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The Story Grid. How To Tell A Story And Edit Your Fiction With Shawn Coyne
OLD POST ALERT! This is an older post and although you might find some useful tips, any technical or publishing information is likely to be out of date. Please click on Start Here on the menu bar above to find links to my most useful articles, videos and podcast. Thanks and happy writing! – Joanna PennIf a reader can't put your book down, it's because you wrote a good story.
And if a reader makes it to the end of the book and is satisfied, they are likely to buy your next book. And that makes for happy readers … and writers! In today's show, I interview Shawn Coyne about his book, The Story Grid, which deconstructs the most effective way to tell stories based on the books we know and love.
In the introduction, I mention Amazon's direct marketing tool for authors, offering pay-per-click style advertising opportunity – but it's only for those people in KDP Select. I also talk about the new Author Earnings report, and my personal writing update.
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Shawn Coyne is an editor, publisher, literary agent and writer. He's one half of Black Irish Books alongside Steven Pressfield and his book on editing is The Story Grid.
You can listen above or on iTunes or Stitcher, watch the interview on YouTube here or read the notes and links below.
* Shawn's 25 years of publishing experience as an editor has enabled him to break down the best way to tell a story.
Writers need to learn how to edit themselves.
* What do writers get wrong? Writers seem to be fearful or have contempt for ‘genre,' even though this is core to story. Every story has a genre – it's just a way of classifying what we've been telling for thousands of years. Writers need to embrace genre.
* This will help you ask the right questions to work out if your book is workin...