Need tips on how to write a novel? How to self-publish your book? Promote it? Uncertain how to make your sentences and paragraphs pop with energy? Need inspiration to beat writer’s block? Writing prompts to get you going? I’ve authored several books on those subjects and more.
Each book draws from advice given to my many clients and hundreds of other authors … authors who’ve asked the exact same questions as you about writing and publishing.
My writing books include:
7 Minutes a Day to Your Bestseller
Novel writers receive expert advice on topics like motivating yourself to write, starting your story with exciting opening lines, creating intriguing characters, mastering the craft of writing to elevate your style, and pitching your story to potential publishers.
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7 Minutes a Day to Mastering the Craft of Writing
Craft is as important to storytelling as a good plot or interesting characters. This book gives you 50 tried-and-true techniques to improve your writing craftsmanship, including using active voice, showing not telling, ramping up dramatic tension, and being more descriptive.
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7 Minutes a Day to a Self-Published Book
Whether writing a novel or nonfiction, whether planning to print a paperback or an ebook, this book guides you through the self-publishing process, from the title page to the index, from designing a cover to formatting your text.
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7 Minutes a Day to Promoting Your Book
You’ll develop a strategy that will get articles about your self-published book in newspapers, magazines, on radio and television programs, posted on blogs, and linked to on websites, while landing you book signings and readings, all at virtually no cost.
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Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers
Suffering from writer’s block? Self-doubt about your talent? Has creative writing lost its joy? Reclaim the pleasure of writing and pen the book you’ve always dreamed of through uplifting, meaningful phrases that can be read aloud or internalized weekly over the course of a year. Writing prompts and tips follow each affirmation, giving you the inspiration and motivation to keep writing.
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Storystarters: 200+ Writing Prompts That Lead To Stories
Storystarters presents more than 200 writing prompts centered on exciting and interesting conflicts for your protagonist to solve. The prompts are divided among more than 50 topics and pit your story’s hero against nature, another person, society, God and himself in various scenarios.
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OTHER BOOKS:
Windmill: A Novel
For fifteen years, Carl Steinar and his sons, Peter and Lyle, have maintained a tenuous balance, keeping together their family and farm on the western plains of Nebraska. Like blades in a well-oiled windmill, each works in harmony with the other. But when Abbie Blaire, the new reporter in town comes to write a story about them, a monkey wrench is thrown into their perfect machine: She is the spitting image of the wife and mother the Steinar men lost years ago. They soon find themselves on new trajectories in which their needs and goals can only collide.
ORDER: Paperback