Rachel Thompson is the author of newly released BadRedhead Media 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge: How to energize your book sales in a month - created to help authors market their book. She is also the author of Broken Places (one of IndieReader's "Best of 2015" top books and 2015 Honorable Mention Winner in the San Francisco Book Festival), and the multi award-winning Broken Pieces, as well as two additional humor books, A Walk In The Snark and Mancode: Exposed. She owns BadRedhead Media, creating effective social media and book marketing campaigns for authors. Her articles appear regularly in The Huffington Post, IndieReader.com, The San Francisco Book Review (BadRedhead Says…), 12Most.com, BookPromotion.com, and Self-Publishers Monthly. Not just an advocate for sexual abuse survivors, Rachel is the creator and founder of the hashtag phenomenon #MondayBlogs and two live Twitter chats: #BookMarketingChat (co-hosted with TheRuralVA, Emilie Rabitoy) and #SexAbuseChat, co-hosted with C. Streetlights and Judith Staff. She hates walks in the rain, running out of coffee, and coconut. She lives in California with her family.
By Rachel Thompson | Blog
(*Please note: this post originally appeared in 2012. I now have three books out.) My two books were free for three days over Easter weekend. So were 4,999 others. So, how’d I do? Results: I had almost 50,000 downloads between the two and as I write this, A Walk In The Snark is #1 on […]
By Rachel Thompson | Blog
Many people who are new to Twitter are unaware of lists. Actually, I should amend that. They may be aware of them but are frightened and run away from them, scared they might bite or blow up. In fact, in a survey of Twitter’s own employees, less than half used lists! And in the […]
By Rachel Thompson | Blog
THE TOP SIX REASONS NO ONE IS FOLLOWING YOU BACK A very nice older man asked me recently on Twitter why people weren’t following him back. I offered to look at his stream and see what I could see. There were several things going on that were potential ‘turn-offs.’ He was a nice […]
By Rachel Thompson | Author Marketing
In addition to writing, I’m also a social media consultant. Notice I don’t say expert, guru, or any of those goofy words #thankgod Here’s my deal: I started my blog back wow, now about four years ago in ’08. Mostly because like you, I had something to say. And after hanging all day with my […]