I Said Dangerous and Here You Are

Spectacular Johnlock art I commissioned from the ever-brilliant @camillo1978, for my fic This is the Wonder That’s Keeping the Stars Apart. 🖤

Hey, all!  As some of you know, I recently published a masterpost on how to name your novel.

However, one reader responded that the post only applied to self-published authors, as publishers would help you come up with a marketable name.  When I responded that this, for the most part, was not true, and that authors usually receive minimal marketing help from publishers, they insisted that “publishers would still handle most of it.”

This is a common mentality, but to my knowledge, it can be fatal to a budding author’s career.  So I decided now is as good a time as any to create a masterpost of marketing resources for my fellow published authors to-be.

I intend to add to this list as time goes on, but I hope it will be a helpful and handy resource!  

Myths and Misconceptions:

3 Things Your Traditional Publisher is Unlikely to Do

Do Publishers Market Books

Traditional Publishing Myth:  The Publisher Will Provide Lots of Marketing Support

Do “Traditional” Publishers Market Their Books?

The Book Publishing Landscape is a Mess

6 Self-Publishing Myths That Need to Die

Do Publishers Market Their Books?

Marketing Resources:  

15 DIY Book Promotional Tools

71 Ways to Promote and Market Your Book

How to Market and Sell Your Book in 5 Steps

50 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Promote Your Book

How to Skyrocket Sales of Your Book 

Marketing Your Book

Sell More Books and Reach More Readers

How to Market a Book

101 Book Marketing Ideas to Promote Your Book

Book Marketing, How to Promote a Book

❄️ THE TERROR Q&As WITH DAVE K ❄️

Access details for this weekend's live Q&As with Dave are available here

And we are working on making the recordings available!

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Closeted written by sussexbound. Read the fic here. This comic will update Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please enjoy!

Finally managed to do some art this week.

Digital Watercolour made in Krita.

“Storm’s nearly here,” Francis calls out to no one and nothing in particular, voice as rough as the waves that strike fast and intense against the rocks.

It’s finally time to reveal mine and @cajunroe’s project for @theterrorreversebang. I’ve had so much fun working on these drawings, and it’s been ever so exciting to discover the yarn my writing partner has spun from my admittedly very vague concept. A huge thank you to Faye, the TTRB mods, and all my fellow artists in the event discord.

Lineart of one of two illustrations for chapter 2 of my Lake District fic Easy Scrambling. The second chapter is – finally – finished (still needs editing and betaing). My sincere apologies to all those who read chapter 1 when it was posted 2 1/2 years ago and have been waiting for an update ever since. It’s coming at last.

Spectacular Johnlock art I commissioned from the ever-brilliant @camillo1978, for my fic This is the Wonder That’s Keeping the Stars Apart. 🖤

dont mind me, just making my favourite dark-haired, high cheekboned, eccentric gay boys and their blond, riddled with hero complex, bisexual boyfriends do some well-deserved smooching because I'm still mentally ill about them<3

WE ARE BACK, BABEY! (registration info coming soon!)

For the first time since 2019, there will be a full-on FIC WRITERS RETREAT again in August of this year!!

August 10-13, to be exact. We've had a slight change of venue, so we'll be meeting in Oakville, Ontario this year. Final cost and registration process is still being finalized, but the ballpark is really similar to what it's been: roughly $450-$500 CANADIAN* that includes all meals from Thursday night to Sunday morning, 3 nights accommodation (private room in shared 2-person suite), and all conference expenses. You just have to get yourself there.

(*Current exchange rate with USD makes this $331-$368 US)

For those of you who don't know, this event started in 2016 where a whopping SEVEN (7) people got together in Barrie, Ontario for three days of writing, writing talk, fandom discourse, and general shenanigans. None of us knew each other, but this little handful of folks took a chance and started an amazing community that is still going strong. Subsequent years we had just on 20 participants on average, from all over. We survived a three year hiatus and are keen to get up and running again!

Every year we've met, we've had a great mix of familiar friends and new faces, and every new addition has been such a gift. Please feel free to scroll this blog and contact anyone who's come to the retreat before. If you like what you see, consider joining us this year!

I will tag all new posts with #fic retreat 2023 or you can follow this blog for updates.

I'd never have completed, let alone posted, anything without the phenomenal energy and encouragement and coaching of the writers on this retreat in 2017, 2018, and 2019. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this group and this event.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.