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How Blogging can Boost Your Career and Income

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I’ve been harping on how blogging a book builds platform and, by so doing, helps you get noticed by publishers and agents and sell more books. However, there’s another great outcome that can be achieved by blogging a book—or by simply blogging: you can boost your career and make more money. How? By being perceived as an expert in your…
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Top Book Awards Authors Should Pursue

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Today I’m happy to turn over the blogging wheel to book publicist Scott Lorenz is president of Westwind Communications, a public relations and marketing firm . He’s going to cover a topic I’ve never written about before: how entering–an winning–contests helps publicize (and sell) your book. Plus, he’s provided a great list of contests you can enter with deadlines and…
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4 Ways to Achieve Your Promotion and Publicity Goals Online

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Whether you are promoting your book, building author platform to make yourself attractive to a traditional publisher (or to sell more copies of your self-published book) or trying to drive traffic to your blog or website, you can do this effectively online. Here are four tried and true methods for achieving your promotion and publicity goals with Internet-based activity—activity most…
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How to Get Subscribers (and Readers) to Your Blog

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If, like me, you have a blog, you want to make sure you not only get readers but also subscribers—people who get your blog posts either in their email box or via RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed. How do you do this? First, you make sure you have an RSS feed icon on your blog and you provide a subscription…
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Demystifying the Nonfiction Book Proposal: The Outline

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The second part of the nonfiction book proposal is called The Outline. If you recall, the first part of the proposal is called the Introduction, and included all the sections I’ve discussed in the previous 10 posts. (Find the first post in the series here.) The Outline includes three sections: List of Chapters, Chapter Summaries and Sample Chapters. I’ll discuss…
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