Archive for the ‘Author Career’ Category
Posted on January 13th, 2012 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to Artist Entrepreneur Fridays, where we talk about the fun, wild and scary ride of succeeding as an artist entrepreneur of all stripes and types and mediums. Welcome back guest columnist, Aletta de Wal. This week it’s about goal setting — essential keys to business and artistic success. Enjoy!
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Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to Artist Entrepreneur Fridays, where we focus having a successful author career from the business and strategic perspectives. This week I have another guest post from Matthew Ashdown, Book Promotion Specialist with FriesenPress. FriesenPress is a fee-for-service self-publisher. Matthew offers 4 useful tools that we can use to overcome being discouraged during our author [...]
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Tags: artist entrepreneur, artist entrepreneurship, author, authors, Beth Barany, Book Promotion, Friesen Press, friesenpress.com, inspiration, marketing, Matt Ashdown, novel, novelists, publishing
Posted on November 11th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
by Aletta de Wal
Welcome to Artist Entrepreneur Fridays, where we talk about the fun, wild and scary ride of succeeding as an artist entrepreneur of all stripes and types and mediums.
Welcome back guest columnist, Aletta de Wal. She specializes in helping visual artists succeed in their fine art careers. She’s posting regularly on “The Artist’s Alphabet Guide [...]
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Tags: Aletta De Wal, Artist Career Training, artist entrepreneur, Artist Entrepreneur Fridays, artist success, Beth Barany
Posted on September 30th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to the monthly series on artist entrepreneurship. Today we focus on 5 mistakes writers and story tellers make using criminal law in their stories — from our monthly guest columnist, Kelley Way, a lawyer specializing in literary law and other aspects of law. She’s also a writer! If you have general questions for Kelley on contracts or other aspects [...]
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Tags: artist entrepreneur, Artist Entrepreneur Fridays, artist entrepreneurship, Beth Barany, criminal law, Kelley Way, literary law
Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to Artist Entrepreneur Fridays, where we talk about the fun, wild and scary ride of succeeding as an artist entrepreneur of all stripes and types and mediums.
Welcome back guest columnist, Aletta de Wal. She specializes in helping visual artists succeed in their fine art careers. She’s posting regularly on “The Artist’s Alphabet Guide to Writing About Your [...]
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Tags: Aletta De Wal, Artist Career Training, artist entrepreneur, Artist Entrepreneur Fridays, artist success, Beth Barany
Posted on September 10th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
If we want the good habits of a successful writer, we start taking action today.
That way our good habits of today become our success of tomorrow.
This may sound like a bunch of pie in the sky hooey but actually its what I’ve learned from NLP. Most of what we do as humans are conditioned actions. [...]
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Tags: Beth Barany, kindle success for authors, nlp, Q&A Indie fantasy Authors, social media for authors, successful author career, successful writing coach and consultant, Twitter tips for fiction authors, twitter tuesdays, writing, writing coach
Posted on September 9th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
To define what an artist entrepreneur is I think we first need to define what an artist is and what an entrepreneur is.
But why even go there?
I’ll tell you why. To sort out my mixed up identity and claim something I think can exist but no one teaches. And maybe I’m stubborn that way.
I’m an [...]
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Tags: artist entrepreneur, artist entrepreneurship, author, authors, Beth Barany, book coach, book coaching, book marketing, Book Promotion, creativity, creativity coaching, editing, fiction, nonfiction, novel, novelists, writing
Posted on September 2nd, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Many artists, authors included, go into art because they love it. But to build a business, sorry guys, love is not enough…
What am I saying? It’s passion that got me here in the first place. Passion and determination.
And building on my strengths.
That’s such an abstract concept. Let’s break it down.
It’s a given that we’re not [...]
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Tags: artist entrepreneur, Artist Entrepreneur Fridays, artist entrepreneurship, authorship, Beth Barany, Elizabeth Aston, Elizabeth Edmondson, facebook, published author, social media for authors, twitter
Posted on August 19th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to Artist Entrepreneur Fridays, where we focus on a topic from the business and strategic perspective. This week I have guest post from Matthew Ashdown, Book Promotion Specialist with FriesenPress, a fee-for-service self-publisher.
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THE LANDSCAPE IS CHANGING BUT IT IS STILL THERE
By Matthew Ashdown – Book Promotion Specialist with FriesenPress
www.blog.friesenpress.com
We have been watching quietly the [...]
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Tags: artist entrepreneurship, Author Career, authorpreneurship, Beth Barany, FriesenPress, Mark Twain, publishing
Posted on August 17th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to Q & A Wednesdays by Book Mentor, Ezra Barany. Ezra answers the question, “What are you glad you did with regards to self-pubbing? And what do you wish you had known before you started?”
Self-publishing your novel is a great way to get your book out there. And here’s a tip on what to [...]
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Tags: Beth Barany, ezra barany, fiction, Q&A with Book Mentor, self-publishing, The Sunflower by Simon Weisenthal, the torah codes
Posted on August 12th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to Artist Entrepreneur Fridays, where we talk about the fun, wild and scary ride of succeeding as an artist entrepreneur of all stripes and types and mediums.
Welcome back guest columnist, Aletta de Wal. She specializes in helping fine artists succeed in their careers. She’s posting regularly on “The Artist’s Alphabet Guide to Writing About Your Art” [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to our bi-weekly posts from guest columnist, Bobbye Terry. This week she offers useful tips for us to treat our writing as a business.
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Tags: author entrepreneur, Beth Barany, Bobbye Cross, Daryn Cross, publishing, The Cash Chronicles, writing as a business, writing novels
Posted on May 9th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Hello fellow young adult authors:
I’m doing a blog tour this summer to celebrate the upcoming print release of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer June 1.
Today was my second stop here:
http://cawilson.blogspot.com/2011/05/weclome-beth-barany.html
Please join in: comment, spread the word; tell your teen readers! Thank you!
I’m doing monthly giveaways for books (print or ebook) and a Grand Prize giveaway for [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
What would it feel like if suddenly you couldn’t see? How would you know where you were going and which way was the right way? Sure those who are blind learn to adapt to the loss of vision, but they adapt by replacing the visual cues with other ones that become, in essence, their new eyes.
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Tags: author, Author Career, Beth Barany, Bobbye Terry, core vision, Daryn Cross, GPS, guest columnist, JFK, John F. Kennedy, Terry Campbell, vision, Wordle
Posted on April 2nd, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Um, yes. Book marketing is creative, imho (in my humble opinion).
I’m preempting my semi-regular Saturday series on Spark Your Creativity Through Numbers to chat about creativity and marketing and then get to it!
What is there to say? (I’m itching to get to work. LOL)
Like any creative process, marketing our books goes from first spark to [...]
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Tags: author, Author Interviews, authors, Beth Barany, book coach, book marketing, book marketing tips, Book Promotion, Book Reviews, book sales, books, creativity, creativity coaching, fiction, Henrietta the Dragon Slayer, indie authors, inspiration, marketing, nonfiction, novel, novelists, passion