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Value Added Content: Key to Web Growth

July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

Dana Lynn Smith was kind enough to host me at her blog, The Savvy Book Marketer. Be sure to drop by and check out my column, Promote Your Book with Value-Added Content.

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Why I Dumped MySpace

May 19th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

For years, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with MySpace.   When it first launched, I thought it rocked. There really wasn’t anything quite like it. I met some cool folks in publishing, learned about new writers and groups and was able to keep up with some good friends.   It didn’t take long for the [...]

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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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Food Makes Good Conversation with Readers

January 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

Good food makes great conversation. No matter if you are out to dinner with friends, or skimming the best hors devours from the buffet at a party, food tends to bring out the conversationalist in most people. Food is also terrific for marketing. I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve checked out a [...]

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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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Market My Novel 2009 Author Marketing Survey

December 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

With the end of 2009 drawing near, it’s a good time to reflect on marketing tactics – what worked, what didn’t, and how plans will change for 2010. This year, you can be part of the First Annual Market My Novel Author Marketing Survey. It’s just questions – most multiple choice – about social networks [...]

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Publishers Delay eBooks

December 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

The Wall Street Journal offered up a story yesterday about Harper Collins delaying the release of the electronic versions of hardcover books in the coming year. The most interesting quote is at the end: One veteran literary agent in New York, Nat Sobel, a partner at Sobel Weber Associates, has been trying to rally publishers [...]

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Be Thankful for the Bad Stuff

November 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

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 [...]

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