Types of Conflicts in Stories (Authortube)Ginny O.2024-10-21 | Types of Conflicts in Stories (Authortube)Booktube: July Book Show Case: There be More DragonsGinny O.2024-07-30 | This month, things are a little different, the books I ordered from the library, mostly didn't come. So going over the ones that did, a few from my collection, a couple friends loaned me, and a few recs not in my library system. But dragons!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: The Soft Sell Vs. Hard Sell of Book MarketingGinny O.2024-07-23 | Today, we're going to talk about soft selling and hard selling your books. Two different tactics, as an indie or even traditional author, you'll most likely be using both in you social media marketing campaign.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Building a World Culture Pt 5; The DiscourseGinny O.2024-07-16 | In today's video, I feel I would be remiss if I didn't talk about the world building culture discourse and some pitfalls you might encounter.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Building a World Culture Pt 4Ginny O.2024-07-09 | In today's video I want to talk about how cultures interact and influence each other.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Building a World Culture Pt 3Ginny O.2024-06-25 | In today's video I want to talk about a building a societies culture and some of the important touchstones we need to think about.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Booktube: June 2024 Library Haul; Here There be Dragons!Ginny O.2024-06-20 | This month, we're discussing dragon books. I go over a few in my collection, point out my own books have dragons in them, and talk about the four I ordered through my local library!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Building a World Culture Pt 2Ginny O.2024-06-18 | In today's video I want to talk about a building a societies culture and some of the important touchstones we need to think about.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270This Wasnt Inevitable. Star Stable Made ChoicesGinny O.2024-06-12 | Please enjoy watching me play Sprout Valley as I discuss how the recent revelations found by Rattle and Zaap about Star Stable's Finances didn't happen by accident and instead were a series of choices.
Much of the info in this video is gathered from around the net, and some of it is my opinion!
Recorded with FreecamAuthortube: Building a World Culture Pt 1Ginny O.2024-06-11 | In today's video I want to talk about a building a societies culture and some of the important touchstones we need to think about.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Further the PlotGinny O.2024-06-04 | In today's video I want to talk about a writing guideline of three words that often gets misconstrued; further the plot, meaning "every scene needs to further the plot."
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Destroy Your DarlingsGinny O.2024-05-28 | In today's video I want to talk about a writing guideline of three words that often gets misconstrued; "Destroy" Your Darlings.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Booktube: May 2024 Library Haul & Book Reviews; Sequels & FantasyGinny O.2024-05-23 | This month picking out some sequels to books I found interesting over the past few months, and checking out some new books published recently and not so much.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Character VoiceGinny O.2024-05-21 | In today's video I want to talk about character voice and the 4 things that help make a character "voicey."
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Show Your Character Traits (Why & How)Ginny O.2024-05-14 | In today's video I want to talk about showing instead of telling your character traits, why this is important and how to do it!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Booktube: April 2024 Library Haul & Book Reviews; MG Alternatives to Harry PotterGinny O.2024-04-23 | Harry Potter had such a big impact and captured the imagination, what do you do when your children want more books like Harry Potter. Today, we go over 7 MG Magical School Story Books.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Booktube: Tiktok Book Trailers, Fan Fic Binding, & Filing the Serial Numbers off PublishingGinny O.2024-04-16 | There's been some drama in the Harry Potter fandom where binders on etsy are binding fanfiction and selling for profit en masse, which is very, very illegal. I have a theory as to why this is happening, but it's only a theory.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Trope Marketing Vs. SummariesGinny O.2024-04-09 | Today, we're going to talk about trope marketing vs. summaries. What is a trope? What is a summary? Where does trope marketing come from? And why do we have to use both?
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: DO Market Your Book At The Right TimeGinny O.2024-04-02 | Today, I'm going to talk about a trend I've seen for books and video games; marketing way too early and why marketing too early is bad so you need to market at the right time; when you actually have a product in the very end stages.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Do NOT Use Your (Unwritten) Book Ideas As MarketingGinny O.2024-03-26 | In a Vox Article, I ran across some rather naive advice about book marketing in today's age of TikTok. Let's discuss what marketing is actually about, and why this advice will not help you sell your books.
Please do NOT harass anyone named in this video or the Vox Article, or any of the authors of the God of Arepo. Thank you!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Booktube: March Library Haul!Ginny O.2024-03-21 | Today, I'm going over some fantasy and scifi books that I ordered from my local library! Patronize your library!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: 2 Things of Marketing You Can Control as an Indie AuthorGinny O.2024-03-19 | As an indie author, there are 2 things you can control about your marketing that readers care about. As there are many things indie authors use to try and push their books (and trad pubs too) that are meaningless to readers.
NOTE: This was recorded back in January! (Thus the old decor and out of order 'in the last video.')
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Booktube: Readers Check Your Publishers (And How To Do It.)Ginny O.2024-03-12 | With so many books being reduced to tropes to appease algorithms, more marketing is changing and the more indie books are breaking through into public awareness, it serves readers to check their publishers in order to set their expectations. In this video, I discuss this and explain what to look for and how to find it out.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Booktube: Why Do Books Feel So Trendy and Underdeveloped?Ginny O.2024-03-05 | There are more and more books being published that feel they are being published to fill trends and aren't being developed enough before publishing and thus disappointing readers. What is going on, and why?
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Opening a Box from my Editor (Unboxing Video)Ginny O.2024-03-02 | My editor, Rebecca Horner, has sent me a box all the way from south of the mason dixon and what is inside? Hint, it's rectangular, full of paper pages, and colorful!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: When Fanfic Authors Go SidewaysGinny O.2024-02-27 | Today, we're going to discuss 3 Fandom Authors who didn't seem to get the memo of "Thou Shalt Not Monetize Your Work" or "Thou Shalt Not Send it to the IP Holder" and Romilly King's alleged plagiarism of Fan Fiction.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Trad Author Perks and Where Does We Cant Leave Negative Reviews Come From?Ginny O.2024-02-20 | I promised I'd talk about a Traditional Author Perk, and that's REVIEWS. And when we talk about reviews, we end up having a conversation about do reviewers trust reviews, especially on indie books, and this idea you can't leave 3 stars and under.
This was recorded BEFORE tiktoker NYTIMESBESTSELLERX4 did their tiktok. (For which I do not agree with them.)
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Booktube: February Library Haul!Ginny O.2024-02-17 | Today, I'm going over some fantasy and scifi books that I ordered from my local library! Patronize your library!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Going from Fan Fiction to Original Fiction Pt. 4 Difference in CultureGinny O.2024-02-13 | Maybe this year you're a fan fiction author who wants to try their hand at original fiction. I've got you! Let's talk about the differences between Fan Fiction and Original Fiction and how the cultures are different when you're no longer part of a community and are selling a product.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Going from Fan Fiction to Original Fiction Pt. 3B Indie PublishingGinny O.2024-02-06 | Maybe this year you're a fan fiction author who wants to try their hand at original fiction. I've got you! Let's talk about the differences between Fan Fiction and Original Fiction once you want to publish your book, especially if you're going into indie publishing. You are a business and have to act like it. AH!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Going from Fan Fiction to Original Fiction Pt. 3A Traditional PublishingGinny O.2024-01-30 | Maybe this year you're a fan fiction author who wants to try their hand at original fiction. I've got you! Let's talk about the differences between Fan Fiction and Original Fiction once you want to publish your book, especially if you're going into traditional publishing! Word counts. Deadlines. Genre Rules. Contracts!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Going from Fan Fiction to Original Fiction Pt. 2B World Building & CharacterizationGinny O.2024-01-23 | Maybe this year you're a fan fiction author who wants to try their hand at original fiction. I've got you! Let's talk about the differences between Fan Fiction and Original Fiction once you start hitting the second draft; things like being the god of your world and choosing the rules therein and telling them to the reader, and getting your readers attached to your characters!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Booktube: January Library Haul!Ginny O.2024-01-20 | Today, I'm going over some fantasy books that I ordered from my local library! Patronize your library!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Going from Fan Fiction to Original Fiction Pt. 2A POV & DescriptionGinny O.2024-01-16 | Maybe this year you're a fan fiction author who wants to try their hand at original fiction. I've got you! Let's talk about the differences between Fan Fiction and Original Fiction once you start hitting the second draft; things like Point of View and Description!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Old SSO Was Better (Winter Grind Video)Ginny O.2024-01-11 | Come with me as I finish the Christmas Grind and talk about how old Pre 2017 SSO was better than 2023 SSO. It's probably not for the reasons you think.
NOTE: this was recorded before Christmas. There will be no comments on the Christmas SC situation.
Recorded with FreeCamAuthortube: Going from Fan Fiction to Original Fiction Pt. 1: Before You WriteGinny O.2024-01-09 | Maybe this year you're a fan fiction author who wants to try their hand at original fiction. I've got you! Let's talk about the differences between Fan Fiction and Original Fiction you need to think about before even starting your manuscript; Markets, Genre, and Age Markets. (Also Ginny explores her bookshelves.)
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270SSE is Watching Your Star Stable Videos (And thats Bad)Ginny O.2024-01-04 | SSE's Executive Producer has revealed she's watching SSO creator videos. This is all of a manner of not good. Nor is it normal, so I want to discuss why and this is a very hard topic for me.
NOTE: this was recorded before Christmas. There will be no comments on the Christmas SC situation.
Recorded with LogiTech C270Authortube: The Tiktokification of Publishing (Its Concerning)Ginny O.2024-01-02 | Today, we're going to talk about tiktok and publishing, and how this rapid pulp model style of publishing and marketing is concerning and why it is concerning to authors. Especially if TikTok themselves wants to put skin into the publishing game by becoming a publisher.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270SSO 2023: Oh Noes! The Consequences of Our Actions! (Winter Grind Vid)Ginny O.2023-12-28 | Star Stable has changed a lot this year, and given away more information than I think they realized. Come winter grind with me and let's go over 2023, the changes, the blog, the glassdoor reviews, and is this year a positive, negative, or mixed. (As the chickens come home to roost to use a country saying.)
NOTE: this was recorded before Christmas. There will be no comments on the Christmas SC situation.
Recorded in FreeCamAuthortube: Social Media-ing for Authors Pt. 3; TumblrGinny O.2023-12-26 | Today, we're going to talk about tumblr and how tumblr is so much different than other social media websites. What you do on other websites, most likely will not work on tumblr.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Social Media-ing for Authors Pt. 2Ginny O.2023-12-19 | Today, we're going to talk about social media and how marketing on social media has changed (especially for books) and successful campaigns I've seen. What worked in 2012, won't work anymore in 2023.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Social Media-ing for Authors Pt. 1Ginny O.2023-12-12 | Today, we're going to talk about social media and things we as authors or creatives need to know or remember about social media and its pitfalls before we start marketing our books.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: Word Processors and Language Learning Models (AI)Ginny O.2023-12-05 | In today's video I'm talking about the rise of using language learning model algorithms (AI) in word processors rather than algorithms based upon Hemmingway Style or the Webster's dictionary and why this might not be so good for you and your writing. Video starts at 4:50
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: The Hierarchy of Drafts A VISUAL PresentationGinny O.2023-11-30 | In today's video, I'm presenting a power point presentation with notes and quickly going over everything I've said in the past month on drafting and advice you may need to look for at different stages of drafting. If you need visual notes and don't want to scroll back and forth to hear what I said, this is for you!
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: The Hierarchy of Drafts & The Third Draft (NaNoWriMo)Ginny O.2023-11-28 | In today's video I want to talk about the third draft of the three drafting process. This is a tough one. The stage of drafting to make your work follow the rules of grammar and be consistent line by line, and the types of advice you might go looking for at this point in the writing.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: The Hierarchy of Drafts & The Second Draft (NaNoWriMo)Ginny O.2023-11-21 | In today's video I want to talk about the second draft of the three drafting process. This is a big one. The stage of drafting purely for developing your story so it is understandable to the reader, and the types of advice you might go looking for at this point in the writing.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: The Hierarchy of Drafts & The First Draft (NaNoWriMo)Ginny O.2023-11-14 | In today's video I want to talk about the first draft of the three drafting process. The stage of drafting purely for you the writer, and the types of advice you might go looking for at this point in the writing.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270The Authors vs. Open AI LawsuitGinny O.2023-11-09 | So, in September, 17 authors and the Author's Guild filed a 4th lawsuit against Open AI and Chat GPT. So, don't panic, and let's talk about what this lawsuit is trying to accomplish. (Your fanfic is not in danger!)
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Authortube: The Hierarchy of Drafts Overview (NaNoWriMo)Ginny O.2023-11-07 | In today's video I want to talk about the overview of the three drafting process and the types of advice you might go looking for at each different drafting stage. We're going with 3 drafts for ease of discussion.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Booktober 2023: The Murderbot Diaries!Ginny O.2023-10-31 | Booktober, the time of year I talk about and review books, trad pubbed books that is. In today's video I'm going to be discussing the Murderbot Diaries, and only the Murderbot Diaries because I devoured them ALL.
Captured with Logitech Webcam C270Booktober 2023: Cozy Fantasy Mystery and Science Fiction!Ginny O.2023-10-24 | Booktober, the time of year I talk about and review books, trad pubbed books that is. In today's video I'm going to be discussing some Cozy Fantasy Mystery and Science Fiction books!