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Book Review & Contest Insights from Real Reviews and Submissions
What separates great books from the rest? Below are articles with insights from real reviews and contest submissions—what works, what doesn’t, and how to improve your book. You’ll also find a wide range of articles covering writing, publishing, marketing, and more. Each article has a Comments section so you can read advice from other authors and leave your own.
Why Some Books Win Awards (And Most Don’t) — Insights From Real Contest Submissions New!
What separates award-winning books from the rest? After evaluating contest submissions across a wide range of genres, certain patterns become clear. Some books consistently rise to the top. Others, even with strong ideas and clear effort behind them, fall short. The difference is rarely dramatic—it...
What We’ve Learned From Reviewing Hundreds of Thousands of Books (And Why Most Don’t Stand Out) New!
After reviewing and evaluating books across thousands of submissions over the past two decades, certain patterns become impossible to ignore. Some books immediately stand out to reviewers. Others—even well-intentioned ones—fade into the middle or fall short. The difference is rarely luck. It comes down to...
Tips to To Writing The Perfect Blog
There are many different ways to write creative blogs. It is important to know some of them in order to gain the confidence you need in your writing.
Research Often
One important tip is to read and do research online. What are other writers blogging about? Learn from them and gain more inspiration and great ideas for your own blog.
Keep A Journal
Make sure you keep a daily journal where you jot down you immediate thoughts and then return to them at the end of each day and see what you have. From these you can now work out what you will be writing on your blog the following day.
Keep Writing
Never ever stop writing. If there are a couple of failures, know that for these failures there will be many more successes because you have never given up.
Edit and Keep Editing
Make sure that you always check and double check your work and writing style and make sure that your language and grammar skills are top of the line.
Be Reasonable About Your Work
Never go over reasonable expectations. Keep in mind that it is always the quality of your work that is expected, not the quantity.
Network With Others
Use your blog as a means of connecting with other people. Those who connect with your blot connect with their blog. In this way you can share your ideas and come up with new inspiration.
Ask For Feedback
Never shy away from feedback. Feedback will let you know how your blog is doing and if there is anything you need to do differently or if you are on the right track.
Self-Promotion
Make sure to get the word out about your blog and promote it on all of the social networks. This will get more traffic to your blog and you'll get more comments and feedback, which in turn will give you more motivation and more creativity for your blog.
Each day take your journal and jot down new things that you have learned or gotten to know or you can use on your blog. Then work out these ideas and use them for your blog. Keep in mind that what you write on your blog can be enhanced with photos and videos; just make sure that you can use them legally. Soon you will see that your blog traffic starts rising and people are talking about your blog.