@samknight.bsky.social
Sam Knight has curated over a dozen anthologies, authored six children’s books, four short story collections, four novels, and over 75 short stories, including three co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson.
@samknight.bsky.socialI’m sorry, Seanan. Big hugs and love to you guys.
@knightwritingpress.bsky.socialReposted by @samknight.bsky.social@samknight.bsky.social's #writingtips: It's okay to plot. It's okay to make it up as you go. It's okay to do a combination of the two. Writing is an art. Explore it. Do it in ways that make you happy. Learn the why of rules to break them creatively. Don't let others hold you back.
@knightwritingpress.bsky.socialReposted by @samknight.bsky.social@samknight.bsky.social 's #writingtips: Saving/backing up is more important than you think. I know authors who lost several finished, unpublished, novels at once. I save every day with a new, dated, file so I can compare revisions and I save locally as well as in the cloud. Be cautious.
@samknight.bsky.socialTime to start over and only change what HAS to be changed...
@samknight.bsky.socialDoing something I don't normally do, and this is why I save all of my revisions by date. I'm going back to the original version and starting revisions all over. While I feel all of the feedback I got was good, I also feel I've lost the soul of the story.
@knightwritingpress.bsky.socialReposted by @samknight.bsky.social@samknight.bsky.social 's #writingtips: We tend to measure our successes by other people's standards and whether they think we are successful. They are often wrong. Set your own goals and expectations for your success and be your own judge. And most importantly, be forgiving and fair.
@knightwritingpress.bsky.socialReposted by @samknight.bsky.social@samknight.bsky.social's #writingtips: Go back and look at the first word of all your paragraphs. If they all start with He, She, or a Name, then you are probably writing with repetitively structured sentences. That can be uninteresting, or worse, it can be off-putting. Change it up!
@knightwritingpress.bsky.socialReposted by @samknight.bsky.social@samknight.bsky.social's #writingtips: The most common questions are "where do you get your ideas" and "how do you make yourself sit down and write?" The truth is most of us are unable to turn off the idea factory in our heads and get really irritable if we DON'T sit down and write.
@knightwritingpress.bsky.socialReposted by @samknight.bsky.social@samknight.bsky.social's #writingtips: Some things really are only for a niche audience. If you are the type of writer who wants to write things that offend various groups of people, that's your choice, but submitting them to places that say not to is a bad choice. Don't be a jerk.
@knightwritingpress.bsky.socialReposted by @samknight.bsky.social@samknight.bsky.social's #writingtips: Getting a fanbase is hard. Some people do it near effortlessly, others...well, let's just say Sisyphus is not alone. Don't give up, ever, because if you do, you may as well give up writing. Which if you're willing to do, you shouldn't be a writer.
@knightwritingpress.bsky.socialReposted by @samknight.bsky.socialIt's that time of year! And right now the eBook is 50% off!
Grab a blanket and snuggle up for an autumn read!
books2read.com/u/4EpjEe
@knightwritingpress.bsky.socialReposted by @samknight.bsky.social@samknight.bsky.social's #writingtips: Challenge yourself to write a short story. Then challenge yourself to submit it somewhere. Then challenge yourself to keep submitting it until it gets accepted, even if you have to make changes. Get yourself published. You'll fee better.
@samknight.bsky.socialto give a 20% discount to whomever uses the link. It looks like I can change that pretty much any time, so I’m not sure what happens with your link if you tell people it gives them 20% off and I change it to 10%. I’ll have to explore that with someone one of these days.
@samknight.bsky.socialhuge reader and like to post about the books you’ve read, adding a link to an author who is set up on the website can earn you a little back. Maybe pay for the book you bought… Currently my catalog is set up for anyone who uses the affiliate links to earn 20% of the sale and
@samknight.bsky.socialsomeone uses your link to purchase. You can also see what percentage discount your link will offer (if any). This means you have all the details up front when you decide if you want to promote something. I think that’s pretty cool. So, if you are a
@samknight.bsky.socialthis was the part I thought was cool: once you join the Curios partner program thing, you can access a catalog of items that creators like me have put on the affiliate list. In the catalog, you can see what percentage of the sale you will earn (if any) if
@samknight.bsky.social can help me out by joining using my affiliate link:
www.curios.com/Joinauthorsamknight
Not sure what I would get exactly, but if you use my link to sign up for the affiliate program or to sign up sell on Curios, I get a little kickback.
Speaking of kickbacks,
@samknight.bsky.socialbecome an affiliate and earn money for referring people to my books!
At least, that’s what they tell me. I haven’t seen it work yet.
But if you want to try, you can become an affiliate here:
partners.curios.com
Or, you
@samknight.bsky.socialsomething I want to do. It might be a cool way to sell autographed books or special editions. One of the cool features, I think, beyond just being able to make coupons like the one above, is to allow you to get involved if you really love something I wrote. You can
@samknight.bsky.sociallooks like it plays audiobooks and music, too). I believe you can also download the eBooks for use in other places. I am still exploring that. I am currently only doing eBooks on Curios right now, but they have options for print books and I am looking into it to see if it is
