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Title	:	Writing Short Stories to Promote Your Novels (Writer's Craft #7)
Author	:	Rayne Hall
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 101 pages
Published	:	February 20th 2014 by Scimitar Press
Categories	:	Language. Writing. Nonfiction

Writing Short Stories to Promote Your Novels (Writer's Craft #7) Kindle Edition | Pages: 101 pages

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A short story is the perfect tool for promoting your novel. Readers who love your story will look for more fiction by the same author.

Here are some ideas: post a story on your website as a free read or give it to another writer of the same genre to display it on their website. Publish it as a short free ebook, bolstering your list of published books. Offer it as a giveaway on blog tours. Submit it to a magazine, ezine or anthology where it will get read by lovers of your genre.

This book is structured like a workshop, based on an online class I taught. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll build your story step by step, from the spark of an idea to the polished version that will wow your readers and make them eager to buy your novel.

For powerful promotion, writing a great story is not enough. It needs to be a particular kind of story to target your audience, win fans and sell books.

To get the most from this book, you should have at least one novel to promote, whether traditionally or indie-published. You need to have mastered the basics of the fiction writer’s craft, though not necessarily of the short story form.

If you’re a fiction writing novice or are still working on your first novel, it’s too soon to follow this programme, although you may find useful inspiration.

If you enjoy writing, and if you have a novel you want to promote, you’ve come to the right place.

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Edition Language:	English
Series:	Writer's Craft #7

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I'm an epic fantasy doorstopper writer, so when several different people I respect all came to me and said 'you should submit a story to this or that anthology' and I read the submission guidelines, it was like...erm...5,000 - 10,000 words?[*I don't think I ever wrote anything under 250,000 words, and that was the 'book' I published in the fourth grade...*]I found this short 'how to' book to be really helpful. It suggested ways to come up with story ideas and characters that would focus on

I'm a little iffy on this one. I'm not sure I would ever be able to do exactly as she says to promote a book or series I was working on with short stories set in that world. I personally am not a fan of such stories as they're more often than not too short and over with before I have a chance to connect with or care about anybody in them. I'd have trouble doing this myself without making that into a very long novella or its own novel. Or giving away things I'm not ready for in them. Still, I

Had some good ideas. Glad I read it. The first short story she shared was kind of weak which made me doubt some of her advice, but her other ones were pretty good.

This was a succinct, eye-opening book that delivered just what the title promised. It's written as a workshop, so start reading when you have an afternoon to kill...and at the end of that time you'll probably have a short story ready to send out into the world to draw readers in to your novel.The only negative point is that the second half of this book simply consisted of a few of the author's short stories. Since I got this book for free with Kindle Unlimited, I didn't care --- Hall had already

This book is informative. It tells how to write short stories based on one's current novels to use for promotion. She offers many ways to use the story for promotion to pick and choose from. From a marketing point of view, it is very sound advice. But as a bonus to explaining all this, she also gives ways to write a short story. Ms. Hall speaks of the creative half of the mind and the editor half. Something that always battles inside me. This book is a win-win in my corner.

Rayne Hall writes fantasy and horror fiction, some of it quirky, most of it dark. She is the author of over sixty books in different genres and under different pen names, published by twelve publishers in six countries, translated into several languages. Her short stories have been published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies.After living in Germany, China, Mongolia and Nepal, she has settled

I love Rayne Hall's Writing tips books. For instance Word Loss Diet , Twitter for Writers or Writing Vivid Settings are brilliant. does have some good, practical ideas about how to write stories tied into your novel and best ways to use them to promote your novels (whether on website, as giveaways, in e-zines or anthologies, in an exchange deal with other writers or bloggers or publishing them yourself. I have already been doing a many of the things recommended in the book - having been writing