Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Welcome to Twitter Tuesdays where I feature tips on how to use Twitter for authors by authors. This week we feature tips and advice from author and social media expert, Phyllis Zimbler Miller. She reveals what she wishes she’d known about marketing her novel before becoming a social media expert and how authors can learn from [...]

Welcome to Twitter Tuesdays where I feature tips on how to use Twitter for authors by authors, like the tips that will be in my upcoming book, The Writer’s Guide To Twitter for Fiction Authors. This week I dare you and share the dirty little secret of using Twitter for authors.
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What’s up, writers? Are you scared [...]

Welcome to Indie Author Monday. Today we feature a guest post by author. D. T. Gray how how to use the Internet to market our work
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Writing is a passion for most of us. It is a way of expressing ourselves and ideas as much as it is a way for us to entertain and inspire. [...]

Recently, I wrote a post on blogging for authors for Friesen Press, a self-publishing company that educates authors to get the best book they can out into the world. (They don’t pay me to say that!)
We met on Twitter (love Twitter!)…
Tak and I recently met at a talk I gave on risk and book marketing. [...]

Welcome to Twitter Tuesdays where I feature tips on how to use Twitter for authors by authors. This week we feature a favorite thing and tip about Sample Sunday from romance and erotica author, Betty Carlton. Thanks Betty! You can follow her on Twitter here.
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The answer is easy. Well, it’s easy now anyway. A year [...]

Welcome to Twitter Tuesdays where I feature tips on how to use Twitter for authors by authors. This week we have tips on building your platform with Twitter from author, poet and fellow book coach, Catharine Bramkamp. Thanks Catharine! You can follow her on Twitter here.
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A bird sits outside my window. He greets the dawn with [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Twitter Tuesdays where I feature tips on how to use Twitter for authors by authors, like the tips that will be in my upcoming book, The Writer’s Guide To Twitter for Fiction Authors. This week we have a personal story on how Twitter helped author, Alica Mckenna Johnson, build her author platform, and how [...]

Welcome to Twitter Tuesdays where I feature tips on how to use Twitter for authors by authors. This week we have 3 tips from author & musician, Gary Wayne Clark. Thanks Gary! Follow him on Twitter.
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1 – Narrow your Following List: Since you’re limited to following 2001 people initially, carefully select the people you follow that have [...]

Welcome to Twitter Tuesdays where I feature tips on how to use Twitter for authors by authors, like the tips that will be in my upcoming book, The Writer’s Guide To Twitter for Fiction Authors. This week we have a personal story on how Twitter helped author, Anne-Mhairi Simpson, build her author platform, and more! [...]

Many authors just getting started in marketing their books think that Twitter is a confusing beast. But actually Twitter provides us with a wonderful platform to show off our writing skills 140 characters at a time, and still share a nugget.
If you just dive in with your creative writer hat on, you’ll find ways to [...]

Major confession time. I stopped blogging regularly a few days ago, and my traffic has been cut in half. And I started blogging more about a topic that is probably not that interesting to most of my readers: my new novel’s blog tour. So two major faux pas, but I’m just going to concentrate on the first one.

Many authors stare at me with a stunned look on their face when faced with the prospect of making new connections on social media. It can be daunting, confusing, scary even. We may think that we’re starting with nothing and that’s a scary prospect. But actually, we all already have a social circle. We just need to recreate it in a new place and grow upon that.

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!

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!