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Simple enough, right?
Ask Dan ANYTHING
Well, maybe.
See, a lot of you don’t know what you don’t know, and some of you know things others don’t; so the idea is for you – and I mean YOU – to just ASK the questions you have and let’s get the ball rolling. I’ll opine; maybe some others will chime in with their thoughts, and hopefully YOU will get several good solutions to choose from.
Or something like that.
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Wanna know how to create amazing dialogue?
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Wanna know why you need to build an author platform?
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Wanna know how to write characters that are 3-dimensional and unforgettable?
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Wanna know how to get more Twitter followers?
And it doesn’t have to be directly writing related. Sometimes you need to get in the writing mood by NOT doing writer stuff. Maybe you wanna know about doing author events, but maybe you wanna know about public speaking, or… I don’t know; the London train system. (I had some trouble there, if you’ll recall.)
Or why so much of Europe requires you to pay to pee…
I don’t want to suggest ideas TO you, I wanna know what’s on YOUR mind.
What are YOU struggling with?
So ask.
Ask me anything.
We have lots of smart people here; if I don’t know the answer, I’ll find someone who does. Or I’ll make something up.
Go ahead, you know you want to.
ASK ME ANYTHING!
Post your questions in the comment section below. I’ll answer the first 3, maybe more – so don’t goof off. Post your question NOW!
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I’m tabling my first con that gets approximately 30k visitors over 3 days, though I suspect this year will be much higher attendance due to celebs. That said, how many books should I take? I was thinking around 30. I don’t want to over order because then I’m stuck with physical copies I can’t do much with until I book more signings (my office is organized chaos and I don’t like clutter, so there’s no way I’d wanna keep an extra, say 20 copies, for example).
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30 is a good number for this reason: if you sell out, you’ll be happy, if you don’t sell out, hopefully you will sell enough to where you’re not taking very many home, that will give you a reduced per book shipping cost on the ones you do end up with, and then you can offer signed copies on your website that you can mail to people (via media mail).
Ordering in smaller amounts, you pay a much higher shipping cost per book, and that can really take a bite out of profits.
That said, you are cordially invited to do a guest blog post about the event, you can send us updates while you’re there and how it went for you as far as who the celebs are and what kind of attendance you saw. Would love to hear all about it!
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Seriously?! Oh wow! Thank you so much!!
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Take good notes! Maybe some pictures.
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And video and Facebook posts 😉
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So, I have always been a writer. Not for public viewing if that makes sense. I write simply for my own pleasure and I enjoy doing it. I have never had any formal training. No training at all for that matter. I would like to start putting my writing out there but don’t want it to be total chaos. Do you have any articles or pieces of info for someone that is just starting a blog? What advice do you give to someone?
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Sure! Tons of it!
If I was starting a blog today I would say what I said a few years ago when I did start. Write about whatever interests you.
Follow blogs that interest you and comment on them.
As you follow other blogs, many of them will follow you back. Over a very short period of time you can be following 100 blogs – because they don’t all post every day and over the course of a month you can certainly read one or two blogs every single day. Three blogs a day for 30 days is 90 blogs, you know? So 100 isn’t too many.
And then you’ll find about 30 or 40 follow you back.
From there, different things interest you on different days, the same as different things interest me on different days. Right now we’re talking about our anthology and our contest winners but I have a new book coming out and my daughter just started 2nd grade. All kinds of things get talked about.
I did a post called “my blog sucks and I’m kinda clueless” that will probably help you in a little bit greater detail. And come back anytime and ask your questions. When your blog is running well, let me know so I can come check it out and maybe re-blog some of your posts or you could do a guest blog post here.
You’re gonna find that people who blog are a very welcoming community, as is the writing community in general.
But you made one important step very early on. You found my blog. That’s practically a guarantee of success.
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