Cover Your Bases
Why Translating Your Book May Require a Cover Change—and What to Do about It Grace Snoke You are expanding your market base and audience by translating your books into foreign languages, and now you’re ready to make a critical decision: do you keep your existing cover design, or do you create a new design that […]
When Word for Word Doesn’t Work
Navigating the Intricacies of Translating Your Books into a Foreign Language Grace Snoke As writers, we choose our words and phrases carefully. Sometimes we agonize over them. Whether it’s coming up with a title for a book, a character using slang and idioms you’re familiar with, or a turn of phrase used in describing a […]
Tried-and-True Methods for Marketing Nonfiction
Grace Snoke Writing your book was the hard part—or at least that’s what you might’ve thought. But now comes an even harder part: promoting it. Marketing can pose a challenge for any author, but nonfiction authors sometimes have a harder time reaching and connecting with their target audience than even fiction authors do. Some of […]
Tapas and Friends: 20Books Sevilla 2024 in Review
Grace Snoke Although there’s a lot to learn at writing conferences, there are two things that only in-person conferences can provide: the energy found from being among other authors and networking opportunities. 20Books Sevilla took the energy and networking found at most 20BooksTo50K® conferences to a new level. Heidi Heinz, Lola Parrilla Heinz, Enrique Parrilla, […]
AI on the Brain?
Additional Resources for Keeping Up with the Latest AI News Technology is constantly changing, yet rarely do we give a lot of thought to what powers that technology. Not so with artificial intelligence, or AI. With the recent surge in AI programs and their capabilities, people in multiple industries have expressed concerns about its potential […]
You’ve Used AI for Years …
… And You Probably Didn’t Realize It. Technology is constantly changing, yet rarely do we give a lot of thought to what powers that technology. Not so with artificial intelligence, or AI. With the recent surge in AI programs and their capabilities, people in multiple industries have expressed concerns about its potential impact on the […]
The Truth Behind Nonfiction: What It Takes to Write about Real Life
Although we spend a lot of time talking about fiction—writing to market, craft books, whether you should plot or pants your novel, and more—there is a whole different genre of writing to be considered that can be just as profitable: nonfiction. Like fiction, nonfiction contains many genres that encompass a variety of topics and writing […]
Romancing Your Readers: It’s Time to Start Sharing About Life Beyond Your Books
When Building a Relationship with Your Fans, It’s OK to Share About Life Beyond Your Books Authors everywhere want fans to love and purchase their books. We spend every day marketing our books to readers and potential readers, but sometimes we forget we need to market ourselves to our readers as well. Fans want to […]