16 episodes
Story Strategy - Coaching for Indie Authors Evident Ink
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Dawn and Nancy - story coaches and editors at indie fiction house Evident Ink - discuss how to make your fiction writing stronger. We explore topics of craft (characterization, plot, pacing, etc.), marketing (audience identification, rules of the genres, and understanding your comps), and more.
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Episode 65: Talking Tropes and Building Better Stories
Tropes are a storytelling convention that help us let readers know what to expect from our books. Learn how to use them, combine them, and twist them to make your stories fresh!
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Episode 64: Marketing Focus - Understanding Comps
Why do you need to understand comps as an author? Because you can't market a book without understanding the market. This episode of Story Strategy focuses on helping indie authors figure out how to market their books based on identifying where they fit with other books in the market.
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Episode 63: What the Heck is Deep Point of View?
The Story Strategy podcast is back, and in this episode, we explore Deep POV - a fiction writing technique that eliminates the narrator and pulls readers directly into the emotion and action of your story.
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Making Readers Care with Melanie Harlow
Join story coaches Dawn and Nancy as we talk with bestselling author Melanie Harlow about how she pulls readers into her characters and builds stories that make them care. Melanie is an expert at developing relatable heroines that we want as our best friends and heroes that are often called book boyfriends by her fans.
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Build a Book Blurb that Sells Your Book
We're rebooting last year's popular blurb episode! Listen as Nancy and Dawn discuss what makes a blurb that sells books -- and how exactly to structure your blurb. Not sure what to include? This episode is for you. At the end, Nancy and Dawn take a listener blurb live and help make it better.
Want more help with blurbs? We're launching our first ever blurb-building workshop, a four-week interactive course that will give you the tools you need to write great blurbs for your books. Get more information by signing up here! -
Mini-Story Coaching Chat with Author Daniela Romero
Learn more about how story coaching works and find out if it's right for you.
In this episode, you'll hear story coaches Nancy and Dawn help author Daniela Romero recover her excitement about a story she'd felt stuck on.
You'll learn about Daniela's unique writing process, and learn strategies to improve the way you work through your own story problems!