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Imagine if you could push a magic button and make your next book release rise higher in the bestseller lists.This magical button is real.  It’s called an ebook preorder. The ebook preorder tips and strategies I’m about to share here aren’t just pie-in-the-sky theory.  They work.

Have you ever been wandering through the aisles of a book store or browsing the annals of Amazon, looked at all those amazing covers and wonder, “Wow, how do they get that?”   I know we have, so when VJ Dunraven, the owner of Period Images stock cover site invited InD’tale to experience the process first hand, we jumped!  And from that moment on, everything we had ever imagined a cover shoot to

Screenwriting: Take Three
Aaron
Notestine

Reading a bad script feels like a death sentence with a dull guillotine. What is the chief reason for this problem? The lack of meaningful antagonism. Identifying the story’s key antagonizing principle is of chief concern to a screenwriter adapting a novel into a script.

I know I never did, which makes all of what has happened in the past year and a half all that much more of a frustrating and difficult transition. It's challenging enough to juggle being a writer, a mother, and a wife, but add in debilitating pain and days when my brain cannot process in the way it should, let alone write, and you will understand why I've taken up a new title: advocate.

Screenwriting: Take Two
Aaron
Notestine

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a talented screenwriter will only use a couple. To better understand screenwriting, let’s drive a wedge between the meanings for what is descriptive and what is visual. An author is encouraged to write descriptively because the audience responds to the story through the written word.

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