Why you listen a lot while reading
Audio narration comes in a few formats, but the only one that has a good shot at improving a book is a pro narration.
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Use Audience Insights To Ease Memoirs
If you’re working on a memoir, like many debut authors do, it might seem so very hard. Unearthing all of that emotion is taxing, and for some writers, almost a torment. Whenever we’re tempted to back away from the challenge, we can remember our audience. Making a difference to others’ lives is why we write
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Can AI Add to Editing?
Editors craft books to follow the contours of an author’s voice. Insight, empathy, and artistic judgment are still best delivered by a human editor.
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How to Ensure Stores Want Your books
Stores can help sell your book, but ensuring that they want it is your job more than anyone’s.
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A new writing era with AI?
What looks like a challenge might be an opportunity. If an author will work on revisions and breathing life into AI writing, it might be ready for an edit. AI+Edit could get some books written that would never surface in any other way. You could argue those books didn’t need to surface.
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When Stories move, readers Sweat
Getting characters to make choices is a big reason our stories are read and enjoyed. They move toward something or away.
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Make a thesaurus deliver humanity
Knowing what to try, and what to replace, is a very human task. AI did not build The Emotion Thesaurus.
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What to Do with all those Edits
If you have editing in hand and you’re stuck, you’re about to learn more from the life of writing. Revision is everything, and other voices change your creations.
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Creating Books that Are Gadgets
To publishers who will bring your book into the world en masse, your life-saving book is a gadget, lining up alongside many others.
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Make your book a Testament
Just like we call our role an author-publisher rather than self-publisher, I think testament delivers a gravity that making a book deserves.
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