By Kim Batchelor on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 in Advertising, Marketing, Self-Publishing. No Comments
Self-publishing is becoming an increasingly popular way get your book out there. But, once it is out there, how do you get people to actually buy and read it? How do you get them to take notice? With self-publishing, also comes self-marketing. Here are some of the ways that you can market yourself and your works to […]
By Kim Batchelor on Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 in Marketing, Research, Uncategorized, Writing. No Comments
When you are trying to self-promote your novel, getting people interested can be hard. One of the tried and true methods to do so is to make a trailer for your book, much in the same way there are trailers for movies. But, the average person may not have ever seen a book trailer. This […]
By Kim Batchelor on Sunday, November 19th, 2017 in BookHive Corp, Novels, Writing. No Comments
With National Writing Month coming to an end, many of you may be burned out. Writer’s block can be hard to overcome. One of the worst things to do can be to try to force yourself to write a section, paragraph, or idea just because you really need to get it done. You won’t have […]
By Kim Batchelor on Thursday, November 2nd, 2017 in BookHive Corp, Novels, Writing. No Comments
Happy November! Many of you may know that November is National Novel Writing Month, colloquially known as NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is a time in which all writes are encouraged to write that novel they have been putting off. The typical word goal for NaNoWriMo is at least 50,000 words to be written during the month of […]
By Kim Batchelor on Saturday, October 28th, 2017 in BookHive Corp, Research, Writing. No Comments
I’ve really been enjoying writing these grammar-based blogs because they not only help you, dear readers, but they also help me to refresh my memory and expand my knowledge on these topics. So, I sincerely hope you are enjoying them as much as I am! Today’s topic is the proper use of colons and semicolons. […]
By Kim Batchelor on Saturday, October 14th, 2017 in BookHive Corp, Research, Writing. No Comments
One of the most confusing types of punctuation to use and become comfortable with are dashes and hyphens. It is my hope to provide you with a helpful guide—so that you too may become a dash master. Rule 1: Hyphens and Dashes are not interchangeable in formal writing (do what you’d like in your personal […]
By Kim Batchelor on Saturday, September 30th, 2017 in BookHive Corp, Novels, Research, Writing. No Comments
Writer’s love description. When describing a given object or person a writer can use as many descriptors as they would like. This is because English allows for multiple adjectives to be listed consecutively. It was a beautiful, small, shiny, round, old coin. It was a big, dirty, old, red, wooden barn. In these examples there […]
By Kim Batchelor on Saturday, September 9th, 2017 in BookHive Corp, Research, Writing. No Comments
You can only get away with so much he said, she said in your story until your readers are confused as to who is talking. This is even more true if the two characters use the same gendered (or gender-neutral) pronoun. But, on the other hand, it can be a little awkward to keep restating […]
By Kim Batchelor on Saturday, August 26th, 2017 in BookHive Corp, Marketing, Research, Self-Publishing, Writing. No Comments
This previous weekend, August 18-20th, I was lucky enough to attend the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference in New York and represent BookHive as an exhibitor. The conference itself ran for three days, Friday through Sunday, with a few early events taking place on Thursday, and featured many speakers, talks, tables, and pitch opportunities. I, unfortunately, […]
By Kim Batchelor on Sunday, August 13th, 2017 in BookHive Corp, Research, Writing. No Comments
If you aren’t living with a child or speaking to one regularly, you probably don’t know what one sounds like. You may have a vague concept, but with no direct source, unfortunately it’s impossible to know if this concept is accurate. One of the best ways to make sure you aren’t misrepresenting the speech of […]