Are you a short fiction writer wondering what opportunities are open to you?Are you a long-form fiction writer wondering if short fiction is worth the investment of your time?Short fiction is enjoying a resurgence and provides both independently and traditionally published authors opportunities for creating income and connecting with readers.Matty Dalrymple and Mark Leslie Lefebvre will show you … Lefebvre will show you where those opportunities lie and how to take advantage of them.
CREATING INCOME
Traditional Publishing Market
Anthologies & Collections
Mechanics of Indy Anthologies
Standalone e-books
e-book Collections
Serials
Foreign Language
Markets
Audio
Patron Support
Getting Unstuck
CONNECTING WITH YOUR READERS
Offering Your Story for Free
Reader Funnel
Reader Magnet
Video
Author Readings
Market Research
Flash Fiction and Micro-Fiction
Chapbooks
Bonus Material
Custom Story
Location-based Apps
When the Reader Is an Agent
BEST PRACTICES
Editing and Proofreading
Cover Design
Links and QR Codes
Being an Active Member of the Community
Create Once, Publish Everywhere
more
Mark Leslie Lefebvre smashed it with this book. It’s a fantastically informative short book for writers of all levels. An absolute must read for any author of short fiction wanting to make the best use of their stories. Whether that’s increasing readers, sales or assets. Highly recommended for new authors or seasoned pros alike.
This was an informative read about short fiction and how to make the most out of it. I like how this book dived deeply in the topic of short fiction. Usually this is something that’s mentioned in passing or how to use when trying to grow your newsletter for example. I liked how in this book the spotlight was on short fiction. The authors show a big variety of techniques and opportunities you can make use of when writing short fiction and also how to use the same piece of short fiction more than once or for different goals.
I liked how broadly the topic of short fiction is covered. Everything from self publishing to traditional publishing from anthologies to newsletter magnets in covered. As well as a variety of topics like chapbooks, making an audio or video of your short fiction and more that I hadn’t thought of yet. I liked how this was written in a way that most authors no matter their goal (money or audience) and no matter how they publish could find something they could use in here.
The way to book was set up worked well with first money focused strategies, then the audience building ones and then some general tips. I also liked how the authors address different resources that can help you and link to these after each chapter as well as collect them at the end of the book.
The only thing that didn’t quite work for me is the writing style, not sure why, but it didn’t fully keep my attention at times. As it’s written by two authors it also was a bit weird how they referred to themselves in third person and we depending on the sentence, which felt a bit off at times. There are covers included in the book of short stories and anthologies they referred to, which didn’t quite work for me. In an ebook these take up quite some space and break up the reading.
To summarize: This was an informative read about short fiction. The authors seem knowledgeable and share a broad variety of strategies and ways to utilize short fiction. It was great to read a whole book focused on short fiction as short fiction usually is only mentioned in passing or as a means to an end, while here the spotlight really is on short fiction. I liked how the approach was quite broad and it covers everything from money making to audience building with tips applicable to traditional publishing and self publishing. I had some small niggles like how the writing style didn’t fully work for me and the covers included in the book break up the text in a weird manner at time sin the ebook version. All in all I would definitely recommend this if you want to know more about short fiction and how to utilize it.
I liked this book because it goes to the point without fuss and because it opened my mind with … possibilities
I have been writing short stories for a year now, adding them in my own anthology and submitting a few of them. But I could do so much more ! I enjoy writing flash fictions and short stories and I am glad I will try to provide them to readers in more ways !
The book is direct, as stated above. A few pages on Mark and Matty’s work may not be required, but having read Mark’s work already, he didn’t need to earn my trust. So I skipped over the passages describing them (sorry !) focus on all the eye-opening discussion.
absolutely worth reading if you enjoy writing shorts !!!