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Welcome, Writers!
Bookmark this page of top rated writing tips, and affordable tools and resources for each stage of the writing process.
Writing Craft: Fiction
Writing Craft: Nonfiction
FREE course - How to Write a Non Fiction Book
This course is hosted by New York Times bestselling author Tucker Max. He walks you through the entire process of wriring your book and flowing through the marketing process. Also incuded are templates to get you going! This FREEBIE is a must-have for any non-fiction writer!
Thrive!
Editing, Proofreading, Mentoring & Coaching
The Starter
The masterful mentoring, editing, proofreading and coaching duo at The Starter will help guide you through the entire creative writing process so you can launch your work in a highly professional way. The Starter is the joint effort of bestselling author and editor (and dear friend) Marissa Stapley and Sophie Chouinard, poet extraordinaire, editor and coach.
Book Covers
99 Designs
This site is, by far, one of the best options for cover design. (Yes, they do website and app design too.) For one fixed price, you start a "contest" by stating what sort of design you'd like for your cover. At that point, the designers get to work and send you dozens of options. Pick your winner and you're good to go! You can even share your favourites with your advance reader team so they can help you choose!
Marketing
Book Description Generator for Amazon
Another great FREE tool from Dave Chesson. When you're ready to launch your book on Amazon and want to get your book description looking pretty, use this tool. It's set up to generate the Amazon html code for any text copy you paste in there. All you have to do is copy the code generated and paste it into your KDP backend for the book description.
Self Publishing Courses
Self publishing for beginners
This is the seminal course for fiction authors created by multiple bestselling author Mark Dawson. In this course, Mark shows you how to format your book, create covers that sell, upload your books into the online marketplace, help you find the right readers, set up your mailing list along with a plan to build it with confidence, create FB ad campaigns and help you sell your book!
Launch
Blogging
Launch Your Blog
This course is for newbie bloggers. The course creators show you how to start a blog from scratch, create quality content (nothing cheesy or scammy), get step-by-step help on the first 10 posts, how to pick keywords and headlines, how to attract readers and they claim the course will help you make your first $1,000 by blogging.
Six-Figure Blogger
This course is for serious bloggers who want to take things to the next level. This course, also by Alex and Lauren, was created after they made 6 figures within their first 10 months of blogging after serious failures. From there, they just kept going, earning six figures a month.
Recommended Course Platforms
Are you in the process of turning your writing into a course?
If so, congrats!
There is something SO exciting about offering your creations and your value in a way that many can use to change their lives!
Below are the 2 course platforms I recommend for the best value to price ratio.
There are many good course platforms out there, and I encourage you to check them all out.
But if you're looking for the best "all-inclusive" options that are also beautifully designed, then these are the most affordable ones out there!
NEW Zenler
This is the one that I'm using currently. This platform has EVERYTHING you need in the Basic package!
It includes the full flow from creation to funnels and emails and FB support.
Even better, if you join with the Beta price (on now!), you'll be locked into that low rate forever!
You can also pay monthly ($47/mo)! Simply send Zenler an email when they send you the registration link. You can test it for FREE too!
Course Craft
I have a course set up here too. Course Craft has a lovely and intuitive set up, and is very easy to use.
Course Craft is great for artist moms and coaches who want more of a visually appealing landing page straight up, without all the extra fuss of landing pages, etc.
Also, VERY affordable! You can set yourself up for FREE and test it as long as you like!
