Posts Tagged ‘Book Promotion’

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 [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Q & A Wednesdays by Book Mentor, Ezra Barany. This week Ezra addresses how to price your ebooks.
Good news! This week’s winner of a 30-minute complimentary consultation of your book with Ezra is: Dan Calvisi. Congrats! We’ll be contacting you for your Book Mentoring session with Ezra.
And thank you to author, Dixon Rice, author of [...]

Welcome to Q & A Wednesdays by Book Mentor, Ezra Barany. This week Ezra answers the question, How can you motivate people to market the compilation they are published in?
Getting your book in a compilation is a great way to increase your visibility and the likelihood of you becoming a bestselling author. But if the authors [...]

Many authors think they have to do everything in social media, but cringe when they think if using _______ . (Fill in the blank with Facebook or Twitter or blogging or another social media tool.) And that keeps us away from even experimenting. But actually you just need to get active in the one (or two) venues you enjoy. Because your passion shows through!

Many authors have jumped on social media as the be-all end-all of book marketing, or they’ve stayed far away! “It’s too much!” they say. I hear ya! Social media can be SO overwhelming, or it can be useful and fun so you can get back to writing more books!

What Makes for a Successful Social Media Presence for Fiction Authors? Vision Drive Passion Clear purpose Excitement — All ingredients to a successful social media campaign. It — your success — all depends on what you would like. And it all starts in knowing what you would like!

Welcome to my Social Media for Author Tip Series, where I offer you tips to put into practice so that you can:

Connect with your readers and get to know them
Let them get to know you
Build your network
Contribute to your tribe!
Be of service
Create your author platform

So you can sell more books!
Social media is: Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, [...]

We writers know our story circles around three things: plot, setting, and character. I’d like to talk about character. I know you have heard a dozen different ways to create characters, but how about one more time, only with a different take on them.

Today’s Tip #5: The 5-5-5 Rule Often my workshop attendees, clients and students ask me, “How much time should I spend on social networking?” “How’s five minutes a day?” I ask. “That’s all?”

I’m finally ready to share with you my new course, We’re All In This Together: Social Media for Fiction Authors.
This 7-week online/teleseminar course starts soon! April 11th. Yes, we can do it together!

I have resources spilling out of my ears I so look forward to sharing with you!
I have tools and techniques to guide you [...]

Just a quick shout out to all the cool online communities I’m part of that support my life as an indie author:

Shewrites.com: If you do join — yes, it’s free — connect with me! I just attended a cool live chat with other YA authors.
“Hosted by Ning, She Writes nurtures a growing community of women [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to my series of Interviews with Indie Authors. Today I feature — quite proudly — the release of my husband’s suspense novel, The Torah Codes.
In celebration of the day, we’re doing a series of giveaways to blog commenters throughout the day! We’ll be giving away three lovely items:

at 12 noon, the mp3 album, [...]

Welcome to my Social Media for Author Tip Series, where I offer you tips to put into practice the your social media tips so that you can: * Connect with your readers and get to know them * Let them get to know you * Build your network * Create your author platform — Today’s Tip #6: Share — Share what? Share yourself, your humanity, your vulnerability, a slice of your daily life? Why? Because we all want to connect with each other, feel each other’s humanity, belong and be loved.