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June 30 Day Social Media Challenge for Authors

June 30 Day Social Media Challenge for Authors – Calling all authors! 🖊️ Are you looking to reach more readers and increase your book sales? Join our 30-day social media challenge designed just for authors! 📈 Each day, we’ll provide you with a simple task to help boost your online Read more…

By Jolene MacFadden Editor, 2 monthsMay 25, 2024 ago

ProWritingAid Versus Grammarly

ProWritingAid vs. Grammarly for Authors: A Published Author’s Take

As a fellow published author, I can break down the pros and cons of ProWritingAid and Grammarly to help you decide which is better for your needs. Here’s a comparison focusing on features helpful to writers and cost:

Helpfulness for Authors

Grammar and Mechanics: Both catch typos, grammatical errors, and offer suggestions for clarity. Grammarly might have a slight edge in accuracy, but it’s a close call.
Style and Readability: ProWritingAid shines here with reports on overused words, cliches, sentence length variations, and a “Readability Score”. It helps you write with variety and keep your audience engaged.
Genre-Specific Checks: ProWritingAid offers reports for dialogue checks, passive voice overuse, and even clichés specific to fiction genres. This is a big win for fiction writers.
Rephrasing and Tone: Both offer suggestions, but Grammarly excels with its one-click tone adjustment feature. This is handy for quickly shifting the formality or mood of your writing.

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By Jolene MacFadden Editor, 2 months ago

Marketing for Writers

A Peek into 2024

A Peek into 2024 and some of the upcoming programs we are creating, updating, and revamping for our customers as well as our fellow writers out there. This is going to be the year of informative, fun and, we hope, bigger participation in our programs. The more we all learn about our crafts the better writers and providers we will become. Then too, the more we share, the bigger and better things we can all accomplish. Since I have recently re-enrolled in college to finish one of my lifelong dreams of getting a master’s degree and perhaps even my Ph.D. in Business Communications and Media, my attention may be spread a little thin. However, it is also going to give me some new material to share. So stay tuned for more posts and videos about that.
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By Jolene MacFadden Editor, 6 monthsJanuary 11, 2024 ago

Marketing for Writers

Getting the Word Out on Your Books

Getting the Word Out on Your Books is hard for all authors. As a self-published author, you know that marketing your book is essential to its success. But with so many places to share your book online, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some of the most popular places to share your self-published book and increase your sales:
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By Jolene MacFadden Editor, 12 monthsAugust 2, 2023 ago