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Getting A Cover For Your First Book

January 8, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

With most activities there is a problem of “expert blind spots”. The idea is that once you start understanding a domain of knowledge, you forget what other people don’t know. When you talk about it, you assume a background similar to your own – other experts. USUALLY, it would be reasonable to listen to the […]

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Feedback on Creative Work

August 14, 2020 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

I’ve just finished the first chapter of a book I’ve been thinking about for a while. I’m happy with how it came together generally, but had a feeling that I often have at the early stage of a creative project. “Why don’t I get some feedback and figure out if this is worth developing?” It […]

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Getting Started With Your Mailing List

May 29, 2020 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Starting and maintaining a mailing list is some of the first advice new authors receive, after “paying for a nice cover” and “hiring editing services”. What a mailing list actually entails usually isn’t detailed and I found the specifics somewhat confusing, so I wanted to write up what I’ve figured out so far. The general […]

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My Experience Writing Serialized Web Fiction

May 28, 2020 by John Champaign 2 Comments

I’m 2 months into publishing my fiction in a serial format and thought I’d post a few thoughts about my experience so far. There are writers with *FAR* more experience in the format than myself, but my hope is that this can be useful to people at an earlier stage. Experts sometimes develop a novice […]

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