My new book, Get Your Book Selling Wide: Get the Basics of Publishing in Print, Ebook, Audiobook, Translations, Apps, and More (Book Sales Supercharged #1) is available now and permanently free in ebook format! (Where possible; $0.99 anywhere it hasn’t been price-matched.) In the book, I talk about why independent authors should pay attention to […]
Monica Leonelle
Monica Leonelle is a USA Today bestseller and the founder of The World Needs Your Book.
BLACK FRIDAY DEAL #1: The Productive Novelist 13-Book Series For $47 (normally $87 or $110 purchased separately)
Important Information: Offer: All 13 books in The Productive Novelist series in ebook/digital format (delivered via Bookfunnel). Story: This series is a re-release of my 2015 Growth Hacking For Storytellers series + the addition of 6 new, exciting books to the series. I’ve also added content to each of the previously released books to reflect […]
3 Things You Must Include in the Concept For Your Novel
A lot of stories start with an idea—but usually, there’s not enough there to begin writing a story. Today we’re going from idea to concept. Here are a few examples of ideas that eventually became stories in our modern culture: Two powerful wizards who battle it out for control of both the magic and muggle […]
How To Turn a Novel Idea Into a Fleshed Out Concept
Larry Brooks, author of Story Engineering, describes a concept as something that launches a series or franchise. For example, what’s a show about a group of friends in their 20s-30s living in New York City (the idea)? If you said Friends, you’re right. But if you said How I Met Your Mother, you’re also right. […]
What’s Going on With Prose on Fire and The Growth Hacking For Storytellers Series?
My business is going through a confusing transition, and I want to explain what’s happening for those who have questions! As some of you know, I wrote the Growth Hacking For Storytellers series from 2015-2017, extending the series to seven books total. I’m super proud of that series and all that it has accomplished. Over […]
Novel Writing Prep: Available Now! (In Time For #NaNoWriMo)
Today is the launch of my new book, Novel Writing Prep: A 30-Day Planner That Prepares You To Write 50,000 Words in One Month, which is the first in a series I’m launching especially for novelists and aspiring novelists who want to focus on writing craft and the business of books. Grab it Here: Amazon […]
Novel Writing Prep! A 30-Day of Planning That Prepares You To Write 50,000 Words in One Month
Stuck in a full-time job but want to write a novel instead? Wondering how you’ll ever find time for your personal projects when you have so much on your plate? Thinking about trying to tackle National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo) this November, but worried you can’t write that many words or your novel will end up […]
Should You Set Up an Amazon Pre-Order or Not?
Some authors prefer not to set up pre-orders on Amazon because it can hurt their sales rank during launch week. The pre-orders are spread out according to the time of purchase and don’t accumulate to give a big burst in sales rank. This can hurt visibility within Amazon’s stores and limit how high your book […]
New Pen Name! Solo Storm
I’ve moved all of my fiction that was under Monica Leonelle to a new pen name called Solo Storm. Now I have two fiction pen names. Solo Storm writes primarily fantasy and science fiction. She also writes mostly clean, which to me means very little cursing and fade-to-black at the kissy kissy parts. My other […]
We’re Out of Kindle Unlimited (By Choice)
You may have heard that numerous authors are having their accounts shut down, or their books pulled, or their royalties stripped, based on suspicious “gaming the system” activity on their Amazon account. Now don’t get me wrong. Some of these authors did game the system and Amazon is trying to crack down on this misbehavior. But […]