Three Tips for YA Indie Authors
#1 Hire a maid if you ever want to have clean clothes and dishes again.
#2 Don’t run out of red wine
#3 Keep a large back of M&M’S handy while waiting on critiques
Hmmm… that’s probably not the kind of tips Laura meant when she sent out the topic for this week. Guess I should try again….
Tip #1: Let Mama read it if she wants to but don’t let that count as one of your beta readers or editors. Put your manuscript in front of professionals and others in the business. The cleaner it reads the better it sells.
Tip #2: I don’t care what your teacher or librarian told you, PEOPLE JUDGE BOOKS BY THEIR COVERS. If the cover sucks it won’t sell.
Tip #3: Write daily. Even if it’s just for an hour and even if it belongs in the trash when you’re done. Write it anyway. Don’t use “writer’s block” as an excuse not to write. If you sit down and all you can think of is “Jack should have watched where he was going when he went to get that stupid pail of water. What idiot falls down and cracks his skull? I mean really! And Jill grow a back bone girl. Stop following around some guy.”
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**Check out all the other YA Indie Author’s tips! I’m sure they’re more helpful than mine. (But I doubt they encourage you to eat chocolate ;)**
Patti Larsen Author of The Ghost Boy of MacKenzie House, The Hunted Series and the Hayle Coven Novels.
Courtney Cole Author of Every Last Kiss, Fated, Princess, and Guardian. Also a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles.
Wren Emerson Author of I Wish and a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles.
Nicole A. Williams Author of Eternal Eden, and Fallen Eden. She is also participating in the Glassheart Chronicles.
Fisher Amelie Author of The Understorey, as well as a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles.
Laura Elliott Author of Winnemucca and the upcoming 13 on Halloween
Amy Maurer Jones Author of The Soul Quest Trilogy as well as a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles.
Rachel Coles. Geek Mom. Book Reviewer Author of Diary of a Duct Tape Zombie, Whistles, Beergarden, Plagues, Bees of St. John, and Mushrooms.
T. R. Graves T.R. Graves: Author of Warriors of the Cross.
Cyndi Tefft Author of Between
P.J. Hoover Author of Solstice, The Emerald Tablet, The Navel of the World, The Necropolis.
Alicia McCalla Author of the upcoming science-fiction novel Breaking Free
Heather Cashman Author of Perception
Cheri Schmidt Author of Fateful and Fractured
