Author name: Tracy

9 High Level Hacks to Preserve Your Indie Revenue in Our Current Hard Times

/ Finance, Money Management & Frugality / 5 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

Indie published book sales are slumping right now, for everyone. Even if COVID-19 isn’t completely in our rear-view mirrors, most of the world is moving out of the severe restrictions we’ve suffered through for two years. That relaxation coincided with the arrive of spring. Now it’s summer, and everyone who turned desperately to reading fiction […]

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5 Reasons Why Ditching This Sentence Structure Will Massively Improve Your Fiction

/ Narrative Techniques / 5 minutes of reading

I wince every time I see this structure in fiction. Do you use it? The structure goes like this:  Walking to the window, he watched the seagulls soar over a silvered sea. An innocuous sentence? Actually, it’s a howling clunker of sentence, and I’ll explain why in a minute. For now, I want to draw

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Here’s Why You Should Add Backlist Maintenance To Your Indie Vocabulary

/ Uncategorized / 4 minutes of reading / 3 Comments

Authors often raise their brows when I mention “Backlist Maintenance”. Maintaining your backlist doesn’t sound sexy. For authors with only a handful of releases, backlist maintenance isn’t a thing. But when you get into the realm of 20 or 50 or (like me) 120+ published titles, backlist maintenance becomes critical. Here’s why. Indies make money

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7 Google Search Hacks That Help Indie Authors Get The Job Done

/ Technology, Tools & AI / 3 minutes of reading

To “Google something” has crept into the language and is now a formal euphemism for searching online. However, Google can do a lot more than just regurgitate search results.  There is a ton of useful tools that Google will invoke to provide answers directly on the results page.  Google will also provide links to sites

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The Best Lifestyle To Maximize Your Creativity – 2022 edition.

/ Creativity / 6 minutes of reading

I first posted about creatives’ lifestyles back in 2018, and now I’m bringing it forward and updating it, because this topic gets very short shrift when it comes to talking about a creative career. We’ve all survived the first two years of a global pandemic when all of us have been in lockdown for most

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Even More Oh No!

/ Housekeeping / 1 minute of reading

The image, I’m afraid, is not a metaphor. Yesterday, full of energy and determination, I headed out into the garden to cut a new bed for our veggies this year. Forty minutes later, I found myself flat on my back, with my arm screaming at me. I had fallen, and tried to save myself with

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