The Writing category has 232 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 523 ratings. The most-rated is Bird by Bird.
Romance Your Brand
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"Genre fiction series are the bread and butter of mid-list writers. For many, they make the difference between a writing dream and a writing career.” (Zoe York/Ainsley Booth, USA Today and New York Times best-selling author) For the first time ever in print, Zoe York breaks down how she plans a series - something she has done 10 times over. Romance Your Brand is an adaptation of an intensive four-week course, now available to authors everywhere. This book covers: High-concept pitches Taglines and blurbs World building and casts of characters Writing the first book in a series Finding comparable series and covers How to write towards future marketing And why all of the above should be considered before you write a single word
©2019 Zoe York (P)2020 Zoe York
Writing for Audio
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Audible editor Katie O’Connor explores the craft of writing for the audio format with Audible Originals authors Samantha Allen, Lauren Blakely, Dennis Mahoney, and Ben H. Winters. Listen in as the authors discuss how they changed their approach to their work with audio in mind. You’ll also hear from two Audible Originals editors - Lara Blackman and Steve Feldberg - about how they collaborate with their authors and where they think the future of audio is going.
©2020 Audible Originals, LLC. (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Copywriting: 4 in 1
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Is writing your passion? Do you want to turn your passion and skill of writing into something extremely profitable? Have you heard about copywriting? Have you ever been interested in copywriting as a career? If yes, stop right here and look no further. This book has everything that you need to know about copywriting and launching a copywriting career. Copywriting is the art of persuading your reader to take some form of action through writing. Your job as a copywriter is to interest your reader in a particular product or service and convince them to buy it, or at least check it out. Since most brands realize the importance of marketing and advertising their products, they are constantly on the lookout for talented copywriters, which makes it a great career option for you. So, it's time to learn about the great art of copywriting! By the end of this book, you will discover… How to become a copywriter and launch your copywriting career today The scope and diversity of copywriting now and in the future whether copywriting is for you or not How to become an efficient copywriter right from the beginning of your career Various types and styles of copywriting and selecting a specialization that you are interested in Different copywriting formulas, respective benefits, and how to use them in your copies How you can find a copywriting job and where you should look for new opportunities Powerful elements that make a good copy great 'Secrets' to enhance your writing style Importance of understanding your product and how to do it Areas that require copywriting How to continuously progress as a copywriter Powerful examples of copywriting 21 copywriting formulas that you can use You see, with this book, you will gain useful insights about copywriting that will help you kickstart your new career. If you are a novice or an aspiring copywriter, you should definitely give it a read. Grab your copy now, and take the necessary actions to get started today! A powerful and effective copy is what brings great results in your marketing campaigns. When writing a sales copy, your aim is to reach your prospects and prompt them to take purchase your products or subscribe to your services. Pro copywriters know how to convey the right message to the target audience via their copy. In this advanced guide to the art of powerful and effective copywriting, you'll learn: What makes a great copy The different types of copywriting The science of persuasion SEO copywriting Neuromarketing and copywriting Combing your copy with a design for exceptional results The most commonly used persuasive words All these aspects will guarantee you'll write an irresistible copy that yields awesome results in terms of sales, profits, and business growth. Grab your copy today if you want to see immediate and lasting results in your income!
©2021 Marc Roberts (P)2021 Marc Roberts
Three Story Method
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Storytelling isn't complicated. We'll prove it to you. Do you have an amazing idea for a novel but you struggle to get words on the page? Maybe the problem isn't writer's block. Maybe you need a writing process. Publishing veterans and best-selling authors Zach Bohannon and J. Thorn share their proven system for developing a plan that will bridge the gap between a collection of random notes and a cohesive first draft. This comprehensive book will teach you the foundations of fiction: Plot, Structure, Genre, Theme, Character, and World. Discover: Why you need a system to finish a first draft whether you plot or pants What Aristotle said about storytelling thousands of years ago that still applies today How studying Star Wars can make you a better writer What some of the most prolific authors believe about the craft How all stories can be reduced to three components Which archetypes create a more engaging reader experience How the Hero's Journey is alike and different than the Virgin's Promise Why you should cast your characters like a movie producer Developed over 10 years and applied on millions of words of fiction, Thorn and Bohannon will show you how to layer your approach and build a fantastic story from the ground up. No more staring at a blinking cursor when you sit down to write! Become a master storyteller today. Three Story Method will transform you from a struggling writer into a career author. Downloadable worksheet and full list of resources included! Get it now!
©2020 J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon (P)2020 J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon
Become a Successful Indie Author
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Demystifying the tangled web of self-publishing to put you on the road to success. This is a motivational guide based on my 2.5 million published words (mostly with Amazon) to help you see past the hurdles that are keeping you from climbing the mountain of success. Nothing is overwhelming once it's been explained. If you are smart enough to write a book, you are smart enough to do everything else needed to make your indie author business a success. This guide has something for every budding author as well as those who have already published but for whom success remains elusive. In this business, there is only one hard-and-fast rule - you must find readers willing to pay for your stories. It starts with the first sentence. You have to write a gripping story that people want to read, wrap a cover around the book, and then do the marketing. There’s no doubt that you can do it. Let me show you how.
©2018 Craig Martelle (P)2019 Craig Martelle
How to Write Funniest: Book Three of Your Serious Step-by-Step Blueprint for Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing
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Take your comedy to new heights. Learn more powerful techniques to make your comedy even more hilarious in this third book from the How to Write Funny series. Harness the power of context, confidence, and a funny group of writers like the pros do on legendary TV shows like SNL or The Simpsons or at comedy institutions like The Onion. Scott Dikkers will show you how it’s done. He’s cofounder and longest-serving editor in chief of The Onion, the world’s most popular humor publication, and founder of the Onion Training Center at the Second City in Chicago. He’s also a number one best-selling humor author, comedy performer, and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. How to Write Funniest lays out the simple steps to make your satire writing, humor writing, funny stories, or stand-up material the funniest it can possibly be by leveraging the brain power of a writers’ room. But that’s just the beginning. How do you lead a team of comedy writers, which insiders often say is like “herding cats”? How do you defeat stage fright, and what is context and why is it the most powerful tool in comedy? Writers Scott has mentored, trained, or hired for their first comedy-writing job have gone on to win several Emmy Awards, written award-winning movies, and become best-selling comedy authors.
©2020 Scott Dikkers (P)2020 Scott Dikkers
How to Write a Novel & Get Published: Fiction Book Writing for Beginners
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Do you have a great story to tell but are unsure of what the next step is? If so, How to Write a Novel & Get Published may be the all-in-one audiobook you have been searching for! Discover: Strategic outlining How to construct a world Self-editing techniques How to get published
©2018 For Beginners Publishing (P)2018 For Beginners Publishing
Fool Proof Outline: A No-Nonsense System for Productive Brainstorming, Outlining, & Drafting Novels
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Build an outstanding outline every time! Fool Proof Outline can help anyone quickly go from idea to first draft. How? By elaborating parts of a story that matter most to you and your readers By offering an organizational system that keeps your head clutter-free By taking the fear and frustration out of writing Fool Proof Outline is filled with just the right amount of brainstorming prompts, both challenging you to engage readers emotionally and propelling your novel toward completion. Character, plot, and scene questionnaires are also included to keep you focused one step at a time. Even the most seasoned writer will appreciate Fool Proof Outline, yet it offers an ease-of-use that will benefit writers of every level. Here's the link to the Fool Proof Outline in both Scrivener and Excel: https://foolproofoutline.wordpress.com/audio-book-links If you've been considering Scrivener, this is a wonderful place to start! You'll also get access to the Fool Proof Outline's online site, where you can ask questions and share your success. No registration necessary. The Fool Proof Outline is the result of an incredible evolution far beyond my earlier outline template, The Ultimate Novel Template. Those familiar with that early version will shout with joy at the improvements. I do!
©2017, 2018 Christopher Downing (P)2018 Christopher Downing
Tension on the Line: The Secret to Hooking Readers
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Does your book bog down in the middle? Do you have pages on which nothing really happens? Do people skip or skim large portions of text? Then you're probably lacking tension. From years of teaching writing, novelist Angela Hunt knows that maintaining tension is one of the most difficult challenges a fiction writer faces. Learn some of the techniques you can use to maintain tension and hook readers so completely that they can't put your book down.
©2014 Angela E. Hunt (P)2020 Angela E. Hunt
The Art of Prompt
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When was the last time you had writer's block? You wanted very badly to write, but you couldn't think of what to write about! This collection of writing prompts will get your creative juices flowing and having you fill up page after page in no time, at all! Here are a few samples: The year is 1910. Adolf Hitler, a struggling artist, has fought off dozens of assassination attempts by well-meaning time travelers, but this one is different. This traveler doesn't want to kill Hitler; he wants to teach him to paint. He pulls off his hood to reveal the frizzy afro of Bob Ross. I'll tell you what I'm going to do, Mr. Bond. I'm going to stick you in a spacesuit with a radio and strap you into one of my cars. Then, while mankind watches, I'll launch you into space. The last thing you'll hear before leaving this earth forever, will be their applause. It's 3 a.m. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "Do not look at the moon." You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon, you all begin watching your next life on the big screen. You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor, and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't tell them you can see. And many, many, many more topics, ideas, and exotic situations that will help you get your next book or screenplay into the world! This collection of writing prompts is a powerful and useful reference to use whenever you need something to kick-start your writing! And best of all, you have no excuse to not get started right away!
©2020 Cameron Monhagan (P)2020 Cameron Monhagan
Lincoln and the Power of the Press
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From his earliest days, Abraham Lincoln devoured newspapers. As he started out in politics, he wrote editorials and letters to argue his case. He spoke to the public directly through the press. He even bought a German-language newspaper to appeal to that growing electorate in his state. When war broke out and the nation was tearing itself apart, Lincoln authorized the most widespread censorship in the nation's history, closing down newspapers that were "disloyal" and even jailing or exiling editors who opposed enlistment or sympathized with secession. In Lincoln and the Power of the Press, Harold Holzer shows us an activist Lincoln through journalists who covered him from his start to the night of his assassination. In a wholly original way, Holzer shows us politicized newspaper editors battling for power and a masterly president who used the press to speak directly to the people and shape the nation.
©2014 Harold Holzer (P)2014 Tantor
Creativity over Perfection
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Do you feel you have a book inside you, but you can’t find that creative spark? Is daily life getting in the way of your dreams? Learn how to stay inspired throughout the process of finishing your book! Listen to Creativity over Perfection: The World Needs Your Book! today and finally hit that publish button this year!
©2018 Heather Lee Dyer (P)2020 Heather Lee Dyer
Authors Should Speak Advance Level
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This book, Authors Should Speak Advance Level, provides powerful advance strategies and insights into how to create even more opportunities for sharing your written and verbal content with people who will benefit. Speaking professionally comes with monetary advantages, too. Sharing your knowledge and expertise from the stage is an effective way to sell a lot of books. Speaking from a stage gives you expert status and inspires people to buy your book and hire you for other speeches. Speaking to thousands of people in audience about your book is exhilarating for both you and your audience. There is a reason why speakers don’t retire.... Are you ready to speak to big audiences and sell your book? Are you willing to imagine yourself living the life of a big-time speaker who sells a lot of books? Great! Then let’s get started!
©2020 Dan Blanchard (P)2020 Dan Blanchard
Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Virtual Worlds
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Artificial intelligence is already embedded in much of our daily lives, and it's increasingly moving into realms that impact authors and the publishing industry. We need to embrace the opportunities and engage in conversations around possible threats in order to reinvent our industry for a very different future. The pandemic of 2020 has accelerated converging technologies and changed human behavior across the globe to favor digital business models. In this book, I discuss current technological and societal trends and consider the opportunities for authors and the publishing industry over the next decade. Writing in the age of AI, including Natural Language Generation models like GPT-3 Copyright law, blockchain for smart contracts, and micro-payments AI-assisted translation Voice technologies, streaming, and subscription Virtual worlds and augmented reality Global, digital, mobile - a wave of new writers It's time to change our business model. If we embrace this wave of converging technology, we can create abundance in our industry, enabling new forms of creativity, growing the market with new products and experiences, and expanding revenue for the entire supply chain. We are creators. We turn ideas in our heads into books in the physical realm. We can use these technologies to surf the wave of change and invent the decade ahead - together. I hope you will join me on the journey.
©2020 Joanna Penn (P)2020 Joanna Penn
Dynamic Dialogue: Letting Your Story Speak (Red Sneaker Writers Book)
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Dynamic dialogue can turn an otherwise ordinary novel into a delightful read, but dull, uninspired dialogue will cause readers to lose interest and try something else. In this book, best-selling author William Bernhardt, renowned for his handling of dialogue, explains his techniques for making characters come to life through their words. He explains the importance of matching character and dialogue, of avoiding dialogue that's “on-the-nose,” and the value of using dialogue to suggest what no one will say aloud. Bernhardt explains how to enrich your story and quicken the pace with dramatic and clever dialogue exchanges, skillful use of dialogue beats, and subtext. The book also includes exercises designed to help writers apply these ideas to their own writing. William Bernhardt is the bestselling author of more than thirty books, including the blockbuster Ben Kincaid novels and Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness, currently in production as an NBC miniseries. Bernhardt is also one of the most sought-after writing instructors in the nation. He is the only person to have received the Southern Writers Gold Medal Award, the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award (U Penn) and the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award (OSU), which is given “in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large.” The Red Sneaker Writing Center is dedicated to helping writers achieve their literary goals. What is a red sneaker writer? A committed writer seeking useful instruction and guidance rather than obfuscation and attitude. Red sneakers get the job done and so do red sneaker writers, by paying close attention to their art and craft, committing to hard work, and never quitting. Are you a red sneaker writer? If so, this book is for you.
©2014 William Bernhardt Writing Programs (P)2014 Babylon Books
Let It Bleed
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Author of the international best seller I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres shares with women the art of memoir writing. For the last 14 years, Pamela Des Barres has been teaching an eight-week women's "femoir" writing workshop. She found that the music-loving ladies who showed up at her door had pent-up stories to tell. Many of them had read her two memoirs, which were wildly personal and deeply confessional, and felt comfortable opening up and experiencing that same freedom of expression. In this book, Des Barres guides women through the process of writing their memoirs. She has developed exercises to help her "dolls" recall, remember, relive, and reveal their memories, transgressions, temptations, sleepless nights and brilliant afternoons, loves and losses, fears and regrets, secrets, sins, and sorrows. The assignments in Femoir have proven incredibly cathartic for her students. Just as intimate as one of her in-person workshops, this book includes some of Des Barres' own stories as well as those of the women she's taught. Every person has an incredible story to tell - they just need to figure out how to tell it. By understanding themselves better through these writing exercises, women learn to be more fearless, free-spirited, and willing to try something new.
©2016 Pamela Des Barres (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
Writing Lessons from the Front
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A complete writer's workshop in a book.... The first 10 Writing Lessons from the Front are compiled into this volume. Lessons cover plot structure, characterization, point of view, evoking emotion, self-editing, creating and maintaining tension, writing historical fiction, plans and processes to get your book finished, self-publishing, writing the children's picture book, and a complete writer's checklist that will take you from prewriting to publication, including details on how to publish on Kindle Direct Publishing.
©2014 Angela E. Hunt (P)2020 Angela E. Hunt
The Liar's Companion
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For 14 years, five-time Edgar winner and MWA grandmaster Lawrence Block wrote a monthly column on fiction for Writers Digest magazine. These columns yielded four books regarded as classics: Telling Lies for Fun & Profit, Spider Spin Me a Web, The Liar's Bible, and now, The Liar's Companion. Listen to The Liar's Companion and gain inspiration to create outstanding fiction.
©2011 Lawrence Block (P)2020 Lawrence Block
Your Author Business Plan
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You are an author. You turn ideas into reality in the shape of a book. You turn the thoughts in your head into valuable intellectual property assets. You understand how powerful the written word can be. Now, it's time to use your words to create a business plan to take your writing career to the next level - whatever that means for your situation. I'm Joanna Penn, and I've been a full-time author-entrepreneur for almost a decade. In this book, I’ll guide you through the process of creating a business plan that will help you achieve your creative and financial goals. It’s relevant for fiction and nonfiction authors, as well as those who want to include other products, services, and income streams. It’s also applicable whether you’re just starting out or if you already have a mature author business. A plan helps at any stage of the journey. Part one covers your business summary and author brand, taking you through the process of deciding the overall direction for what you want to achieve and who you want to serve. Part two goes into the production process around your writing, publishing and licensing, products, and services. Part three covers your marketing strategy and author ecosystem. Part four goes into the financial side of your business, from mindset to revenue and costs, as well as paying yourself now and into the future. The final chapter will give you a framework for simplifying your plan and turning it into achievable steps across a chosen timeline. In each section, I give examples from my own business plan, and there are questions for you to answer, templates, and resources that might help along the way, as well as example business plans for different kinds of authors. It's time to take your author career to the next level. Let's get started on your business plan.
©2020 Joanna Penn (P)2021 Joanna Penn
Kindle Publishing for Entrepreneurs
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Do you want to self-publish on Amazon Kindle and create a passive income stream? Consider writing an eBook that will make you incredible passive income. A process that is literally as simple as publishing and profiting. This audiobook will teach you how to come up with your own great eBook by giving you tips on what and how to write. This is also inclusive of editing, formatting, and preparing a great cover image that looks awesome and sends the right message. Then you will learn how the books are monetized and what Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owner's Lending Library mean for your sales. By scaling the processes you learn in this audiobook, you will be able to generate a passive income for years to come. We are in the digital age of self-publishing, not just for books, but for music, movies, games, and just about everything. You will learn: Chapter 1: Defining Your Audience Chapter 2: Your Own Self-Publishing Platform of Choice Chapter 3: Writing the Book Chapter 4: Formatting Chapter 5: Kindle Quality Content Guide Chapter 6: Marketing Chapter 7: Uploading Your Book to Amazon KDP Chapter 8: Understanding the KDP Select Global Fund Amount Chapter 9: Passive Income Generation Download this audiobook to learn how you can write a book, publish it on Amazon, and start building your own passive income assets.
©2015 Jeffrey Ito (P)2015 Jeffrey Ito