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How Can Self-Published Authors Effectively Market Their Fiction eBooks?Chuck Morgan, Crime Fiction AuthorWith the landscape of publishing constantly growing, you have a wealth of opportunities to market your fiction eBooks successfully. Navigating this dynamic environment can seem daunting, but with the right strategies, you can reach a broader audience and boost your sales. This blog post will provide you with practical tips and techniques that empower you to promote your work effectively, build an engaged reader base, and establish your presence in the competitive world of self-publishing.Understanding Your Target AudienceBefore plunging into marketing strategies, it’s vital to understan...

How Indirect Income Shapes Author Autonomy.Chuck Morgan, Crime Fiction AuthorIt's imperative to understand how indirect revenue streams can enhance your autonomy as an author. By diversifying your income sources beyond traditional book sales, you can gain greater control over your work and make more strategic decisions regarding your career. This approach allows you to explore new avenues such as merchandizing, public speaking, or online courses, reducing reliance on any single revenue source. As a result, you can cultivate a more sustainable writing practice and maintain your creative integrity while navigating the ever-evolving publishing landscape.The Economics of Indirect Revenue Streams...

Can Odd Creative Prompts Reignite a Writer’s Momentum Instantly?Chuck Morgan, Crime Fiction AuthorJust when you feel your creativity stalling, odd creative prompts can serve as a spark to reignite your momentum. These unconventional ideas challenge your thinking and push you beyond your comfort zone, offering fresh perspectives that invigorate your writing process. By engaging with quirky scenarios or bizarre characters, you can unlock new pathways in your imagination and rediscover your passion for storytelling. Explore how embracing the unexpected can ultimately enhance your productivity and motivation as a writer.The Power of CreativityHarnessing the power of creativity is imperative to...

When Roopa debunked the puranic tales of cock-pecked wives as perverse male stratagems to enslave women, her mother was truly alarmed.“These tales of female fidelity have a purpose of their own,” said Janaki to Roopa. “Since nature made men promiscuous, it’s the female loyalty that holds the marriage in the long run, for the benefit of the family and the society as well. These tales have a moral for men as well for they underscore the fact that it’s the wife who sticks through thick and thin with their man and not the lascivious lasses with whom they come to stray.”As Roopa remained unconvinced and minced no words about the fallacy of the proposition, Janaki realized that old wiv...

“Why not look for another match?” said Roopa sounding pleading.“But why reject this one,” Ramaiah seemed persuasive.“No, he’s not my man,” said Roopa wishing that they spared her.“Maybe, he’s a simpleton, but do realize that he’s young and has a long way to go,” said Ramaiah, who seemed to have read his daughter’s mind.‘If something isn’t presentable at its ninety per cent, it wouldn’t be much different either at cent per cent,’ thought Roopa but to buy time she said,“Give me some time to think.”However, after dinner, Ramaiah went up to a brooding Roopa in the verandah.“If you’re not interested in this match, so be it, but if I don’t show you, life a...

What Obscure Mind Tricks Help Authors Rekindle Creativity Fast?Chuck Morgan, Crime Fiction AuthorWith your creative energy sometimes dwindling, exploring unconventional mind tricks can swiftly reignite your inspiration. This blog post investigates unique strategies that can transform your thought process and enhance your writing flow. By tapping into surprising mental techniques, you can unlock your imaginative potential and overcome blocks that hinder your creative spirit. Discover how these obscure methods can empower you to rekindle your passion for writing and produce your best work yet.The Science of CreativityYour understanding of creativity can be deepened by exploring its scientific ...

The universal success of The God of Small Things and the exuberant outburst of Salman Rushdie on ‘regional’ Indian writing call for a dispassionate approach to the genesis of Indo-English writing, nay, all Indian writing. Let us first propitiate the ‘God of Small Things’ before we turn our attention to the ‘Satan of Verses’As Arundhati Roy’s success is of historical magnitude, it would be in order to follow the Gibbonian track to seek its causes. To this enquiry an obvious but satisfactory answer may be returned|: that it was owing to the newness of ‘The God of Small things’, exemplifies by the peculiar and pixilated use of the language to weave a sensuous story in a sinuso...

Being a land of many languages, India’s media is no monolithic phenomenon. Nevertheless, notwithstanding the regional differences, the vernacular media has a uniformity of character. Thus we can broadly categorize the Indian media into the English version and the vernacular variety. The difference between these is more pronounced in the ‘space value’ of the print media than in the ‘airtime quality’ of the electronic variant.Over to the English print media first. The lament of the learned is that sparse is the space for literature in it. And their nostalgia is for the media that propped up fiction through its columns in the golden era of the novel in Europe. After all, weren’t the...

The Indian legend has it that goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswathi respectively bestow wealth and learning on earth. It was the belief that both the goddesses would never bless the same soul. Such was their mythical rivalry that each would deny her munificence to the one under the other’s patronage. In the popular perception, the phenomenon of the rich merchant and the poor pundit was supposedly the manifestation of the goddesses at odds. Thus, the merchant accumulated wealth, however contributing to the commerce, while the pundit enriched society through his knowledge, himself remaining impoverished, nevertheless, both seemed reconciled to the enmity of their respective patrons in heaven as t...

Where to look for the soul of India in print, or now in digital mode? Is it in the writings of those for whom the muse is their mother tongue or those who happen to muse in the alien English? Where to savour the flavour of Indian life in fictional form? Is it in that ‘stronger and more important body of work of Indian writers working in English’ as trumpeted by Salman Rushdie or in the supposedly ‘true to life’ depictions (not the same thing as the examination of the human condition) on the variegate canvas of regional languages penned by the vernacular writers?  And certainly, it is an overkill on the part of the bhasha writers to suggest, as was done, that ‘an...