Posts Tagged ‘Broken Pieces’
How To Develop and Perfect Your Book Marketing
I’m overwhelmed and honored that over the last two months, my first Broken book, Broken Pieces, has not budged from the #1 spot on Amazon’s Women’s Poetry list. It’s also #1 on Women Authors, and somewhere in the top 50 (as I write this, it’s #24) in Memoirs (overall ranking alternates between 1,100 and 2,000).…
Read MoreTop 5 Considerations When Choosing How to Publish Your Book by guest @Booktrope CMO @ksearsbooks
Top Five Considerations when choosing how to publish your book Please welcome Katherine Fye Sears, CMO of my publisher, Booktrope, and kickass marketing chick, here to explain the three types of publishing (self, traditional, and hybrid), and the top five considerations of each. I encourage you to read and then pick her brain in comments!…
Read MoreWhat Works, What Doesn’t In Book Marketing
Is your book marketing the same as it was a year ago? I know mine is … and it’s kinda not (I know, such a female answer). This article is solely based on my own personal experiences marketing my three books: A Walk In The Snark, Mancode: Exposed, and Broken Pieces (eBook and now in…
Read MoreDoes Negativity Work As Motivation For Writers? Maybe.
‘Your work is unfit for publication.’ About two years ago, I removed myself from a very difficult ‘collaborative’ effort with some other authors. The statement above came from someone in the group and I’ll be honest, it stung. I’m not here to name names — that’s not something I do and besides, what’s the point? (I’ve…
Read More6 Tips To Help Protect Your Social Media Accounts From Hackers
What is up with all the social media hacks this week? I know it’s been bad for a long time, but several author friends have been hacked just this week alone — and it’s getting worse. How can we prevent this? We can’t. It’s really up to Twitter and the other sites to get serious…
Read More3 Tips To Help You Contact Book Reviewers
3 Tips To Help You Contact Book Reviewers! Despite multiple articles on this topic, I still see authors every day begging, pleading, and spamming their books to people on social media who: Are not their demographic Aren’t reviewers or book bloggers Don’t read that genre. Let’s deconstruct. DEMOGRAPHIC Do you…
Read More10 Things I Wish I Had Known About Being An Author
10 Things I Wish I Had Known About Being an Author When I first started writing my author blog (about four and a half years ago), I had NO idea the extent of marketing I would have to do once I published my first book. Now that I’m three books in (all bestsellers), I’ve…
Read More9 Twitter Basics You May Not Know
9 Twitter Basics You May Not Know How long have you been on Twitter? I’ve been on Twitter for, well, going on four years now. From the beginning, I sensed the enormous marketing potential with the platform, and that has only grown over the years. In the last two years, I’ve…
Read MoreHow To Successfully Sell Your Book? Have An eBook Version! by guest Danny O. Snow
Quick, fact-based post today on eBook success from publishing expert (co-owner of U-Publish) and author (Steal This eBook!) Danny O. Snow, who recently wrote a white paper for the New Communications Research think tank on 2012 eBook performance (and I’m beyond honored he quoted little ole me). Danny is a regular contributor to Publisher’s Weekly…
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