Resources
Below, you’ll find my Amazon shopping lists and my affiliate links for products and courses that you might enjoy. As an Amazon Influencer and an affiliate for other programs, I earn from qualifying purchases. However, I have only included products I’ve used or that come highly recommended. I hope you find these resources helpful!
Inspiration, Personal Development, & Journals
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ProWritingAid – ProWritingAid is my favorite editing software, and is a grammar checker, style editor, and writing mentor in one package. If you’re a new ProWritingAid user and purchase through my affiliate link, send your receipt to stacy at stacyjuba.com and I’ll send you three bonuses:
Bonus #1: My two-page Overused Words Cheat Sheet.
Bonus #2: My 42-minute video that teaches you how to use the Overused Words Cheat Sheet and unleash the power of ProWritingAid and Google Docs/Microsoft Word.
Planner Pads – This is what I personally use as a daily planner. Check out the undated versions with start dates that sync with your unique timeline. Choose from spiral bound or loose leaf versions which are available in different sizes and ink colors.
New customers can try the Planner Pad for the first time for up to six months, and if you feel it has not given you an extra hour a day, send it right back to the company for a full product refund.
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Publisher Rocket – This handy tool will help you get your book in front of more Amazon shoppers
so you can spend less time marketing and more time writing. Rocket gives you real data that shows you exactly what Amazon customers type into Amazon, as well as how many people search for those keywords every month. With the category feature, you can quickly find relevant niche categories for your books, as well as find out how many books you’d need to sell that day in order to be the new #1 bestseller.
Rocket will help you find hundreds of profitable keywords for your Amazon ad book advertising campaign in under 10 seconds. Once you have your list of keywords just click export and paste your keywords right into your AMS campaign – and you’re done!
The site has lots of free resources also, including:
How to Choose Keywords Tutorial
How To Choose Categories Tutorial
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From Brit Poe of Thriving Scribes:
Author Platform Content Toolkit – A week-by-week, highly customizable plug-and-play content creation system for fiction authors that will help you elevate your personal author brand to all new heights. Includes Content Batching Roadmap, Author Platform Content Plan, 156 Plug-And-Play Author Platform Content Prompts, and several bonuses.
Thriving Scribes Planner – Designed specifically for self-publishing authors, the Thriving Scribes Planner will guide authorpreneurs toward planning their year with intention and purpose. Get ready to plan some epic authorship goals, up your productivity, and design the author business of your dreams. This planner is undated and ready to use at any time of the year. Get the printed version or the digital PDF.
Trello 4 Authors Templates – Plot your next series, novel, and scene while organizing your digital clutter. Manage your future novel and character ideas, book launch, and book creation more efficiently with the Trello templates for authors. Get Trello boards to outline your novels, expand your ideas, and manage your publishing journey. You can just get the templates, or take a full course.
Behind The Rewrite With Liesel K Hill: Making Sentences Less Passive
I see a lot of writers who need to learn the logistics of making sentences less passive. In this Behind the Rewrite, Liesel K Hill explains why limiting passive voice is important and how she approached line editing her fantasy novel Dragon Magic. Since Liesel is both...
How Authors Can Engage With Readers: 3 Tips From The @AuthorEncounter
Are you an author seeking to connect with readers? Then you'll definitely want to attend the January 8, 2021 Facebook live in the Shortcuts for Writers: Editing Made Simple group. Nan Jenkins of The Author Encounter will be chatting with me about that very topic. The...
12 Free Gifts For Indie Authors Through Jan. 5 #writingcommunity #writinglife
Are you an author who is ready to keep the holiday cheer going for another twelve days? Then you will absolutely love the 12 Days of Christmas Party sponsored by Thriving Scribes, 2020 has been something else, this year, hasn't it? And this holiday season, all I want...