by William Miller | Jul 21, 2017 | Writing
Your book description will make or break your sales. Your book’s description (sometimes called a blurb) is probably the most crucial step in the sales funnel. From a customer’s perspective, the book buying process is fairly simple: first they check out the...
by William Miller | Jul 16, 2017 | Writing
Let’s get one thing straight up front; cover design matters. Indie authors make the mistake of assuming book cover doesn’t matter as long as the writing is good. I blame the well worn saw about ‘judging books by covers’. The fact is, whether you are...
by William Miller | Jul 2, 2017 | Writing
NOBLE MAN is #2 on Amazon! I’m celebrating by giving away the first part of the Jake Noble Saga FREE. If you have been waiting to find out what all the fuss is about, now is your chance to download the first three chapters of Noble Man for free. Just let me know...
by William Miller | Jun 25, 2017 | Writing
Learn the 3 elements of a good Sales Funnel Last week I talked about how important it is to learn book marketing secrets if you want to make a living as an author. In short, publishing houses are no longer in the business of book marketing. They might publish...
by William Miller | Jun 18, 2017 | Writing
Learn the Art of Selling Fiction Most beginning authors, and many seasoned pros, feel that book marketing—along with all the other various business aspects of selling books—is unimportant. Writers mistakenly believe that, if they are talented enough, the book...
by William Miller | Jun 3, 2017 | Writing
Turkey City Lexicon Part Three: Plots Part Three of the Turkey City Lexicon focuses in on Plot. As our regular readers know, Literary Rebel is big on knowing where you are going before you get in the car, but there are a lot of would be authors out there who like to...
by William Miller | May 30, 2017 | Writing
Larry Correia, author of Monster Hunter, engaged in a flame war on the interwebs today. Everything he said was true. In other news, we need more Monster Hunter ! For the thoroughly confused: This was in reply to a FB...
by William Miller | May 28, 2017 | Writing
Turkey City Lexicon Part Two This is Part Two of the Turkey City Lexicon. This guide covers the worst of the fiction writing sins. It is a great place to start if you are trying to make your writing better. If you want to write a novel, and you don’t want...
by William Miller | May 25, 2017 | Writing
Turkey City Lexicon The Literary Rebel Crew has been getting a lot of requests for reviews. So many in fact that we are all too busy either reading, writing, or releasing books to do any reviews over the last few weeks, but fear not, we’ll start posting our thoughts...
by William Miller | Apr 26, 2017 | Writing
Concept is a word that gets tossed around all the time at author conventions, college writing courses and in any book on craft you happen to pick up, but what is it exactly? For the purpose of this article, I want you to think of concept as the world in which your...
