If you have been in the writing community for any amount of time, you’ve probably heard a term circling around: zero drafting. You’ve probably visited multiple websites, watched YouTube videos, and listened to podcasts, deciding you want to try it for yourself. But! What exactly is a zero draft? How do you use them? Is there a specific or “right” way to write one? All good questions and as I...
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Today’s blog is not only showing you examples of templates, but how to make the changes inside the templates to customize it using Book Brush Tools. Through the past few months, I’ve shown you many ways to think outside the box as you to look at templates by using the book’s title, the cover imagery and colors. For those blogs I used what we call at Book Brush, our Instant Mockups. But are you...
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As a self-published author who writes Christian non-fiction books, I must admit that marketing was not even a blip on my radar when I wrote my first book. Honestly, the biggest issue I faced was getting that book out of my head and onto paper. Once I finished and submitted my book to the various self-publishing platforms, I thought I was done. I genuinely believed readers would gravitate to my...
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Using predesigned templates can save you a huge amount of time and energy in the marketing side of your author business. At Book Brush, we call these Instant Mockups, and I use them all the time. For this post I’m going to show you how I used 3 criteria; the book’s title, the cover imagery and colors in choosing templates for three vastly differing books. Using The Title I wouldn’t do much...
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TikTok seems to be the rage right now and after reading Brianna Bennett’s post about it, I thought why not make a book trailer in TikTok fashion. That means 15 seconds. Why 15 seconds? Apparently TikTok has a commitment with their music provider for 15 seconds of free play time. (They do allow linked vids for 60 seconds and are considering 3 minutes.) So, we have 15 seconds to promote our...
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