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February 7, 2021 By Anne R. Allen 60 Comments

Is Your Novel Ready to Publish? 12 Signs You’re Still in the Learning Phase of Your Writing Career

Is Your Novel Ready to Publish? 12 Signs You’re Still in the Learning Phase of Your Writing Career

Are you ready to publish? by Anne R. Allen If you’ve used the pandemic lockdown as a time to write that novel you always knew you had in you, congratulations! You’ve taken the depressing, horrific lemon that was 2020 and turned it into literary lemonade. You deserve a great big “Congrats!” and several pats on […]

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Filed Under: Self-Publishing, The Publishing Business, Writing Craft Tagged With: Anne R. Allen, Mary Sue, ready to publish?, So Much for Buckingham, Tom Swifties, writing dialogue

September 2, 2018 By Anne R. Allen 96 Comments

9 Pieces of Bad Publishing Advice New Writers Should Ignore

9 Pieces of Bad Publishing Advice New Writers Should Ignore

by Anne R. Allen 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 […]

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Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Social Media and Marketing For Writers, The Publishing Business Tagged With: Googling Old Boyfriends, Kindle Unlimited, newsletters, self publishing, Self-Editing, So Much for Buckingham, social media for authors

April 1, 2018 By Anne R. Allen 50 Comments

Saying Goodbye to That WIP: When it’s Okay to Give Up on a Writing Project.

Saying Goodbye to That WIP: When it’s Okay to Give Up on a Writing Project.

Saying goodbye to that WIP can be bittersweet.. by Anne R. Allen I’ve recently had discussions with several writers who have been pondering saying goodbye to that WIP they’ve been laboring at for years. All of them wanted to move on for different reasons. All of their reasons were valid. Unfortunately, the writers felt it […]

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Filed Under: Self-Publishing, The Writing Life, Writing Craft Tagged With: Abandoning a book, give up on a manuscript, newbie advice, saying goodbye to a WIP, So Much for Buckingham, Writing tips

July 23, 2017 By Anne R. Allen 70 Comments

Writer’s Block and Depression: Why Writers Need to “Fill the Well”

Writer’s Block and Depression: Why Writers Need to “Fill the Well”

Writer’s block can be a sign of incipient depression. by Anne R. Allen Writer’s block is probably the most popular topic in the writing posts on Medium, the popular new (ish) blogging platform. Lots of Millennials use Medium, and their posts offer an insight into our culture’s future. I’ve been amazed to see how many young […]

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Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: Angela Macintosh, depression in writers, Julia Cameron, Keri Knutson, Lindsay Knowles, Medium, Nancy Andreasen, So Much for Buckingham, The Queen of Staves, Writers block

July 16, 2017 By Anne R. Allen 117 Comments

Publishing Industry Cults, Weaponized Amazon Reviews, and Organized Cyberbullying

Publishing Industry Cults, Weaponized Amazon Reviews, and Organized Cyberbullying

Cults are as dangerous now as in Savonarola’s day by Anne R. Allen Over the years I’ve written  quite a bit about the dangers of author-on-author cyberbullying. A few years ago, a group I called  “Mean Girls-meets-Lord of the Flies” terrorized authors on Goodreads and Amazon. A lot of us left Goodreads and never went […]

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Filed Under: Scams and Alerts for Writers, Social Media and Marketing For Writers, The Publishing Business Tagged With: Agent complaints, Amazon reviews, boxed set scams, Boxed sets, Cults, Goodreads bullies, Group promotions, Kristen Lamb, Publishing Industry, So Much for Buckingham, Tara Sparling, weaponized Amazon reviews

July 9, 2017 By Anne R. Allen 34 Comments

Audiobooks are the Fastest Growing Book Market: How to Get Your Book Recorded

Audiobooks are the Fastest Growing Book Market: How to Get Your Book Recorded

Audiobooks narrator C. S. Perryess at work. An Interview with Audible Narrator C. S. Perryess Audiobooks are hot.  Especially for adult fiction.  People like to listen to audiobooks on their phones. New audio platforms like Amazon Echo and Alexa and Google home make listening to audiobooks convenient and fun. Millennials like audiobooks. There are lots […]

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Filed Under: E-Books and Technology for Writers, The Publishing Business Tagged With: ACX, Audible, audiobooks, C. S. Perryess, Food of Love, how to get your book recorded, Kevin Spacey, No Place Like Home, So Much for Buckingham, Why Grandma Bought That Car

January 8, 2017 By Anne R. Allen 44 Comments

PUBLISHING PREDICTIONS for 2017 from Agent Laurie McLean

PUBLISHING PREDICTIONS for 2017 from Agent Laurie McLean

  Looking into my Crystal Ball by Fuse Literary Agency Co-Founder Laurie McLean Wow. 2016 sucked. In so many ways. I was never happier to kick a year to the curb than 2016. From David Bowie in January to Carrie Fisher in December, it seemed that each week brought a fresh tragedy to our lives. […]

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Filed Under: E-Books and Technology for Writers, The Publishing Business Tagged With: 2017 predictions, Agent Laurie McLean, audiobooks, Literary agents, Self-published ebooks, So Much for Buckingham

October 16, 2016 By Anne R. Allen 163 Comments

Amazon’s New Review Rules: Should Authors Be Worried?

Amazon’s New Review Rules: Should Authors Be Worried?

Amazon’s New Review Rules: Nobody expects the Amazon Inquisition! by Anne R. Allen Amazon has been tweaking its customer review rules. Some revisions appeared in late September and others debuted early in October. So how do they affect authors? Should we be worried? Is the Amazon Review Inquisition going to excommunicate more reviewers and banish our reviews? […]

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Filed Under: The Publishing Business, Writers Dealing with Reviews and Rejection Tagged With: Amazon Review Guidelines, Amazon review removal, Amazon reviews, Amazon rules, American Bar Association Journal, book bloggers, Book Marketing, Molly Greene, self publishing, So Much for Buckingham

September 13, 2015 By Anne R. Allen 91 Comments

Does an Author Really Need a Blog? 10 Reasons a Blog May Help Your Career

Does an Author Really Need a Blog? 10 Reasons a Blog May Help Your Career

by Anne R. Allen   “Blogging doesn’t sell books.” “Don’t waste your time blogging.” “Make book trailers! Email those newsletters! Spend more time on Pinterest and Instagram! Blogging is so over!” I’m hearing this stuff every day. But I still think a blog is one of the best uses of an author’s time. Even if […]

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Filed Under: Blogging for Authors, Social Media and Marketing For Writers, The Publishing Business Tagged With: Author blogs, Blog community, Blogging, blogging for beginners, how to blog, slow blogging, So Much for Buckingham, The Slow Blog Manifesto

July 5, 2015 By Anne R. Allen 91 Comments

Public Shaming, Cyberbullies, and the Hive Mind: Fighting ‘Censorship by Troll’

Public Shaming, Cyberbullies, and the Hive Mind: Fighting ‘Censorship by Troll’

by Anne R. Allen   Lots has been written about the pain caused by online bullying of children and teens—and that stuff is horrific—but we don’t hear as much about the cyberbullying that goes on in the adult world. But cyberbullying can have disastrous consequences, no matter what the victim’s age or social status. In […]

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Filed Under: Social Media and Marketing For Writers, The Writing Life Tagged With: Amazon reviews, Anne Rice, Chuck Wendig, Goodreads, Groupthink, Hive Mind, Internet bullying, Jay Asher, Jon Ronson, Richard III, So Much for Buckingham, So You've Been Publicly Shamed, social media for authors

May 24, 2015 By Anne R. Allen 88 Comments

10 Tips for Choosing the Right Book Title

10 Tips for Choosing the Right Book Title

by Anne R. Allen   I’m not going to pretend that picking a title for your book is easy. In fact, it gets tougher all the time. We have to consider a lot more than how grabby a title looks on a bookstore shelf these days. In choosing a title now, we have to think […]

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Filed Under: E-Books and Technology for Writers, Social Media and Marketing For Writers, Writing Craft Tagged With: Anne R. Allen, Bad Book Titles, Book title analyser, Book titles, Frances Caballo, Joanna Penn, So Much for Buckingham, The Best Revenge, Title makeovers, Writing tips

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Anne R. AllenAnne R. Allen writes funny mysteries and how-to-books for writers. She also writes poetry and short stories on occasion. She’s a contributor to Writer’s Digest and the Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market.

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