Last night I was at my local chapter meeting of the California Writer’s Club. I made an announcement about a great workshop we have coming up about writing, publishing and promoting ebooks. It features founder and CEO of Smashwords.com Mark Coker speaking for four hours–for the first time ever!–about the ebook revolution and how to get in on this publishing…
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Once upon a time I was very nervous about getting media placements and talking on the radio. Like most writers, I preferred to simply write, not speak–even if no one could actually see me. I even remember a time when I used a complete script to answer questions asked by the radio host and never varied at all from my…
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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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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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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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