Mark Kamibaya

@reaganramm Wow! Thanks so much! This is infinitely helpful! I was wondering about this because I read an article about someone who said never to talk about your novel before publishing it because it would make the book jaded whenever it came out, but now I think that article was probably wrong. XD 😛

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Here’s our video, @dragon-snapper !

Hope it helps!

5 Reasons You Should Be Talking Up A Storm About Your Novel Before You Even Publish It

Great question, @dragon-snapper

We’ll shoot a video on this, but I can give a quick answer here.

In short, definitely!

First of all, why is your timetable so long? Why not publish this year?

Second, I think it’s a great idea to talk about your novel. In fact, the more the better!

Did Disney keep it a secret when they were planning The Force…[Read more]

@gh24682468999 It doesn’t sound too complicated. I can’t just take this limited information and guarantee it will work, but I think it can. One question: what’s the antagonistic force in this novel?

@dekreel Classic.

@jenwriter17 Yeah. I think it’s the “Worst Allegory Ever” video.

@dekreel XD I figured.

@dekreel These keep getting better and better.

@dekreel Lol. You just tagged yourself. 😛

@sam-kowal 😀 Thanks!  Go eat the pancakes and cinnamon rolls. (Stop it, you’re making me hungry too.) 😛

@ethryndal @daeus @winter-rose @jenwriter17 @sam-kowal @jane-maree @audrey-caylin Hey guys! I revamped my blog, if you wanted to check out the new design. 🙂

(And Audrey, I also redid my blog button, if you could update that too. 😀 Thanks! )

@SlyLilHuntress 😀

@Dekreel Quite. XD

@SlyLilHuntress Welcome to KP! You have now gained many friends. 😉

@Dekreel 😀 And the Les Mis thing is hilarious.

@Dekreel It’s great! And I love my door. 😀

@skredder Woah. That’s awesome!

@slylilhuntress Read Brandon Sanderson (crazy amazing fantasy author). Also, Cry The Beloved Country (not fantasy, but very deep and heartfelt. The best Christian novel I’ve ever read). Oh, and read Dreamlander too! It’s amazing.

@Sam-Kowal ha! Well, remind me, and I will. ;P

And YES. Depth is everything. If you can boil your entire world down to a single deep, resonant core story/concept, so much the better for you. Hard to stress enough how important that is. Focus on what you have and make it so magical you don’t have to go look for other things to distract you.

@reaganramm

Another question.

I was wondering what your thoughts were on talking and sharing about your novel before it’s published? If you’re planning to get published within the next few years, should your novel facts and characters and everything else go incognito?

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