Write like a Marketer: How to Build your Writing Brand through Blogs
~ By Sofia Sawyer I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, first starting with some pretty basic poems when I was in grammar school all the way to full-length manuscripts by my early twenties. I was creative, always looking for ways to tell a story. It wasn’t until my mid-twenties when I […]
Promotion, Part 2: Poking Holes at Pinterest?
~ By Sherri Hansen * Read Part 1, Marketing The Old Fashioned Way, here. The general rule of social media is, do what you enjoy. I love Pinterest! I think of it as a big file cabinet with color-coded folders for fun things – except that I don’t have to dig through a bunch of […]
Promotion, Part 1: Marketing the Old-Fashioned Way
~ By Sherri Hansen So you’ve written a wonderful book. Friends and family who’ve read it rave about how good it is. Now all you have to do is to figure out how to get it into the hands of the hundreds and thousands of other people who you know would enjoy it. Marketing your […]
Timing is Everything
~ By Heather M. Miles I started my writing career with the idea that I would write a series. Pretty ambitious but it was what I enjoyed reading, so why not start with what makes me happy. I had my idea laid out and began the process of writing. I found out quickly that I […]
Author Promo vs Book Promo … Which Works Best
~ By Nancy Fraser Should an author promote themselves? Or, should they lean toward promoting their books? Is there a happy medium? Different publishers have different ideas and so do authors. The big push seems to be in promoting yourself as a person, using that personal connection to build up readers. Let’s take a closer look […]
