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Writing series can be a great way to level up your author career, create a more stable writing income, and create a devoted fanbase. It’s also challenging, and can be overwhelming if you’re not prepared. Series authors need to consider many things that standalone title authors don’t have to worry about. And everything is exponentially more complex once you’re tackling more than one book! You might be wondering:
What kind of series should I write?
Which details do I need to keep track of?
How much advance planning should I do?
Is publishing strategy different for a series vs standalone titles?
How can I get the most bang for my buck in marketing and promotion?
Experienced series author Crystal Hunt will help you answer all these questions and more with this combination strategy manual and exercises that will get you applying what you’ve learned to your own series project.
Whether you’re a seasoned series author, or just starting to explore your options and thinking a series might be a good next step for you, this book can help you write and publish your series smarter from ideas through publication and promotion!
Free Resources from Strategic Series Author by Crystal Hunt
What’s included in the resources package?
Writer’s Self Evaluation
If you’re ready to evaluate where your skills are at and focus in on where you need to level up, and where you “got this” then this is the word doc for you. You can download it, and print it or completed it digitally.
Tools Inventory
This a spreadsheet you can download to help you track all the writing tools you know you have, what stage of the writing and publishing process they are used for, costs etc.
Crystal’s Story Outline Template
A mashup of a few of Crystal’s key tools, resources and books that are part of developing the story and characters for every book she writes. This word doc will be useful as an example to help you create your own template will be a mixture of whatever storytelling techniques, beat sheets, methods and genre conventions speak to you and go into your writing process.
The Yahtzee Method
An explanatory video interview with author KC Dyer who came up with this strategy, and downloadable templates to use as a starting place for creating your own Yahtzee sheet.
Author Budget Spreadsheet
A downloadable budget template to help you figure out exactly what you have to work with financially and/or what your target is for saving.
Author Branding Modules (Videos + Handouts)
It’s important to establish your author branding as soon as possible, and then stick to your brand as consistently as you can throughout your writing and publishing and marketing activities. Hiring a graphic designer can be more expensive than many people can afford, so I’ve put together some tips and tricks and exercises to walk you through the process of developing your author brand.
Recommended tools from this book
Vellum
Software to help you layout your eBooks and print books.