Marketing tips for reaching your first readers

Nathan Bransford, TVWriter™’s favorite publishing know-it-all has a video for us this week, in which he reaches out to his fave book-marketing expert David Gaughran.

So sit back, relax, and watch this scintillating discussion of why and how you should use digital ads to reach new readers and other (and slightly less daunting) SEO topics.

Nathan has a transcript of this entire convo for those of us who are too impatient to watch and listen. You can find it right here. read article

HOW TO GET STARTED WRITING THAT BOOK

by Caimh McDonnell

LB’S NOTE: As of this particular moment (as opposed to that non-particular moment, I suppose), Caimh McDonnell (“comedian, writer, Irishman,” as his blog tells all who discover it) is my favorite novelist because of his ability to make genre detective stories read like literary fiction.

So imagine my surprise when I discovered that his skill is about as far from accidental as can be. Dood not only knows exactly what he’s doing, he’s happy to share that knowledge with the rest of us grunts.

So listen, listen good. No, not with your ears. He’s a writer, dammit, not an AI voice. Anyway: read article

Herbie J Pilato Takes Us ‘Beyond Star Trek’

Image via SciFiMoviePage.com

by Herbie J Pilato

Along with popular television shows such as The LieutenantStar Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, affectionately known in many sci-fi sectors as “The Great Bird of the Galaxy,” created a number of other series beyond his most well-known franchise.

Many of Roddenberry’s non-Trek significant TV properties materialized after the initial demise of what is now known as The Original Series, and prior to the development of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which ignited and expanded his Trek universe into feature films in 1979.

The more recognizable of these non-Trek projects were several unsold made-for-TV science fiction pilots including Genesis II, Questor, Planet Earth, Strange New World, and Spectre….. read article

How to Stop Overthinking Everything and Find Peace of Mind

We’ve said it before (most recently here), and now we’re saying it again: The dreaded overthink keeps rearing its ugly head in all our lives. Here’s another helpful look at the problem and, more importantly, how to solve it.

How to Stop Yourself from Overthinking Everything
by Thorin Klosowski

We all overthink aspects of our lives. Whether it’s decisions, regrets, self-worth, or general worries about the future, we’re so often stuck inside our own heads that it feels like there’s no way out. Here’s how to quit overthinking everything and move on. read article

“All Our Pain”

Found on Reddit this morning.

(Click within the black box if this doesn’t start automatically.)

All our Pain in one video let me know wt u dint experience in the comments section from r/funny read article