911 helps for authors!

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Author Writing Helps (Items dealing with writing, plotting, editing, and revision etc.)

Tips about world building

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/guide-to-literary-agents/tips-on-world-building-for-writers-how-to-make-your-imaginary-world-real

Fantasy Name Generator

http://fantasynamegenerators.com/

How to keep your characters frustrated.

http://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/2009/04/what-characters-want-art-of-frustration.html

Learn from Peter Jackson on doing epic battle scenes

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/10/23/peter-jackson-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies/

Showing vs Telling

http://www.scribendi.com/advice/how_to_avoid_telling_writing_in_fiction.en.html

How to print out your scrivener index cards

http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2111397&seqNum=8

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Publishing Helps : (Items dealing with layout and design)

All about ISBN’s: http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2010/03/isbn-for-self-publishers-answers-to-20-of-your-questions/

How to do a manual interactive table of contents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BYd5YCLo_A

Get help on laying out your books http://www.bergsland.org/

How to make a 3D and boxed set cover(s) using a free program called GIMP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihaFgtsJPhM

10 Free places to promote you book! http://angiesdiary.com/articles/top-10-free-book-promotion-sites/

Turning your book into a graphic novel?

http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2014/03/22/graphic-novels-nathan-massengill/

http://nathanmassengill.com/nam2/why-authors-should-adapt-their-books-into-graphic-novels/

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Entrepreneurial Helps: (Items dealing with legal, issues, reviews, marketing, promotion, exposure, discoverability etc.)

A Tax Cheat Sheet for Kindle eBook Self-Publishing

Publishers of Christian Speculative Fiction.

Need places to review your book?

http://publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2014/08/list-of-online-reviewers-who-accept.html

https://storycartel.com/

How to make a website. Thanks to Hailey Dawn Stratton for the suggestion

https://sitebeginner.com

Just write the next book is bad advice if no one knows about the first.

http://noorosha.com/readermagnets/

A place to get low cost net galley access

http://www.patchwork-press.com/class-of-2013-2014/

The best way to grow your platform

http://outthinkgroup.com/tips/when-should-you-start-marketing-your-book

How to format your eBook

http://blog.bookbaby.com/2014/05/how-to-format-your-ebook/

http://www.writeintoprint.com/p/affordable-kindle-epub-service.html

Keyword training 100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do5IGzhIvdM

https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A200PDGPEIQX41

https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A2EZES9JAJ6H02

Need to translate you novel to another language? http://translation-software-review.toptenreviews.com/babylon-review.html

http://www.trainingauthors.com/how-to-translate-your-book/

http://www.babelcube.com/

Where to get radio and TV interviews?

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=off&q=radio%20and%20tv%20rreport

Overall goodies on making an audio book

How ACX royalties work?

http://www.acx.com/help/what-s-the-deal/200497690

How to narrate your own book.

https://www.acx.com/help/authors-as-narrators/200626860

Submission guidelines

http://www.acx.com/help/acx-audio-submission-requirements/201456300

Great Info to help get an ad with Bookbub

http://www.indiesunlimited.com/2014/10/13/bookbub-tips-for-a-successful-submission/

EBook Bargains UK is the world’s first and currently only international ebook promotion newsletter. We send out daily newsletters to subscribers in fourteen countries / regions.

http://www.ebookbargainsuk.com/

Marketing options other than Bookbub

Ebooksoda

http://www.ebooksoda.com/

Fussy Librarian

http://www.thefussylibrarian.com/submit/

ereadernewstoday

http://www.ereadernewstoday.com /

Kindle Books and Tips

http://fkbooksandtips.com/for-authors/regular-book-posting/

A new way to do book promotion via phones

http://www.genrepulse.com/how-it-works/