Opyrus Blog for Authors and Writers

Published On Sep 27, 2014

4 Tips on How to Market Your Book on Facebook Without Being Annoying

Facebook can be either the best way to grow your writing career or the biggest waste of marketing time, depending on how you use it. Writers constantly give up on Facebook, moaning about the fact that they got very few sales from spending their...

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Published On Sep 27, 2014

4 Steps to Writing a Great Blurb: Make or Break Time

Your cover is what grabs their eye and makes potential readers look into your book. But people look at interesting things hundreds of times a day, and most of them don't call for a second glance. The way to entice them, to make them read on and...

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Published On Sep 27, 2014

Quick Tips to Find Those Elusive Book Reviewers

There's a frustrating circle most self-published or Indie authors have to go through. Readers rely on reviews to judge whether to buy their books, but readers have to buy their books before they can leave a review. For most, it's a matter of hoping...

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Published On Sep 27, 2014

3 Ways Authors Can Find the "Zone" : Fake it 'Til You Feel It

There's a popular view of writers that says they scribble down inspired prose whenever the muse hits them, working frantically whenever inspiration arrives. This might be the way to capture new topics and ideas at the beginning of the writing...

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Published On Sep 27, 2014

Audiobooks - An Amazing Untapped Market for Self Published Authors

First there was hardcover, then there was paperback, and now there are eBooks. Books are always evolving for the needs and desires of the readers. Along the way, somewhere on the side, the concept of audiobooks continued to grow. First on cassette...

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