Welcome to this week’s edition of Writer’s Tips. Today’s helpful posts are helpful articles on how to keep readers interested in our books, how to make quick videos, how to make our ‘about pages’ interesting, and some caveats on entering writing contests.
Great article I found on what turns off readers from buying our books.
Anne R. Allen has some great tips for us to beware of when entering Writing Contests
Source: Beware Bogus Writing Contests: 8 Red Flags to Look For
How to make a quick video with Flexiclips from Nicholas Rossis
http://nicholasrossis.me/2019/04/27/flexclip-making-a-video-in-seconds/
Writing “about me” pages by Nicholas Rossis
Writing a book is hard. Still, I’d rather write a 5-novel series than a book blurb. And when it comes to writing a couple of paragraphs about me, aka Author Bio, well, that’s when I rea…
Source: How to Write the Best “About The Author” Page Possible | Nicholas C. Rossis
Another gem I found is editor Jeri Walker’s generous share of character style sheets, FREE download.
Source: #Editor: Story Bible and Manuscript Style Sheet Templates – Word Bank Writing & Editing
DGKayewriter.com 
Great list of resources, Debby! Any ways to reblog this?
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Jas, if you add the ‘press this’ tool in your dashboard you will be able to copy URL into draft in your blog. Alternatively, you can always use the old fashioned way of copying URL and copy and paste a section of a post into a new blog draft. 🙂
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Thank you for the kind shoutout and the great links, Debby 🙂
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My pleasure Nicholas. Thanks for always keeping us informed on your new discoveries. 🙂
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Many thanks for sharing this selection … look forward to perusing them and heading straight of the Nicholas’s … why, oh why, does the blurb fill us all with sheer terror! 😀
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Lol I know Annika. It’s so challenging because we try to pull out the meatiest essence out of 200 – 300 pages of our labor and condense into a mere paragraph, lol. Lots to capture and if we don’t hit the mark we lose readers. 🙂
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Thanks Debby… you can never have too many links when it comes to honing our skills…♥♥
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True dat Sal. ❤ xx
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I always love your tips, Deb and thanks for putting them together!
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Thanks Terri. Glad you find them helpful. 🙂 x
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Always love these tip collections! I’ll get around to them. 🤩
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I try to post things useful posts.I like to bookmark these tips for future reference. 🙂
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Me too. 🙂
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Another awesome share, Debby. Thank you! 🙂
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Most welcome Natalie 🙂 x
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Oh! I haven’t read a single one of those! Thanks for sharing such important posts. I am hopping over right now! 🙂
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Happy to enlighten you Balroop 🙂
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Thanks Debby – I’ve noted and will look at Nicholas’ sites … thanks always useful to have tips … cheers Hilary
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That’s great Hilary. Thank you. 🙂 x
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Very helpful list, Debby! Thank you for sharing. ❤ xo
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My pleasure Vashti 🙂 xx
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Thanks for sharing these posts, Debby. They are packed full of useful advice. I think I might have to spend a bit more time studying the one about the About page. 🙂
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Lol, glad to enlighten you Norah. Yes, I think we could all use some updates. 🙂 x
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Great tips. Thanks, Debby. Have a great week 🙂
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Thanks Carol. Happy week to you too. 😉 x
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