Beyond the Trope
Jessica BarberiArticles from the mind of Author - Jessica Barberi, who believes the most compelling stories grow not from worn tropes, but from the rich soil of human complexity.
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On AI Book Covers: A Complicated Confession
I have been mulling this one over for weeks now and it feels like a timely moment based on what is circling around again over on X, so let’s get into it! I want to talk about AI book covers. It’s one of those subjects I have genuinely compl...
Marketing My Redheaded Step Series
Today I got the email I was expecting, which somehow didn’t make it land any softer.
It was a rejection for a BookBub feature deal with Legacy of Blood. I’d applied to be featured sometime in August, after the third and final book in my So...
Halfway Through Editing Burden of Fire
It’s been a while since I have posted over here. I’m currently eyeballs-deep in edits for Burden of Fire, and I just reached the halfway point – the place where the story really starts to pick up steam. Revisiting these chapters has simply...
You Don't Need to Be Well-Read to Be a Writer
I woke up this morning to a storm on X, which got me out of bed early to work on this article. A few days ago, novelist and professor Aaron Gwyn posted on X: “Sometimes a student in one of my fiction writing classes will come see me during...
My BookBub Deal Experience
Getting a BookBub deal – it’s been positioned as one of THE BEST ways for an indie author to reach a large number of new readers. But while the promise is intriguing, the reality is also quite intimidating. Simply getting approved for a dea...
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