Most authors I know end up obsessed with book sales, usually to such an extent that they don’t write their next book. What a shame. They don’t realize their potential as writers or as authors. Yet, there is a way for you to avoid this pitfall while still selling and writing more books. Today, national publicist Annie Jennings of Annie…
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If you consider yourself simply a writer, an author or an artist, it’s time to catch up with the times—at least if you want to succeed (and earn a living). The final few guest posts during NaNonFiWriMo and the WNFIN challenge ask you to consider how you make a living as a writer and how book sales fit into that…
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A blog offers one of the best ways to promote yourself and your writing. It effectively builds your author platform, expert status, niche dominance, books sales, author brand, and income. (You can even blog your book—write, publish and promote it with a blog.) But how do you come up with blog content, day in and day out? In this guest…
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If you want to be a published author, you need an author brand. Since, most writers don’t know much about branding, I asked Rob Eagar, a marketing consultant and author of Sell Your Book Like Wildfire: The Writer’s Guide to Marketing and Publicity, to explains why you need an author brand and to offers insight into what makes one brand…
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You can do just about anything online, including a book tour, and do it more successfully than offline. Knowing how to do it is another story. I’ve had a lot of success with virtual book tours, so I asked Dana Lynn Smith, the Savvy Book Marketer and author of Virtual Book Tour Magic: The Secrets to Planning a Successful Book…
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