This week, we spotlight BookBub with articles about gaining followers, growing your readership, how BookBub’s auction model works, and strategies for using ads on their platform.
Becca Puglisi, co-author of the Emotion Thesaurus, offers tips on how to create insecure characters while Sarah Gribble provides a guide to writing horror. Do you know who your target audience is? If not, Amy Wilson has some advice for you.
All that and a little more, including a few discussions about Ray Bradbury. Enjoy and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
What’s Autofiction? Should You Fictionalize the Story of Your Life? by Anne R. Allen
Point of View: What’s the Best Choice? by Jami Gold
Honing Your Author Voice by Heather Webb
BookBub Ads 101: How the Auction Model Works by AJ Jack
Using BookBub Ads to Drive Series Sell-Through by AJ Jack
Who is My Target Audience? by Amy Wilson
How to Write a Novel Synopsis from Good Story Company
How to Write Horror: 8 Crucial Components to Terrify and Delight by Sarah Gribble
Ray Bradbury and Roald Dahl by David Boaz
10 Tips for Growing a Global Audience of Readers by Mark Leslie Lefebvre
Can Writing Heal Physical Pain? by Sue Coletta
In Favor of Present Tense Writing by Rhiannon Richardson
Writing Insecure Characters by Becca Puglisi
14 Ideas for Getting More BookBub Followers by Diana Urban
The Sideshow Magician Who Inspired Ray Bradbury—Then Vanished by Erik Ofgang
Elsie the curious cow wanders to the window of the farmhouse where her human owners are watching a graphic TV show about the slaughter of animals at industrial meat farms. Shaken by this revelation of her own imminent fate, Elsie is determined to escape, but to where? She later learns of a country called India, where cows are worshipped, and devises a plan to get there.
In the middle of a war, two enemy pilots crash land on a desolate and inhospitable world. The human, Willis Davidge, and the Drac, Jeriba Shigan must overcome their mutual hatred and learn to work together not only for their own survival, but for that of the child that Jeriba is carrying.