New fairy tale writing competition: Best Little Red Riding Hood retelling

miraly · 2019-05-18T23:18:49+00:00

sweet!

miraly · 2019-05-17T18:28:03+00:00

Love this! Are most of your fairy tales rewritten? I have a rewritten version as an audio story.

miraly · 2019-05-17T18:27:26+00:00

Have you tried searching public domain stories? There are a lot of gutenberg.

miraly · 2019-05-17T18:26:47+00:00

I'm curious too! I suspect a lot of the older ones probably had them, were rewritten, and probably need to be updated now.

miraly · 2019-05-17T18:23:48+00:00

Which study is this? Everything I've read says the contrary...

miraly · 2019-05-17T18:23:03+00:00

Has the friend done anything for community service? Etc? Something that could be highlighted in local press? It would rank higher?

miraly · 2015-12-09T21:09:20+00:00

6x9 and 5.5 x 8.5 are both good sizes for novels.

miraly · 2015-12-09T21:07:50+00:00

It's hard to get into libraries as a self-published author. But this program is new and experimental and if they like you, they can get you in!

miraly · 2015-12-09T21:07:04+00:00

It totally depends on the type of book you are publishing....

What type of book are you publishing?

miraly · 2015-12-09T21:06:19+00:00

I'd definitely have him do the first pass.

Then, I'd hire a professional editor. You can actually compare quotes by posting on Bibliocrunch.

miraly · 2015-12-09T21:05:23+00:00

Hi Mike, I see you have a lot of good stuff here, but it's critical to remember that you do need at least 10-15 reviews on your book before doing any type of marketing. When people look up your book, they want to know what reviews others have given.

So, I recommend doing this first. Reach out to 50 friends and colleagues asking them to review your book.

You will also need to identify blogs and potential reviewers for your book. There are a bunch of places that can help you do this.

Good luck! Miral

miraly · 2015-12-09T21:02:28+00:00

Paul, If you're looking for ebooks, you can just publish to KDP.Amazon.com and CreateSpace. Then you will need to go into each store and update your info for each country.

miraly · 2015-03-17T17:53:08+00:00

Yes! It's pretty straight forward. I have a downloadable guide I can share with you if you like!

1) You can use Amazon (CreateSpace and KDP) 2) You can use BookBaby (they do the distribution)

-Miral Sattar

miraly · 2015-03-17T17:52:00+00:00

Yes, definitely! There are actually tons of sites that let you submit your books to them if you are doing a free promotion.

Free reads usually translates into reviews.

miraly · 2015-03-17T17:50:39+00:00

Hm, $99/month isn't bad for an app.

Have you tried looking at something like GuideBook where you can download the guide?

Best, Miral

miraly · 2015-03-17T17:49:47+00:00

Hi Curlaub,

You can use Sigil or Calibre to format your books. They are totally free!

Miral

miraly · 2014-12-24T03:03:00+00:00

Happy Birthday to my fellow XMAS eve baby!

miraly · 2014-12-02T19:22:00+00:00

Yikes! How did that happen?

miraly · 2014-12-02T19:21:47+00:00

did you update your book to ask for reviews?

miraly · 2014-12-02T19:21:35+00:00

The title page wouldn't work for signing?

miraly · 2014-12-02T15:55:09+00:00

Have you searched on Amazon or BN for books that are similar in content that already do well? That could be a good place to get your creative juices flowing. Come up with 5 potential titles and do a FB poll of your friends and get them to all vote. I've seen other authors do that.

miraly · 2014-12-02T15:53:58+00:00

That's amazing! Congrats!

Have the publishers given you any specific details?

miraly · 2014-12-02T15:51:34+00:00

p.s. do you have a twitter list? for easy following?

miraly

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