Resources
WRITING:
Storyboard Grid for Outlining:
How to Outline Your Novel with the Save the Cat! Beat Sheet
Cheat Sheets For Writing Body Language
Writing With Color – a Guide To Writing Diversity And Representation
Brandon Sanderson’s writing lectures on YouTube
Craft Essays by Chuck Palahniuk
How to avoid repeating ‘I’ in first-person writing
First Person vs. Third Person: How to Use Different Points of View
Tips for translating emotion into written body language
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression (book)
Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book (book)
You just don’t get it, do you?
Winning Writers (a great resource for all things writing and publishing)
BETA READERS, CRITIQUE PARTNERS & EDITORS
HeyBeta (subscription required)
QUERYING:
How to Write a Synopsis of Your Novel
Publishing And Other Forms Of Insanity
A Complete Guide To Query Letters
Submittable (often used for short stories, etc., but sometimes for novels)
SELF-PUBLISHING
This wiki has a tremendous amount of linked resources for self-publishing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfpublish/wiki/index/
Create a perfect ePub or Mobi for Amazon Kindle with Sigil from Word – YouTube
Start Here: How to Self-Publish Your Book | Jane Friedman
5 Mistakes I made As An Indie Author
Audacity for Audiobook Production
Record Your Own Audiobook For Audible
BOOK FORMATTING/COVERS
Facebook: Book Cover Design Marketplace
MARKETING
15 Free Press Release Sites for Authors
Free Amazon Book Advertisement Course: Amazon Ads for Authors
The Indie Author’s Guide to Free Reviews
Book Marketing Strategies For Your First Book
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