Good morning writers, wanderers and world builders, I hope you’ve all had a brilliant week.

Yesterday, I attended my first ever writing event. It was hosted by the Writers & Artists, and included workshops, a keynote talk from a wonderful author (Rachel Joyce), and panel discussions with publishers and agents. I’ve never attended anything quite like it, and I enjoyed it far more than I thought my little, introverted self would. I learnt so much.

Have you ever been to a writing event? Maybe a workshop, a festival, a talk? I would highly recommend it, for the following reasons;

1. You get to meet other writers
For me, this is what made the day so wonderful. I am a desperately shy person, who rarely socialises, and suddenly I was in a room with a whole bunch of people I’d never met before. But guess what? Most of them were exactly…

I recently shared 7 Reasons for Using Videos in Your Social Marketing Campaigns. Many commented that it’s hard using YouTube effectively–a statement I agree with, as I’m pretty inexperienced in its use myself. Which is why I hope you find today’s guest post by Mahendra Bajiya useful! Mahendra is an entrepreneur and blogger who uses YouTube to promote a variety of products. He is particularly intrigued by its potential to market books, due to its wide reach and demographics.

4 Useful Tips to Promote a Book on YouTube More Effectively

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Many authors don’t focus enough on using YouTube to promote their books. That is unfortunate, seeing as it is the second largest search engine on the planet, and there are lots of reasons why you should be publishing videos to promote your book on its platform.

While promoting a book on YouTube effectively can be tricky, there are a…

1. It looks easy from the outside.

2. You spend a lot of time looking at finished, polished products instead of imperfect, incomplete drafts.

3. Some ideas sound great in your head but not as good when you dump them onto paper.

4. Writing is a mental exercise that is more physically draining than it seems.

5. It’s also time-consuming.

6. “Research” is one of a writer’s biggest distractions.

7. It’s fun to plan out a story but not always as fun to put that plan into action.

8. The idea of having written something is more appealing than actually doing the work for most people.

9. You want everything you publish to get praise and recognition. 80% of it won’t.

10. You expect everything to come out of your head already perfect. Not happening.

11. Making money as a new writer is almost impossible, so it’s never your only…

Social Media is both a boon and a curse to new writers. Online writing groups and forums are an excellent source of insider information on the publishing industry—stuff we once could only find at expensive classes and writers’ conferences.

But social media is also a major source of misinformation and dangerously bad advice.

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Intellectual property which is also called the IP is a very misunderstood topic. It is misunderstood by the people because it is a boring topic not many of us would love to read or hear about this, not a very exciting topic.

First, let me tell you that there are four types of intellectual property and it is very important to understand all the four IP.

• Patent: Patent basically is the right to exclude other people from making whatever you have created. But you have to disclose the process of how it is made and after your, patent runs out or expires which depends on when you got your patent the rest of the world too can go ahead and make what you have created. There are two types of patent:
• Utility Patent
• Design Patent

The whole thing to understand about a patent is that it doesn’t give you the…

We have all heard phrases that stuck with us. We use them in our writing and speech. Problems arise when we either misheard or remembered the phrases incorrectly. The results  range from humorous to downright confusing.

The Correct Phrase                                           What You’ll Sometimes See or Hear

all it entails                                                            all it in tails

by and large                                                         buy in large

chock full of                        …

Time equals money, especially for authors who become indie publishers. That equation becomes all too real when you hire an editor, designer, formatter or author assistant.

Sometimes you pay for time explicitly — for instance, you’ll pay an assistant to work ten hours a month to do everything from social media to dealing with distributors. Sometimes you pay a flat fee for a service based on word count or complexity. But when you go beyond the scope of that fee, your hired expert may charge you by the hour.

Efficiency and planning are the best ways to meet your budget. Here are five ways to keep costs from spiraling out of control.

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