PRESSKIT: Verbalize by Damon Suede
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RELEASE DATE: 12 March 2018
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Tagline: bring stories to life and life to stories.
Logline: Verbalize offers a fresh set of user-friendly, language-based tools to populate your pages and lay the foundations of unforgettable genre fiction.
Short description: Verbalize presents a new characterization and story-planning method to jumpstart drafting, crafting, revision, and pitching. Blast past overused tics and types with storycraft that busts your ruts and awes your audience via a fresh set of user-friendly tools to populate your pages and lay the foundations of unforgettable genre fiction.
Verbalize Details
- ISBN 978-1-945043-02-4 (ebook)
- ISBN 978-1-945043-03-1 (paper)
- Release: Evil Mastermind, LLC, 12 March 2018
- Subgenre: Nonfiction / Writing reference
- Length: 70,000 words
- series: Live Wire Writer Guides
Available in print and ebook.
Purchase links:
Verbalize
Blurb:VERBALIZE: bring stories to life & life to stories (live wire writer guides)
Fascinating fiction starts with characters who make readers care. This Live Wire Writer Guide presents a simple, effective technique to sharpen your hook, charge your scenes, and amplify your voice whether you’re a beginner or an expert.
Most writing manuals skirt craft questions with gimmicks and quick fixes rather than plugging directly into your story’s power source. Energize your fiction and boost your career with
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a new characterization method that jumpstarts drafting, crafting, revision, and pitching.
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skill-builders to intensify language, stakes, and emotion for your readers.
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battle-tested solutions for common traps, crutches, and habits.
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a dynamic story-planning strategy effective for plotters and pantsers.
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ample examples and exercises to help you upgrade fiction in any genre.
Blast past overused tics and types with storycraft that busts your ruts and awes your audience. Whether you like to wing it or bring it, Verbalize offers a fresh set of user-friendly, language-based tools to populate your pages and lay the foundations of unforgettable genre fiction.
Verbalize Release Campaign:
For any bloggers or journos interested in participating in the release of Verbalize, I'll be offering the following:
- an e-ARC of Verbalize for each blog's reviewer
- 10 writing advice "memes" for sharing on social media
- self-selected tour stop dates (within a range of dates). As long as you provide a link, I'll come splash around in the comments and convos.
- PromoSImple giveaway (provided & managed by us) with prizes including copies (digital/print) and a story consult with link or embed code which bloggers can include in post(s)
- up to 5 interview questions if you'd like to focus on something customized for the authors in your audience
- this dedicated press kit for the book (including blurb, logline, tagline, cover art, buy links, banners, topics, etc).
- listing on the book's page with your blog hyperlinked from name and date of stop noted
PromoSimple embed code:
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This contest will run all March and end on the 30th. Prizes: 1 print copy, 1 consult, and 5 ecopies of Verbalize for a total of five winners.
PromoSimple Links:
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Hosted contest entry: https://promosimple.com/ps/cc1b
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FB mobile friendly link: http://prmo.me/z1I0Fv
Release Tour:
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8 March: "Characterizing Character" - guest post at Jami Gold's writers resources
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9 March: "Character Alignment" - guest post for Fiction University
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9 March: "Wham Bam" Verbalization lecture for Romance University
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10 March: Verbalize Launch review at Books I Love a Latte
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11 March: "Meaningful Detail" an excerpt and extras for The Extra Shot at Books I Love a Latte
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16 March: "Play Time" Guest post for Kobo Writing Life
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25 March - Verbalize Interview with Michael Ventrella
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"Stronger Words" - guest post for The Creative Penn
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Verbalize Topics:
- Story Proof: implementation and the proliferation of underpants gnomes in writing advice
- Impersonal Ads: the largely worthless advice given to every genre author
- Show Business: the overlaps and disparities between genre fiction and all other entertainment
- Part of Speech: why knowing the limits of language can transform your fiction
- Emotional Motion: the most critical element of any genre fiction project
- Muse-ment Parks: why popular entertainment creates obsessive fans
- Big Brains: the hardwired patterns that fascinate audiences
- Right Word: the single, fastest way to fix any character, beat, or scene