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Publishing Talk Magazine issue 3 - NaNoWriMo

Jon Reed 15th November 201225th October 2020 #ptmag, Alison Baverstock, Elizabeth Haynes, Emily Benet, Julia Crouch, Linda Gillard, NaNoWriMo, Sarah Salway, Suzanne Collier, Tom Evans

Publishing Talk Magazine 3 – NaNoWriMo

November can mean only one thing: it’s NaNoWriMo time!
Whether you’re doing NaNoWriMo this year, saving your writing marathon for another month – or against the whole idea – there’s something for you in this issue.
We have two bestselling authors who used NaNoWriMo: Elizabeth Haynes and Julia Crouch; plus bestselling indie author Linda Gillard, who challenges the idea that churning out verbiage for an entire month has to be a good thing. Writing coaches Tom Evans and Sarah Salway are here to boost your productivity, and Jon Reed looks at some digital tools to help you write.

Case Studies

Jon Reed 7th January 2011 Friday Project, Neil Gaiman, Sarah Salway, Something Beginning With, Twitter, William Gibson

How Twitter propelled a republished book up the Kindle charts

Amazing things can happen on Twitter if you catch the eye of an ‘influencer’ or two.
Sarah Salway’s Something Beginning With was first published in 2004. Although it had a blog, this was in the days before Twitter, Facebook, and the huge word of mouth possible to achieve with them.
In November 2010 it was republished by the Friday Project. Within a week, it went from nowhere to the top 250 in the Kindle charts. How did this happen?