exciting any more. It's just more of the same old thing, and this bored feeling makes it easy to play around online, wasting minutes that turn into hours. After a...

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Published On Jun 11, 2015

How to Energize Back List Sales Without Writing a Word

Book fashions are as changeable and fickle as some New York Fashion Week dresses. What looks cutting edge and trendy one year is dated and old-fashioned the next. Even tried-and-true basics can become cliche if enough authors use them for their book...

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Published On Jun 9, 2015

Learning Your Craft: 10 Top Online Classes Writers Should Check Out

No one is born a good writer. The great ones are constantly learning, honing their craft, to improve their writing and make better books. In decades past you'd have to go to workshops and college classes in order to learn new aspects of the writing...

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Published On Jun 5, 2015

Top 10 Habits to Become a More Productive Author

There really are no overnight successes. Authors who suddenly burst on the scene with a bestseller are usually people who have been writing day after day for years on end. Every one of them has developed consistent writing habits that ensure the...

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Published On Jun 2, 2015

How to Guarantee Higher Book Sales with the Right Keywords

Discoverability might sound like the newest trendy buzzword, but all it really means is making sure potential readers can find your books more easily. Readers are faced with thousands of new books each day and the best way to make sure yours is the...

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