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How Working With an Author Assistant Helps Writers by Guest @TheRuralVA
When it comes to hiring an author assistant, it can be difficult to know where to start. The possibilities are sometimes limitless, so it’s hard for an author to know which tasks they should hand off to their assistant or which they should continue to do on their own. One of the first things I…
Read MoreHere’s How to Use Medium to Build an Audience for Your Books by Guest @ShauntaGrimes
Building an audience is one of the hardest parts of being a writer. It’s hard for a lot of reasons. We want to create. We don’t want to be marketers. It feels weird and wrong to sell these stories that we’ve poured our hearts and souls into. We want to just write our books and…
Read MoreWriters: Did You Win? Find Out Now! (Week Two)
Did You Win Anything This Week? Week Two #NaNoProMo (National Novel Promotion Month) 2019 is off to a blazing start, with hundreds of commenters, shares, lots of interaction and fun. Most importantly, what have you learned that you didn’t know before, writers? Let’s review our expert’s posts from this last week and announce who won each…
Read MoreHow to Best Prepare for Book Marketing by Guest @CaballoFrances
Are You Ready for Book Marketing? Take This Quiz Book marketing involves so many steps. When people come to me, they erroneously think that all they need is social media marketing. Au contraire. Social media alone won’t cause your books to start flying off the proverbial bookshelf. So, take this quiz and see if you’re…
Read MoreHow to Make Your Book Marketing Plan a Success by Guest @MConnollyAuthor
When my agent sold my debut novel, Little Lovely Things, to my publisher, Sourcebooks, I had no idea what the next steps were. I had an eighteen month run up to publication which seemed beyond an eternity at the time. And my brain was, well, a little frozen by the whole experience. Thankfully, I functioned…
Read MoreWhy Writing Your Truth Is an Effective Marketing Strategy by Guest @JackieCioffa
What Is An Effective Marketing Strategy Anyway? When Bad Redhead Media’s Rachel Thompson reached out to me to write a post about promoting and marketing my books, my immediate thought was is she kidding? I have been an avid follower and fan of Rachel for nearly a decade, trying to emulate her badass self-publishing skills…
Read MoreThis Is How to Sell Your Book in 20 Seconds by Guest Sharon Goldinger
Could You Sell Your Book in Twenty Seconds? Picture this: You’re in an elevator, your book cupped in your hand, the title clearly visible to the other person in the elevator. While riding from floor 1 to floor 19, she asks, “What is From Fat to Fit about? You respond: “You’ll be inspired by the…
Read MoreThis Is How to Use Harder Working Links to Sell More Books by Guest @GeniusLink
Do you know what harder working links are and how they can help you with your marketing and even sales? As an author, you hear about a lot of great ways to maximize your income from your published work. Unfortunately, most advice around implementing new, or optimizing existing revenue is somewhat time intensive and often…
Read MoreHow to Make Time for Book Promotion by guest @PaulineWiles
Making Time For Book Promotion As authors today, we’re compelled to juggle more tasks and responsibilities than ever before. Given the colossal effort you’ve invested in writing and publishing your book, you know you’d be crazy not to dedicate some energy to promoting it. But with all that’s going on in your life, how do…
Read MoreWriters: Did You Win? Find Out Now! (#NaNoProMo Week One)
Did You Win Anything This Week? #NaNoProMo (National Novel Promotion Month) 2019 is off to a blazing start this year, with hundreds of commenters, shares, lots of interaction and fun. Most importantly, what have you learned that you didn’t know before, writers? Let’s review our expert’s posts from this last week and announce who won…
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