Your Best Writing Life

What Makes a Gush-worthy Read with Carrie Schmidt


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Is your book the topic of multiple book clubs? Today’s guest is sharing her secrets to making your next book a gush-worthy success!

Linda's writing industry leader is Carrie Schmidt. Carrie is an avid reader, book reviewer, story addict, and cool aunt. She loves Jesus and THE Story a whole lot. Carrie started the popular blog ReadingIsMySuperPower.org in 2015, co-founded the Christian Fiction Readers' Retreat and JustRead Publicity Tours, and co-wrote the book Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers.

Today, Linda and Carrie discuss the following during this episode on  What Makes a Gush-worthy Read? 

1 - Some common characteristics shared by novels to be considered gush-worthy 

2 - Questions an author can ask themselves to push a novel from 'good' to 'gush-worthy' 

3 - Why do reviews vary so much between reviewers? 

LINKS

  • https://readingismysuperpower.org/
  • Is My Book in 5-Star Territory? PDF Download
  • https://www.facebook.com/meezcarriereads/
  • https://twitter.com/meezcarrie
  • https://www.pinterest.com/meezcarrie/boards/
  • https://www.goodreads.com/meezcarrie
  • Carrie's book - https://amzn.to/3rInBZp

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Besides hosting Your Best Writing Life, Linda Goldfarb is a multi-published award-winning author, audiobook narrator, international speaker, board-certified Christian life coach, and the co-owner, co-founder of the LINKED® Personality System, and co-author of the LINKED® Quick Guide to Personality series.
 
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