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More Similar to or Different from You – How Do You Like Your Protagonists?

I remember reading a blog post a year or so ago about the trend toward awful/bitchy/ugly/unpleasant – fill in your own blank – heroines. People are bored with nice girls finishing first, or so the assertion was made. I gotta tell you, I resisted that one. A lot. Still do. While I might want a badass heroine like Gal Godot…

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#character development #mean female characters #personality profiles #Stan Travels #Wonder Woman

SUNDAY INSPIRATIONS: Writing is running downhill…

Sunday Inspirations. Send us your favorite quote, image, poem, idea … anything that has been helpful or inspirational to your writing process. If we love it, we may use it as is, or take the inspiration and modify it in some way. Give us a link to your website or blog and we’ll be sure to give you credit! Email [email protected]…

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#author quotes #book marketing #Marcie Brock #Rainbow Rowella

Baseball Beards – More than Superstition

As a baseball fan, you’d Stan would be all over the post-season. Twelve-year-old Stan is a huge New York Yankees fan – what 12-year-old who lives East of Kansas isn’t? He and his buddy are thrilled to meet two members of the Yankees’ Double A team, the Albany-Colonie Yankees: Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada. He still roots for the Yankees as an adult, but…

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#beards in baseball #facial hair #MLB playoffs #shaving practices #Stan Travels

What's on Your Travel Bucket List?

What’s on Your Travel Bucket List?

While the character of Stan is loosely based on a friend of mine, he is fictional.There may be a man (or men) out there in the world who are similar to him, in terms of age, interests, and world views – but I don’t know them and did not pattern this book after them. Likewise, the character of Paula is based loosely on aspects from my past. However, she’s a…

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#Stan Travels #travel bucket llist #world travel

Ideas for October Book Promotions

As you may be well aware, I’ve been working on a novel for a while now. We’re closing in on the finish – I can see that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, in that I’ve hired an editor who has already looked over my manuscript. He’s given me a quote, and I’ve given him a guarantee to have the final version to him by Thanksgiving. That’s progress! #StanTra…

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#StanTravels #book marketing #crowdfunding #holidays #knock-knock jokes #October #social media campaign

Hometown Holidays Different from Holidays Around the World

So yesterday – October 1st, was International Music Day, International Coffee Day, and National Walk Your Dog Day. I posted about all of these on my author Facebook page, as all are relevant to Stan’s story. How does one learn about all these interesting and very specific “holidays”? There are lots of sites that list them, but Brownielock…

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#days weeks months holidays #holidays around the world

SUNDAY INSPIRATIONS: As for literary criticism in general

SUNDAY INSPIRATIONS: As for literary criticism in general …

Sunday Inspirations. Send us your favorite quote, image, poem, idea … anything that has been helpful or inspirational to your writing process. If we love it, we may use it as is, or take the inspiration and modify it in some way. Give us a link to your website or blog and we’ll be sure to give you credit! Email inspiration@writemarketdes…

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#book critics #book marketing #book reviews #Kurt Vonnegut #Marcie Brock

Talking Out Loud to Myself in My Head

A couple weeks ago, I had this idea for a new novel. The entire story is told via the running dialogue in the main character’s head. For one thing, it would definitely prevent “head hopping” – the (controversial) “practice of switching point-of-view characters within a single scene.”* Of course the character would interact with other people, which would occur…

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#fiction POV #head-hopping #Stan Travels #talking to yourself

You'll Sell More Books if You Don't Sleep on the Plane

You’ll Sell More Books if You Don’t Sleep on the Plane

Zach Hall is just a guy – a guy who one day decided NOT to sleep on the plane and,

instead, talk to the person next to him.From that one instance, he made a shift and began talking to people on every flight. Some wanted to engage – others were, well, sleeping. But the thing is, the process of endeavoring to engage changed his mindset, and it…

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#book marketing #Don&039;t Sleep on Planes #Marcie Brock #networking #Savvy Book Marketer #Zachary Hall

Phoenix’s Fetish for Name Changes

I don’t know if this is a phenomenon specific to Phoenix, or if it occurs a lot of other places, but I noticed recently that we seem to have a fascination with changing the names of locations around the Valley. Here’s a list, off the top of my head:

(1) Squaw Peak became Piestewa Peak (named for a female Native American soldier fallen in the Iraq War) in 2008.

(…

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SUNDAY INSPIRATIONS: The pages are still blank, but...

SUNDAY INSPIRATIONS: The pages are still blank, but…

Sunday Inspirations. Send us your favorite quote, image, poem, idea … anything that has been helpful or inspirational to your writing process. If we love it, we may use it as is, or take the inspiration and modify it in some way. Give us a link to your website or blog and we’ll be sure to give you credit! Email [email protected]

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Looking Backward Won’t Take You Forward

I was looking in the mirror this morning, and I found myself wondering how long it was going to take me to get back to how I looked in my last head shot. This should not have been a lightbulb moment, but the awareness that I’m never going to “get back” to where I was a few years ago was rather like an ice-water shower.

Over the last 16 months, I’ve been wo…

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#book marketing #book marketing plan #forward movement #Marcie Brock #planning for future #Savvy Book Marketer

Making Procrastination Work FOR You

Be honest: how often do you find yourself with too much to-do list at the end of your day? I think this happens to a lot of us. And, according to Jon Acuff, author of Finish, it’s one of the things that keeps us stuck, prevents us from finishing the important things – large and small – in life. We started, but we didn’t get it done – on time, perfectly, as…

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#book marketing #getting back on track #Marcie Brock #perfectionism #procrastination #Savvy Book Marketer

MonDAY INSPIRATIONS: Who is more to be pitied?

MonDAY INSPIRATIONS: I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book

Sunday Inspirations. Send us your favorite quote, image, poem, idea … anything that has been helpful or inspirational to your writing process. If we love it, we may use it as is, or take the inspiration and modify it in some way. Give us a link to your website or blog and we’ll be sure to give you credit! Email inspiration@write…

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#alice walker #author quotes #authors #book marketing #Marcie Brock #Savvy Book Marketer #writers

The 5 P’s of Planning a 5K – or Marketing a Book

I just completed my first 5K in more than 15 years. Actually, it was my first organized 5K ever, but once upon a time, I used to run 10 to 15 miles a week. Then life happened, and I stopped running. Or exercising. Or walking much past what the day-to-day effort called for.

In 2011, I got married – and I gained a lot of weight over the last six…

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#book marketing #Marcie Brock #Miles Beccia #planning a 5K #running a 5K #Savvy Book Marketer #self-publishing

Are your branding and marketing message cohesive?

A client recently forwarded me information about a relatively new book distribution company he was thinking about checking out. I did a cursory scan of the website and noticed an odd thing right off the bat: its use of this decorative font that, while pretty, is very difficult to read.

Coupled with the busy picture backdrop and the text that gets…

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#book distribution #book marketing #book returns #book sales #branding #indie authors #Marcie Brock #self-publishing

Did your editor actually deliver what they promised?

Having begun my publishing career as a professional editor, I’ve written a number of posts about how important editing is to your success as an author.Whether it’s your first book or your twenty-first, you’ve got to pay for editing if you intend to make the best book you can. I realize that many authors are struggling to budget time and money…

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#editing #getting your money&039;s worth #hiring an editor

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