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Ask a Question or Check Out Other People's Questions to Help With Writing or Publishing Your Fiction!Do you need help with writing, publishing or marketing your fiction? Can't find the answers you are looking for anywhere else? If you have a question, ask it now. I can't wait to help you find the answers! Your answers will be posted along with other fiction writer's questions below. You will also receive a personal response via email. Your question may even be in the next release of my newsletter to help you and others, so ask good questions that require a lot of thought and can make for a healthy response. Browse through other questions and answers below to see if any of them relate to you to help you with writing, publishing, and marketing. This area is dedicated to help you with writing and publishing your fiction. Like people think alike. You may be thinking about the same thing as someone else. Except you may be the one courageous enough to ask. You can submit your question now to help with writing.
Below are some questions to help you with writing, publishing, and marketing your fiction books. They are in date order (newest to oldest) and are geared to help with writing.
Question: I'm using a pen name. What do I need to know about using a pen name? Answer: Hi Ed, I will try to answer your question to help with writing. Using a pen name is much like owning a business (in fact, that's how the government looks at it). In order to accept any money as an alias or using a pen name, business name, or other fictitious name, you mustregister it with your state. - Jason.
Question: I was wondering how Lulu goes about helping us publish our books? Do they proof read the novels,edit and make actual hard cover copies for freeor does that part cost money? Or is it just a downloaded version and no actual book covers? Answer: First, Lulu doesn't publish your books...
Question: What is the average time it takes for people to start purchasing your ebook? Answer: Here's the answer to your question to help with writing and publishing. It all depends on how you are promoting your ebook. If your ebook is a larger work such as a novel, you should have an optimized website dedicated to your ebook. This will help drive traffic to your sales page. Word of mouth, of course, is the fastest, easiest, and most inexpensive way to advertise your book. Blogs and RSS also help get your site listed in search engines quicker and help with writing and your marketing efforts directly. [People will give you suggestions write on your blog.] You should also tease potential buyers with a few pages or chapters of your book to get them interested. Then they will have to buy it to find out what happens. It's difficult to determine how fast people will start buying your ebook. But I hope these suggestions help increase your odds at making a faster sale. Best of luck with your ebook. Hope this does help with writing and publishing. - Jason.
Question: a. Do you have any information that deals with getting your books reviewed, for print books and e-books [to help with writing]? b. Since my books are on Lulu.com and they don't have the ISBN#, my stories only sell on that site. Do you have any other suggestions to get my work out there? c. I have had promises of people purchasing my books, but so far.........NATA. I think people do a lot of talking and nothing else, meantime, my books are just sitting. I can't afford to pay someone to publish my work. Besides, you have to watch out for that too. I have more stories that I would like to put up on LULU, but if the first four aren't doing so well, and not because they are poorly written or lack illustrations, I find it hard to keep adding more books to my site. What kind of advice would you give to writers who are in the same situation to [help with writing]? Boy, I am so full of questions today. Hope you don't mind? Answer: [I never mind long winded questions to help with writing since I'm long winded myself.]I'm still experimenting with my first book right now...
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