HeyJaredThe Nonprofit Author
Writing for the love of writing, and maybe getting some money for it.
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How Much is Your Story Worth? (opens the original)
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In August 2026, I was in Franklin, TN, at the Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference for the second year in a row. This time, I had my books in the bookstore. I signed up for all the book signings so I could talk about them and sign them for buyers. The bookstore is open to the general public, so readers as well as writers can visit, but most of the traffic was from other writers.What I paid particular attention to was how people reacted to my covers and my presentation.<a class="ima
How Much is Your Story Worth? (opens the original)
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Imagine you are planning to build your perfect writing study in your home. It is going to be the place where you do all your reading and writing. It will be your personal space for creative expression. Would you cut corners and build it cheaply, or would you build it to last?Writers will spend a fortune on courses, templates, books, and special software to get ready to write what is on their hearts and souls, but when it comes to publishing, they take a different approach. They skimp.Why?After a
I Can't Not Know... (opens the original)
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When a character decides they have figured out the mystery and that the solution they have come up with works for them, they stop pursuing the truth. The reader doesn’t.The reader doesn’t even need to know more than the character knows. What separates them, what makes the character stop investigating, is the character making a firm decision to Not Know, because knowing would cost too much.The reader, though, has no skin in the game, and wants to know, because the reader knows that the character
Why: The Importance of Having That One-on-One Conversation (opens the original)
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I had a one-on-one conversation with one of my readers yesterday, and she told me she might not buy the next book in the series. That is like a stab in the heart for a writer. Why?<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="942" src="https://s
Let's Talk About AE (Artificial Encouragement) (opens the original)
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If you’ve been sitting and staring at your screen waiting for the Muse to inspire you, you’ve been doing it all wrong. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nhVg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_au
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