PeopleThe May 21, 2019 farewell hour: category research, pantsers versus plotters, 5,000-word days in walk-broken sprints, professional editors and specific beta readers, AutoCrit far superior to Grammarly for fiction, the category-one launch push, the yes-yes hypnosis of webinar traps, consignment…
PeopleThe March 19, 2019 session on developing book ideas: nonfiction from passion without term-paper style, fiction seeds gathered by the hundreds at faires, reenactments, museums, and old folks' homes, the rings-on-a-tree expansion method, research before writing, why only-3-left never applies…
PeopleThe January 15, 2019 hour on ideas and market reality: thirty seeds generated fast, KDP Rocket research, the unbeatable coloring book wall, two winnable categories pulling up a tough one, short books as market tests, the space opera prequel strategy,…
PeopleThe December 18, 2018 hour on confidence: publish the imperfect first book, the freelancer as salesperson, approaching agents through conversation, Richard Branson's accept-and-figure-it-out, fear as fiction, the pretend-no-savings mind game, Bonnie's 80,000 words at 78, the pop-and-lock dancer nobody clapped…
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