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Thx so much for inviting me to share in the Need to Know/Indie Author episode @nymeriapublishing.bsky.social 🎤 We discussed lots of tips for new authors starting out, & my latest book, GRANDMA YOGINI.
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What I Wish I’d Known Before Publishing My First Book Hi everyone! I hope you're all well. Today, I’m going to talk about publishing my first book. What I Wish I'd Known Before I Published My First Book Publishing my first book was one of my life's most exciting—and terrifying—moments. I'd spent months (okay, years) dreaming of seeing my name on a cover. But when the day finally came, it wasn’t quite the fairy tale experience I imagined it would be. There’s so much I wish someone had clued me up on before I hit “publish.” So, below, you'll find some things I learnt the hard way—so you won't need to.

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Hey, creative. I need you to know something.

I’m proud of you. Even flowers must fight through cement to reach sunlight, and you being here matters. I am proud of YOU. #writers #artists

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“Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.”

Bob Ross wouldn’t lie about this, and neither would I.

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Bread dough needs time to rest, or it won’t rise to all its fluffy glory.

Creative, you need rest, too.

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Don’t be your own bully.

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You absolutely need other eyes on your work before it’s released to the world—but before then, you need to keep it hidden. Here’s why.
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It wasn’t cringe, creative.

Neither are you. It’s time to leave that embarrassment behind. #adviceforwriters #adviceforartists

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Living a full life will help fill your stories!
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How to Write a Book That Nicole Kidman Will Turn into a Limited Series The goal of any author isn’t to write the next great American novel or take home a Pulitzer Prize—it’s for Nicole Kidman to turn their book into a ...

"As for your book’s setting, this one is simple. The coast. Any coast—as long as there’s a shoreline to stare at wistfully, odds are good that a Zoom meeting with Nicole is in your future." - Tom Smyth
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Here's your sign, creative: That piece you've been editing and refining and working on forever? It's time to call it done. #createit22 #adviceforwriters #adviceforartists
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Stuck in the mud? Getting unstuck is never pretty—but if you want to get up to speed, you've got to break free.
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Five Great Quotations about Fiction “What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and...

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Five Quotations about Writing as Self-Discovery “What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.” – John Mortimer “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anaïs...

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Five Great Quotations about Passion for Writing “A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.” – Eugene Ionesco “You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a...

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Five Great Quotations about Originality in Writing “There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.” - Raymond Feist (for the corollary, see Lawrence Watt-Evans below) “There is no idea so stupid or h...

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Five Great Quotations about Short Stories “The short story is as diverse and exciting a form as the novel, offering the condensed satisfaction of a good poem.” - Sean O’Brien “Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your s...

“Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Avoid temptation to create author surrogate One temptation to avoid when creating characters is to use an author surrogate. An author surrogate is a character who the writer models after himself, such as Jubal Harshaw is author Robert A. Heinle...

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Examples of how to use e.g. vs. i.e. If these two abbreviations are Greek to you, you’re not alone. But first things first: They’re Latin, not Greek. e.g. is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase exempli gratia, which translates to “for e...

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Five Great Quotations about Poetry “All a poet can do is warn.” - Wilfred Owen “I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.” - Minnie Bruce Pratt “And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unk...

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This is what reading is like to me. It’s finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. – Beverly Lewis Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an era where you face heavy competition, your writin...

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This is what I love about novels – both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are. – John Green Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an era where you face heavy competition, your writin...

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This is the time to remember that I’m the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit. – Maya Van Wagenen Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an era where you face heavy competition, your writin...

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Think small...If you can’t think small, try philosophy or social criticism. – Richard Hugo Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an era where you face heavy competition, your writin...

Think small...If you can’t think small, try philosophy or social criticism. – Richard Hugo
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. – Muriel Rukeyser Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an era where you face heavy competition, your writin...

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The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them. – Tahereh Mafi Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an era where you face heavy competition, your writin...

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Five Great Quotations about Revising Your Book “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” - Stephen King “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will ...

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The truth, or success, of any writer’s story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. – Gail Caldwell Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an era where you face heavy competition, your writin...

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My books have all been very deeply felt. You don’t spend eight years of your life working on a trendy knockoff. – Bret Easton Ellis
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