ROMANCE WRITERS OF AUSTRALIA CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: BOOST YOUR AUTHOR BRAND FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER 1:10pm - 2:40pm Supercharge your Author Brand with award-winning romance author and branding junkie, Ally Blake, as she discusses how dedicated, deliberate, decisive branding choices can be a deciding factor in a publisher buying your book, a new reader trying one of your stories for the first time, and turning readers into fans. Learn how to create a holistic, overarching, instantly recognisable brand across multiple platforms - website, social media, book covers, live appearances – and build familiarity, connections, and relationships that keeps readers coming back for more. |
ROMANCE WRITER IN RESIDENCE This coming February, join Romance Writer in Residence - best-selling award-winning romance author, Ally Blake - as together we celebrate Library Lovers’ month. Readers and writers will be invited to visit with Ally in the Brisbane Square Library and chat about writing, reading, books, publishing, and romantic fiction while she writes her next book. More about what's on at Brisbane Libraries here. |
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Keen to have Ally speak at your book store, conference, work place, library, book club, or host a workshop on writing, editing, author branding, cover design etc. email ally@allyblake.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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An interactive workshop highlighting the ingredients it takes to make a winning romance novel "The Making of a Romance Author" The top 10 questions Ally is always asked when people discover she is a romance author "Working with an Editor" Ready to send your manuscript off into the big wide world, learn the lingo, the cues, the expectations when working well with an editor. "Author Online/Author Branding" How to create your author brand and integrate across website, social media, book covers "Cover Love" What it takes to make a great book cover - covering branding, "the blink test" genre conventions and more... "Writing is Rewriting" How to revise your own work as well as working with critique partners, agents and editors "The Organised Writer" Organisational hacks and habits of highly productive writers. |
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Charlotte Nash's BOOK CLUB
"First Experiences Reading Romance" with Charlotte Nash, Amy Andrews and Bernadette Rowley |
Looking for Ally's website design, social media and book cover design business? Head to the AllyOop Designs Facebook page and website. |
For organisational hacks and habits of happy and productive writers, check out The Organised Writer at the website and on Facebook. |