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Heart Breathings
Sarra Cannon has self-published 25+ fiction
books. She has tons of knowledge of the publishing process and writing tips!
Brittany Wang
Brittany Wang is YA self published author with knowledge on building up your author brand, gaining newletter subscribers, and using Notion for your writing!
Bethany Atazadeh
Bethany Atazadeh is YA self published author. She has tips on marketing, writing, and author income streams.
Jenna Moreci
Jenna Moreci is a Dark Fantasy and Romance self published author. On her channel you'll find tons of quick tip videos as well as dos and don'ts. If you like snarky personalities, you'll love her videos!
Alexa Donne
Alexa Donne is a traditionally published YA author, but that changes nothing about her advice on writing and tips on how to improve through reading novels you love and admire. She also has several videos on writing Thrillers.
Ellen Brock
Ellen Brock is a fiction editor who offers advice to authors for free on YouTube. She goes over story structure, the different writing types writers, and much more.
Favorite Software
You don't need any of these to write an amazing story. These are just some of my favorites that I prefer to use!
Scrivener is my preferred drafting software. It lets me keep a lot of info in one place, plus has spaces for me to create easy access documents of cut scenes or to brainstorm. Plus I can put my documents for research inside of it, too.
Plottr has been one of my favorite software for creating a series bible! I'm a pantser, but still get a lot of value from its ability to keep up with all my character information, places, and all my other notes to keep up with my series. It's also incredibly useful for people who LOVE to plot.
Other Software
Microsoft Word is my favorite to use when editing my manuscript. Having the completed manuscript in a different software than Scrivener helps get me in the editing mindset. It's also used by professional editors, so it's a good investment when the time comes!
Microsoft Word
I use Google Docs to share my manuscript with my Critique partners and Beta Readers since it's free and has the comment feature. You can also set up the document so that it cannot be copied. It's a handy tool that some people enjoy also writing in, plus it's free.
Google docs
Courses
Publish and Thrive is an amazing course that teaches all about self-publishing by the wonder self-published author, Sarra Cannon. She goes through what your goals are with publishing into the ins and outs of publishing on each platform. It's a must for new authors interested in self-publishing.
The HB90 Boot Camp is a course all about planning your life for 90 days at a time. 90 days is often much more manageable and lets you reevaluate what's working and what's not about your plans. It also teaches you how to calculate how much time you actually have versus how much time you THINK you have. It's the best course for planning!
It's thanks to this Brittany Wang's Author Website Boot Camp that this website exists today! Brittany Wang goes over everything in detail using Wix. I think this course is valuable even for people not interested in using Wix, but obviously you'll get the most out of it if you are.
This one is a bit different, as it's a free course on YouTube by Brandon Sanderson. He offers a lot of insight into writing that isn't deep diving into story structure like many other courses and novels.