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The Business Side – Self-Publishing for Heroines, Part 4

By Rachel Dacus | July 14, 2020July 14, 2020 by Rachel Dacus

Creating Your Author Business Plan Plan out yours steps for launching and advertising your new book. Phase it on a calendar of events for launch week and month, post-launch month, sustaining sales, discounts and giveaways. If you plan specific promotional efforts, you can calculate cost and project returns on your investment. Include a budget for each phase and each advertising platform you intend to use (Facebook, BookBub, Amazon, Pinterest, etc.). Budget for education: books, courses,…

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Writing What We Choose – Self-publishing for Heroines, Part 3

By Rachel Dacus | July 8, 2020July 9, 2020 by Rachel Dacus

Deciding to self-publish fiction is full of thorny questions. I’ve asked myself tough questions at every stage of creating a novel. Now I ask these thorny questions as early as developing a concept for a new story. These are discussions you might have with your agent if you traditionally publish. As an indie, you have to force yourself to consider how the market will receive what you want to write. It’s all about analyzing genres…

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Self-Publishing for Heroines – Part 2

By Rachel Dacus | June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 by Rachel Dacus

Self-publishing is a vast subject, but I’ve narrowed down my thoughts to self-publishing for writers of women’s fiction. That’s what I know, and there isn’t a lot written about it. This is Part 2 of my blog series “Self-Publishing for Heroines”

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Self-Publishing for Heroines – Part 1

By Rachel Dacus | June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 by Rachel Dacus

Writing will keep you alive, but publishing will break your heart. Let me tell you why you have to learn to endure, as any good heroine must. How to self-publish like a heroine.

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Women’s Fiction Day 2020

By Rachel Dacus | June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 by Rachel Dacus

Women’s Fiction Day is a day to celebrate stories, authors, readers, bookstores, and fans of women’s fiction. Women’s Fiction Writers Association. the founder of this international day, is offering a “Literary Treasure Hunt” — a BIG GIVEAWAY. I’m celebrating with a GIVEAWAY of my book to five readers. Email me at racheldacus@gmail.com if you’d like a free e-book of The Invisibles. The first five people will win a copy. A reader called this story of…

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Time Travel Novels — Escape to Other Times

By Rachel Dacus | May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 by Rachel Dacus

I love time travel novels that focus on love and mystery. Do you need a good read that lets you escape — lifting you out of your worries or concerns. Want to escape for a few evenings that’s romantic, adventurous, and emotionally satisfying? I know I need such stories right now. Here are three books I’ve read that combine all those elements — with a Youtube link to a song for each book!

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Writing Through a Pandemic

By Rachel Dacus | April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 by Rachel Dacus

How to write through a pandemic? My every-damn-day-writing habit, cultivated during National Novel Writing Month three years ago, that’s how I’m doing it. Yes, I have days when my head is full of clouds rather than words. And then I have mornings when the light coming through my East-facing window seems to waft golden ideas into my head and out through my tapping fingers. Or even more likely, when I’m in the shower and a…

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Ideas for Your Global Pandemic Self Isolation Reading List

By Rachel Dacus | March 15, 2020March 15, 2020 by Rachel Dacus

As a public service, here’s a list of books for your global pandemic, self isolation reading — you are reading more now, aren’t you? They’re books I’ve enjoyed recently (though I wasn’t yet in self isolation). Time traveling, sister stories, romance, and mystery When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal — 5 stars.A poignant story of sisterhood and reunion, this well-told story of separated sisters moved back and forth between the present and the…

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Going Indie As an Author

By Rachel Dacus | February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 by Rachel Dacus

About a year ago, I made a momentous decision. I decided on going indie as an author of women’s fiction. It was a choice born of necessity, but it grew to be a good thing for me. I didn’t intend to do it, but I haven’t regretted it, as I’ll explain. My first self-published book, The Renaissance Club, came out in late 2018. It’s done so well under my imprint, Time Fold Books, that a…

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Need Inspiration? Motivation Haikus for Writers

By Rachel Dacus | February 8, 2020February 8, 2020 by Rachel Dacus

If you’re having trouble getting started with your writing today — these haikus might help motivate your creativity. Poise and take a few deep breaths. Read a haiku. Free write and know you can do this! O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! — Kobayashi Issa Translation for writers: Don’t count the steps or the words, just keep writing. Forward progress wins in the end and finishes books. Finishing books empower you as a…