Writers need to approach their book projects as business people. They need a business plan, a strategy not only for how they will write their books but how they will promote/sell them. This means they need to know who their readers will be and in what markets they will find them. Then they need to know how to infiltrate these…
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Joel Friedlander Offers Tips and Reasons for Booking a Blog
On Friday when I reviewed fellow blogger and book designer Joel Friedlander’s new book, A Self-Publisher’s Companion, Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish, I promised I’d publish the four questions I asked him about his experience booking a blog. (If you don’t know what that means, please refer to this post.) You see, I didn’t just want to…
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Taking a Close Look at Joel Friedlander’s “booked blog”
A few weeks ago I fellow blogger and book designer Joel Friedlander if I might review his new book, A Self-Publisher’s Companion, Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish. I had a special interest in doing so besides simply helping him out with some promotion on both this blog and my other blog, How to Blog a Book. You…
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I Did It! I Published on Smashwords and Amazon Kindle!
Yes, indeed, I did! I took one of my short books–a condensed version of what will one day be a full-length book, revised it, had a cover made for it, and formatted it. I then uploaded it to Smashwords and Amazon, and it is now available as an e-book in all e-reader formats. Whoo hoo. And you can do it,…
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5 Media Appearance Mistakes Authors Make
So many authors and writers are not only afraid but simply don’t know how to speak in front of audiences. Yet, getting up and talking about your upcoming or published book constitutes the pivot point for all your marketing and promotion. It’s also how you, an aspiring author, develop a platform, or readership, for your book, making yourself and your…
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