by Kati Albert | Jul 22, 2020 | blogging, e-book, Write a Book
“Adverbs are crashers in the syntax house party. More often than not, they should be deleted when they sneak in the back door,” writes Constance Hale, ignoring her own advice before she even reaches the first page of Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly...
by Kati Albert | Jul 20, 2020 | blogging, e-book, Write a Book
If you do not care how people react when they read something you wrote… why write at all? You could have done a million other things other than spend your time wrestling your thoughts onto the page through your keyboard or pen. But you didn’t. So unless you wrote it...
by Tomo Albanese | Jul 17, 2020 | Author Training, blogging, Write a Book
Do you write a paragraph and instantly edit it? Maybe you don’t like the words. Maybe it doesn’t make sense. Maybe it’s fine, but the compulsion to write and edit at the same time reaches a point where it feels like you might never finish a thought, let alone an...
by Kati Albert | Jul 15, 2020 | Author Training, Authors, Write a Book
A meter-wide whiteboard hangs on my living room wall. Two markers – one black, one red – clip inside a magnetic holder that doubles as an eraser. I use the black marker to log daily objectives, the red to swoop a tick when I finish something. Once each black entry...
by Kati Albert | Jul 10, 2020 | Authors, blogging, Book Marketing, Marketing Strategy, online promotion, Selling Books, Social Media, Write a Book, Your Own Best Seller
No marketing strategy works best than the title of your book. You may have an enticing cover design or the most captivating first line, but a boring title will get your book nowhere. The title of your book will determine whether a buyer will pick it or not. If the...
by Kati Albert | Jul 8, 2020 | Author Training, Authors, blogging, Write a Book
The thing that comedy and taste both have in common is that whether or not it is “good” mostly depends on your opinion. And yet, while everyone has different opinions on, say, what flavor of ice-cream is the best… You can still find agreement from chocolate lovers...
