You’ve got to love it when someone who gives advice needs a healthy dose of his – or her – own.
One of my key components to any plan for clients is blogging in advance. It is wonderful to have two or three weeks worth of posts ready to go live, or be pushed to a [...]
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, the publishing [...]
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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 long, [...]
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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 a [...]
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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 when [...]
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Be thankful for the bad stuff.
Typically this time of year, folks think about being thankful for being successful, healthy, having good friends and family – or a job.
No one ever wants to focus on the bad stuff, and yet, those horrid moments that gave you major heartburn can be some of the finest learning [...]
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Gale Laure/Evolution of a Sad Woman
So you want to be an author. You have a wonderful novel that you have written. Your heart and soul went into this work. It is unique. You have been told it is quite good. So what is next?
You have to sell [...]
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James Diehl/World War II Heroes of Southern Delaware
When it comes to promoting a new project, I like to use a lot of the new techniques available today, including Web-based press releases, blogging and online video. But I also use traditional methods like press releases, newspaper interviews, book signings and sending information out [...]
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The Trouble with Trolls
October 15th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Marketing, Web/Tech
This graphic is floating around the Web in one form or the other. This version I found
at The Austrian Economists.
Trolls breed in dark anonymity online, breathing foul odors through cyberspace and causing enough mayhem to stress out even the Winchester brothers.
Everything good must have a bad side. For the Internet, it is trolls, hecklers [...]
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