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| Creativity as a Super Power
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September 3, 2021
Oakland, CA
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| | Oops! I missed 2 weeks of sending out my newsletter. Last week I wasn't feeling well and had zero bandwidth -- I'm much better now.
The week before there was a tech glitch I didn't notice until after the fact.
Well, I'm back now and have a jam-packed Creativity Sparks newsletter for you today!
Welcome to all our new newsletter subscribers!
I'm here to help you build your author career on your own terms.
A working novelist myself, and a teacher and coach, I care about empowering you with tools, courses, products, and services that give you more options on the menu of life.
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You have an active imagination. Maybe your characters talk to you; or you fall into your imaginary worlds like going next door; or story ideas are always popping into existence around you.
Awesome.
You are creative.
When we tap into our ability to bring ideas out of the ether and into the world by writing them down -- wow -- that's amazing.
Our creativity is a super power.
You can use your power for good in the world -- affecting people with our stories.
You can also use your power to generate lots of marketing options, so that you can find the right one for you.
Using our creativity for marketing is what I wrote about here, on Creativity Coach's LA Bourgeois' blog.
I share some creativity tips you can use when marketing your business -- including your fiction writing business.
Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!
On to the rest of this issue... with lots of quirky, fun book marketing tips for fiction writers to empower you.
In This Issue: - Highlight on Thriller Writer, Lisa Towles: Q&A
- Edgar Allan Poe & Writing Newsletters
- Awesome Book Marketing Tools via BookFunnel
- Book Recommendation: Wonderworks
- Audio Book Giveaway
- Upcoming Events
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| | Q&A with Thriller Novelist, Lisa Towles
Lisa was one of my clients a few years back. So when she approached me recently to share the news of her upcoming novel, I of course said yes!
Lisa Towles has 6 mystery/thriller novels in print and her new thriller, Ninety-Five, will be published in November, 2021, by Indies United Publishing.
Her 2019 thriller, The Unseen, was a Finalist in the Thriller category of the Best Book Awards by American Book Fest and a Winner of the NYC Big Book Award in the Crime Fiction category.
Her 2017 thriller, Choke, won a 2017 IPPY and a 2018 NYC Big Book Award for Thriller.
Read her Q&A here:
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| | Edgar Allan Poe & Writing Newsletters
They connect. I promise.
Here's how.
She writes a free email newsletter called "Poe Can Save Your Life," packed with darkly inspiring self-help tips for writers and other creatives.
And she's written a fun, useful post "What Every Writer Needs to Know About Email Newsletters (They’re Not Going Away)" on Jane Friedman's blog:
*I admit I'm not a Poe fan but I was drawn in by Catherine's fun, unique take on Poe and how we can apply his life experiences to our life.
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| | Awesome Book Marketing Tools via BookFunnel
BookFunnel is an online software system that helps you give away ARCs, participate in giveaways and newsletter swaps to grow your author mailing list. And they're growing all the time. I'm a big fan.
*I'm receiving no compensation to share about them. I just want you to know about my experience in the hopes it helps you with your book marketing.
Firstly, the investment is worth it! I pay $150 per year; but was also happy at the $20 per year plan.
Why do I love BookFunnel?
-- I love using the group giveaways and their recent new feature: author newsletter swaps!
Both are great ways to put my fiction and nonfiction in front of lots of possible new readers at a very affordable rate.
My current group giveaway: (Ends Sept. 15)
I have two newsletters swaps coming!
If you want to see what the swaps are about, you can check out my Nonfiction Books for Fiction Writers here:
You can check out my fiction swap here: Beth's Sci-Fi Mystery Female Protagonist with Some Romance:
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| **A BOOK RECOMMENDATION**
I have been loving listening to Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature by Angus Fletcher.
So insightful. I'm eager to apply the inventions to my fiction. When I do, I'll let you know how it goes.
Fletcher's perspective is new to me and I swear I get chills with each chapter.
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| **Do you love audio books?**
Here's an audio book giveaway!
My husband's wacky thriller, The Torah Codes, -- the audio book format -- is part of a giveaway. Limited time only!
Details here: "Awesome Audio Book Giveaway: Torah Codes by Ezra Barany"
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Have a happy and creative week!
All my best,
Beth |
| | | SAVE THE DATE
Save the date! Tuesday, Sept. 21st! 4:30pm PT
Next week we'll be sharing about our upcoming free webinar on helping you prepare for Nanowrimo and offering a sneak peek of the 60-Day Novel course -- enrollment opening soon.
More details coming soon!
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Teaching Creative Writing in Saudi Arabia
October 2021: I'll be teaching a 3-day intensive on the ins-and-outs of creative writing to beginners.
So cool! This will be my 4th time there.
You can check out the English version of the workshop offer here:
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| | | | You have been reading the Creativity Sparks Newsletter!
Now in its 15th year, this newsletter is a service of my coaching and consulting business, helping genre fiction writers write, market, and publish their books through courses, coaching & consulting, NLP sessions, a 12-month group program, and books to the delight of their readers.
You may share this content intact and with no changes with this attribution:
c. 2006-2021 Beth Barany, Creativity Coach for Writers, www.BethBarany.com
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| ABOUT BETH BARANY
Beth Barany is creativity coach for writers, a teacher, workshop facilitator, and speaker, who helps fiction writers experience clarity, so that they can write and polish their novels, and proudly publish them to the delight of their readers.
Owner of the Barany School of Fiction, an online training hub, Beth takes great interest in how humans learn, create, and grow, and includes all her students’ life experiences, including the ancestors, into the moment.
Want a course to help you prepare to write your novel? Discover the comprehensive Plan Your Novel course here, I teach alongside with award-winning, bestselling thriller author, Ezra Barany.
She's also an award-winning novelist and writes magical tales of romance, adventure, and mystery to empower women and girls to be the heroes in their own lives.
Uncover her Henrietta series here (YA Fantasy) and her Touchstone series here (Fantasy/Paranormal Romance). And her new Sci-fi Mystery here.
beth@bethbarany.com
Barany School of Fiction
Writer's Fun Zone blog
Photo Credit: by c. 2018 Ezra Barany
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