Comments on: Writing Tips Worth Carrying Around

By: Melanie Loki

Melanie Loki — Sat, 07 May 2022 23:52:39 +0000

goldmine of useful info here. Not just this post but your entire marketing advice series. I’ve spent days and days slogging through websites with paywalls, or ones with outdated information, or both. Then there’s the hyper specific tips that worked for that one person for some particular reason. Mostly they are useless by virtue of being non-reproducable for the average person. And don’t get me started on the get-rich-quick style clickbait YouTube videos. Those seem to be great for validating the creator’s ego and generating views but not much else. Then I stumbled on a reply on a kdp community forum where, almost like an afterthought, you posted this ridiculous gem of a blog by saying “Oh by the way, here’s everything I know about marketing.” Definite mike drop moment for you.
Anyway I’m rambling, but hopefully you are getting the point that I appreciate your content and your honesty. No one seems to want the truth, they prefer dreaming the big dreams of pushing out low content bull crap and spontaneously skyrocketing to success. But those of us that want to put in the work and actually enjoy producing content and learning about this business, would do well to bookmark your blog and refer to it often, as I have. Thank you.

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By: Joanne Macgregor

Joanne Macgregor — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 12:44:35 +0000

I agree with all of these except the dashes. You can format with or without dashes and both are correct, just stay consistent. AP style says to use the spaces.
I would argue that with ebooks, WITH space gives a much better finish. if you have a longwordlikethis—andnospacebeforenext you get some really ugly and hard to read formatting.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:26:52 +0000

Thank You for the writing tips!
They’re great and very useful.

By: Stephanie Queen

Stephanie Queen — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:47:17 +0000

Great list! Very useful and I’m not a newbie–have 40 novels/novellas published. Learned a few of the things the hard way.
Thank you for sharing.

By: TSumner

TSumner — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:28:35 +0000

Completely agree with: Read/learn in your genre. I’m a HUGE romance reader as well as writer. In fact, I’d write more/faster if I wasn’t reading so many great books. But I understand the genre. HAVE to be a reader where you write, imho. Great blog post!!!

By: Lily

Lily — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:21:05 +0000

THANK YOU for pointing out the em-dash problem. Many U. S. newspapers use the UK style, with spaces, but it is NOT U.S. style for books.