HeyJaredMeiMei Fox
My passion is helping people share their stories! Founder & CEO of Your Bestselling Book and The Story Cure Press.
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Curl Up With A Novel Today. It's Good for You (opens the original)
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Need a doctor’s note to justify your reading habit? Here you go!The Washington Post recently published an article about how reading fiction is good for your brain.The research is striking. Studies link reading fiction, in particular, to better social cognition, our ability to understand and connect with other people, and to a richer sense of the world as a genuinely complex place.Why fiction? Because, as psychologist Nick Buttrick of the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains, fiction makes yo
How to Sell More Books Before Your Book Even Launches (opens the original)
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The biggest challenge every author faces today? Selling books.Well, my friend Yrmis Barroeta of My Headquarters. Club sent me a marketing move this week that made me sit up and take notice. The first thing I thought was, “I have to share this with you!!!” So I immediately sat down at my computer to write this newsletter.An author named Ben Meer has pre-sold 10,000 copies of his book. Ten thousand book sales in one week, by the way, is enough to m
Why I Think MacKenzie Scott Just Made a Brilliant Move (opens the original)
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THE NEXT CHAPTER:Weekly Tips for Writing & Publishing Your Bestselling BookMacKenzie Scott, the author and philanthropist formerly married to world’s richest man Jeff Bezos, just announced that she’ll publish her next novel in serial format on Substack, one installment at a time.My hot take: </s
These Bestselling Books Got Rejected Again and Again (opens the original)
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Let me cheer you up with the kind of story we authors always love to hear. That is, a story about books that were rejected numerous times before going on to win prestigious awards and/or sell tens of thousands of copies. Yippee!I share these stories because nearly every author I coach who wants to pursue a traditional publishing deal eventually slams into the brutal wall of rejection. You get dozens of form letters from agents and publishers saying, “Sorry, this book isn’t a fit,” or even worse…
Your New Competition: 300,000 Robot Books a Month (opens the original)
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