I’ve always been a huge proponent of self publishing. Years ago, self publishing wasn’t easy. Many authors ended up with boxes of books gathering dust in their garages. They wrote the books and paid to publish, but they had a hard time finding buyers for them. With the explosion of the Internet and social media, [...]
Entries from January 27th, 2010
Enthusiasm a Must for Today’s Authors
January 27th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized
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Market My Novel Survey Results
January 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Market My Novel, Uncategorized
The results are in from the 2009 Market My Novel Author Marketing Survey! Of course, these would have been to you much sooner than the end of January, but I’d wanted to create some nice graphs. That was this post’s near demise. After struggling to get the program to work for I don’t know how [...]
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Kim Smith Talks Marketing
January 8th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized
Today Kim Smith, author of Buried Angel, drops by Market My Novel to talk about book promotions. Before you were published, did you know anything about marketing? No. I felt like a lost ball in the high weeds. It was something that I did without knowing what I was doing. I just went out and [...]
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How to Find Your Audience Part II
January 6th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized
In a follow up to Monday’s post, How to Find Your Audience, I discussed ways for writers to find readers. Today, get some advice from other writers. Special thanks to Marilyn Meredith, Cheryl Malandrinos and Cheryl Kaye Tardif for responding to my shout out via Facebook! H’mmm, that’s an interesting concept. I suppose by having [...]
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How to Find Your Audience
January 4th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized
In the comments section of How to Streamline in 2010, Market My Novel reader Beth Barany wrote: Great advice, Angela! I wonder how you go about finding the right reader networks for your genre. I write YA fantasy, as yet unpubbed. What do you recommend? I want to be ready to build a reader network [...]
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