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This guide explores the structural underpinnings of character and characterization in terms of mythic cycles of transformation like the hero's journey and the virgin's promise. Once you understand these patterns, your characters will ring true, and your listeners will believe in them, too.

Get your eBook to stand out above your competition! Have better search engine results and better page rankings by utilizing search engine optimization. This work deals with those all-important keywords: power keywords in book titles and subtitles...using keywords in your Kindle metadata field...choosing the right words in your book description...and more!

In terms of objective reality, a work of fiction is an elaborate lie. No writers think of themselves as liars simply because they write fiction, but that's the fact of the matter. And no other writing guide will admit to teaching you to be a better writer by showing you how to be a better liar - at least in a narrative sense. A good lie rings true. Verisimilitude, or the appearance of truth, is critical in a novel because audiences start the book knowing it is fiction.

You are writing a book...or you have one already published and the OMG moment hits. You have made a mistake (or maybe a lot of them)...screwed up...or you may feel clueless about the tsunami of items you need to deal with. You do not want to fall further into the abyss of book creation and publishing. You need help and savvy guidance.

If you've ever published an book before, then you know that writing and publishing it is less than half the battle. If you can't get it in the hands of your potential readers, your book will go unread and you make no money. If you haven't published a book, you're scared of this happening. You need a proven, step-by-step system to write, market, and promote your book in order to get customers and make money from your books.

This work deals with those all-important book descriptions: how to come up with a clever and unique description, using key power words, how they help promote your cover, the length of your description, words to use and avoid, and more!

Lets face facts, writing fiction and nonfiction, can be hard. You start off with a lot of motivation and begin typing on your keyboard or writing on paper. Eventually, you just get stuck, or as it's known by another term, you get writer's block. In How to Write a Book in 7 Days or Less, we provide actionable steps anyone can take to effectively write a book.

Burke takes authors step by step through the process of identifying their unique personal brands, defining their audiences, clarifying their aspirations and goals, and setting priorities. Once that foundation is established, she walks them through the process of developing a personalized, sustainable, long-term online marketing plan. She offers advice on designing a successful website, building a mailing list of superfans, blogging, creating an engagement strategy for social media, and more.

Performance artist H. O. Tanager holds high hopes for her cross-country trip to Boston: to see great art, to eat delicious food...and to incite mayhem. But once the journey actually begins, it's all she can do to hold on for the ride.

There are a lot of books on story structure, but only The Plot Machine presents a step-by-step guide to designing a story. In clear, precise language, this guide discusses the various types of stories we tell, their specific parts, and how they are assembled. Say good-bye to staring at the blank page waiting for lightning to strike. Just put a few coins in the plot machine, and write better stories faster.

Here we go over the core mechanics of how to make money selling books on Pinterest. (Easier than you think - and far more effective than other social platforms.)

We all know how to tell stories just like we all know our native language, having heard both since we were born. People, however, who study their native language discover there's much they misunderstood or simply didn't know. The same is true of story when we look at it more carefully. With topics that include the theory of story as model, the fractal key to narrative complexity, and the art of the long form, this volume will show you the essence of stories and storytelling.

Becoming a massively successful self-published author isn't easy. Even just one missing link in an otherwise perfect plan can kill your results. The easiest way to avoid these mistakes is to learn from those who have made the mistakes for you and found a way to overcome them and can take you by the hand to show you the principles you need to follow to guarantee long-term success.

Author Dan Howe has produced over 800 titles and sold an astounding 12,000,000+ books in the last decade and a half! This tell-all how-to book reveals his down-to-earth strategies for promoting a new release or reviving sales on an old one. If you want to learn how to create the ultimate kindle money machine, this book will show you how!

In 2012, I read that Amazon.com had ways to self-publish e-books, paperbacks and audiobooks. They would make them available in more than 100 countries via the Internet and produce them when they were ordered. They would mail the paperbacks to the customers at no charge to me! Then, the company would direct deposit the royalties to my bank account. Best of all they paid a 35% to 70% royalty!

Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, are multipublished or aspiring to publication, are independently published or contracted with a publishing house, you need Becoming an Author: Your Quick Start Guide to a Successful Book Launch. This easy-to-listen manual provides the tried, the true, and the new, most effective ways to launch your book successfully. From writing your author biography to post-launch strategies, this thorough, but simple, guide for authors covers every phase of publication from pre-release to postrelease!

Over the past decade, social media has transformed from a fad into a necessity for writers. But for the inexperienced author, trying to make sense of - much less master - the available platforms can be a frustrating experience. The variety of social media options alone is dizzying enough: WordPress, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, YouTube, Pinterest, and more. Whether you're just starting to create an audience or looking to refine your online presence, this guide will equip you with the essential tools you'll need to succeed.

Susan Anderson's You Write, They Pay gives freelance writers (and wannabe freelance writers) the tools to get their writing careers going and the money rolling in now.

You could be just seven days away from record book sales. In Ninja Book Marketing Strategies, you will learn how to attract thousands of readers with 100% free marketing strategies. Whether you're a brand new author or have been selling books by the thousands, you've never seen these book marketing strategies anywhere else. They're stealthy like a ninja, but totally legal and effective.

This is an excerpt from the Military Veterans in Creative Careers book. It includes only the sections on writing books and screenwriting.