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Your novel is done and you’re ready to start hyping characters and plot on social media, which is the current marketing tool of choice, right? Only in part. Social media is important. Same with building hype with blog endorsements. Before you get to those, though, you need a good title. Studies suggest that the average reader […]

Make Friends With Book BloggersOne of the top questions I hear from authors when discussing book discoverability and marketing is “What can I do that doesn’t cost a lot of money?”My Response Is Always: Make Friends With BloggersUnfortunately, I see way too many authors only using bloggers as review generators and failing to make any […]

Writers – We Have Winners!That’s so much fun to write. Can you believe we’ve finished #NaNoProMo Week Three? Let’s get to it! Day FifteenHere’s How to Use Medium to Build an Audience for Your Books by Guest @ShauntaGrimesA one-hour phone consultation about writing on Medium (Valued at $150) and the winner is Kelly Williams Day SixteenHow […]

Are You Ready for Book Marketing? Take This QuizBook 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 ready to tackle […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 each fantastic […]

If there is one common thread that runs through every author it’s this: we don’t have enough time! For writing, for book marketing, for any of it (whatever it is). Sometimes when we see a huge task ahead of us, like book marketing, we tend to focus on it as a whole. And that can be […]

How Your Writing Posse Helps Now There’s lots of talk in writing circles, and rightly so, about the value of a writing posse, tribe, or group to help you generate high-quality work, and finish your projects. Hopefully, you’re familiar with the encouragement, accountability, and critique these groups can offer, and you’ve explored both local and online […]

5 Reasons Author Tribes Will Make You a Better Writer When I started fiction writing, I knew nothing about the actual process much less all the other roles one must take on in the author world of publishing, public relations, and marketing. My innate sense for scoping out how to do things helped. Since not everyone […]