Sunday, 2 March 2014

How to Write a Romance for Kindle in 21 Days or Less

How to Write A Romance for Kindle in 21 Days (or Less)


How would you like to have the time it takes you to plot your next romance novel or novella reduced by over 60%?


For most novelists plotting the novel or novella is the most challenging aspect of the whole process of creating an engaging story. Plotting can be time-consuming, and sometimes HIT and MISS. If you ever started working on a story only to find half-way through that you couldn't take it further, you know what I mean. Most of the time it was because the plot failed to hold the story together.

But what if you could get your hands on a professionally crafted page-by-page story template when you set out to write your novel or novella, with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, complete with a fully developed plot to guide you how to plot your own story?


How to Write Romance Novels
How To Write a Kindle Romance Novel in 21 Days or Less is a guide that will remove all the usual stumbling blocks and take you from aspiring romance writer to published romance novelist for the immensely popular Kindle platform. It is a step-by-step system that covers how to come up with good story ideas, and how to quickly develop the plot for your story. Included is a professionally written novel template modeled from popular books in the category with examples to show you why they work so successfully. The guide also covers formatting and how to publish your finished book on Kindle.

Go from story idea to storytelling in 3 easy steps!




You’re about to discover:
  •          How to spend less time writing your romance books and more time enjoying life by employing this simple outlining trick to cut your book writing time in half.
  •              5 easy ways to get good story ideas for romance fiction that bestselling authors use.
  •            A flexible work-plan you can use to write and publish your romance novel in 21 days.
  •           All the online resources and links you need to create, publish, & promote your book in one convenient resource.
  •            Sell up to 5 times more books on Amazon with a secret book promotion method you can set up in just hours. Jumpstart your book sales without spending a dime on advertising.
  •           And much more.
If you have been struggling with how to write romance novels or to get started on your dream to write a romance for Kindle, How to Write A Kindle Romance Novel in 21 Days has the answers you’ve been looking for. 

Romance is BIG on Kindle. Grab a piece of the action today. Order now! This is a introductory price that won't last forever.

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 Lisa Richie


 
 



Friday, 14 February 2014

The Rise and Rise of Digital Publishing


Kindle is a Dream Come True for Novelists – Write for Kindle in 2014!

Digital publishing has not only made it easier to publish it has in many other ways made life easier for writers of fiction. Of all these digital publishing platforms, Kindle and Amazon is the most popular and most well known. Self-publishing is changing the face of publishing. And just to give you an idea of the potential of using Kindle for authors, here are some stats:

Amazon sold around five million Kindles in the nine months October 2011 to June 2012. In addition, the latest figures, which admittedly are cloaked in a large number of disclaimers, state that Amazon sold around another nine million Kindles in the third quarter of 2012. So, there are a minimum of 14 million Kindles sitting in customer’s homes around the world just waiting to download books. Besides Kindle there are other platforms where your writings can bloom.

The iPad has sold around 84 million units in the same period.
There were at least another 540,000 Android tablets sold during that time – and growing every day.

There are around 6 billion mobile phones in the world. In fact, around 686 million smartphones were sold in 2012 alone. Smartphones that can access the internet and read your Kindle book.

In Australia, that mythical, wide, brown land below the equator, there are around 29 million mobile phones for a population of around 23 million people. Most of these phones have internet access and can be used to read your Kindle book.

Men comprise 51% of ebook buyers.
Women comprise the rest.
47% of people read their e-books on their own personal computer.
The great majority of these readers are reading for entertainment and self-improvement and in fact one of the most popular fiction categories is romance fiction. 


By using Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing you can have your book available to millions in a matter of hours after you hit the publish button!  The possibilities are incredible. There are no agents to navigate, no publishers to reject your book without explanation. There are no physical copies of your books to keep in your garage. 

Fast track romance fiction success!
Get started today if you aren't already writing romance fiction. Download this free ebook: How to Write a Romance Novel Fast - FREE ebook guide 




 

Monday, 19 March 2012

Novel Software or the Books About Writing


Scalzi on the Writing Life

"You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop"  .....

Scalzi on Writing


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If you are a novelist, or someone aspiring to write your first novel, it is more than likely that you have read a few books on writing. John Scalzi's take on the writing life that prefaces this article has been described as "Worthwhile for aspiring writers and nosy folks". Now, as a writer I imagine you have to be nosy and incidentally, if you haven't read this funny and engaging book, it does not claim to teach you how to write a novel, only how to manage "The business of writing. The day-to-day existence of a professional writer - the writing life" I chose to begin with mention of this funny book because whether you choose to take your laptop to the coffee shop or to write at home, the fact is that most writers today have to do their writing on a computer, and being nosy folks means we will always want to find shortcuts to writing a novel, hence novel writing software.

Writing is hard work, as John Scalzi and others have observed. I have made the case In this other article for using novel writing software for ironing shortfalls in your knowledge base, especially concerning how to structure a novel, how to create engaging and memorable characters, how to polish your story idea or how to generate story writing ideas from scratch, etc. But since writing that article I met up with a friend of mine from way back who made the argument that he has all the fiction writing resources he needs to learn how to write (and none of that writing software stuff, thank you!). The resources in question in his case were half a dozen or so hard copies of the best books on writing lying on a shelf in a bookcase, and some DRM digital editions on his PC that I couldn’t borrow (they couldn’t be read on another computer except his, unfortunately).

This naturally got me thinking. The last such book I remember reading, avidly, I might add, was the autobiographical take on the subject of writing novels, On Writing-A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King. It probably isn’t your typical book in this category (writing how to books) but for purposes of this article it will do. Stephen King is a no-nonsense writer and in the second foreword to this 278-page book (I refer from the edition of 2000) he writes that he decided to write a short book because most books on writing are filled with ‘bullshit’, and that fiction writers, himself included, do not understand very much about the craft of writing fiction and thus never know, when it works, why it is good; and why it’s bad when it doesn’t. “I figure the shorter the book, the less the bullshit,” he added.

Kind of contrary, don’t you think? But don’t get me wrong. In fact, if you haven’t read this book I highly recommend you read it. 
Simply knowing that even a hugely successful contemporary novelist of Stephen King’s caliber also went through the grind and suffered the same headaches and heartaches as you at some point in his writing career can only boost your self-confidence those times you find yourself asking yourself why you thought you could write! We all get them, apparently. (As a side note, though, Stephen King in this book recommends as one of the best books about writing, and a must read for aspiring novelists, The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B White).
Where does this leave us, you may ask?

Well, you heard it from the supremo himself: some of the best books about writing can teach you a lot about the craft, except he doesn’t seem to think there are many of those! Plus, the book he recommended is even shorter than his own (only 85 pages!).

If you have read my previous posts you will know by now my views about the use of writing tools for teaching you the basics about the craft of fiction, and also for speeding up this learning process; so I will not repeat the arguments here. But since my title suggests a contest of sorts let me sum up with this bullet-point checklist. This isn’t an either/ or sort of choice – there is a place for both novel writing software and a book or books on writing for anybody seeking to hone their fiction writing skills and improve efficiency. I will leave it to you to decide for yourself where to put the emphasis.

The best books on writing can help you in these areas:
  •         Sentence structure and style how-to tips and examples.
  •         Do’s and Don’ts for plotting, character development, storytelling, etc, as well as detailed commentary/advice on work habits, attitude, networking, getting published and so on.
  •        Self-discipline and stamina prep-ups and pep-ups (or pep talk). Anybody can use a bit of that, you know.







 

Novel writing software on the other hand will help you in these areas:
  • You learn by doing, therefore a fast-track skills acquisition process for beginners especially: how to structure a novel, checklists for developing well-rounded characters, timelines, brainstorming tools, sometimes even tools to manage your submissions for publishing a book – all at the click of a mouse.
  • Built-in help systems for Story management and story development, best practice and technique, are especially handy, if, like most modern novelists, you do your writing on a PC.
  • Outlining your story, which has traditionally been a headache for most novelists, becomes a snap, as you will be working in a template, the story engine giving you writing prompts all the way. 
The Bottom line is this: In most cases you may need only one writing program to see you through the process of learning how to write, how to craft good fiction, as opposed to a half dozen books on writing (to say nothing about the time to read them), but, depending on your frame of mind and your level of experience at the outset, a good fiction writing how-to book can usually spur you into action and point you in the right direction by helping to highlight your strengths and weaknesses, thus giving you your ‘point of attack’, whether you then chose to work with writing software or not.


 "Scrivener is the writer’s friend. Maybe the writer’s best friend."

 Scrivener is a great story management tool and has been described as:

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These other articles may be of interest:

Novel writing Ideas: How Novel Writing Software Can Help You
Write A Novel With New Novelist Software