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7 Nonfiction Book Marketing Traps to Avoid

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The year I won the San Francisco Writer’s Conference pitch conference, I had just gained some really valuable information in a morning session. (I mentioned this in an earlier WNFiN post.)  The session was taught by writing-career-coach Teresa LeYung Ryan and public relations/marketing consultant Elisa Southard.  I’ve never forgotten the lesson Elisa taught me and shares again in today’s WNFiN…
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How Nonfiction Writers Can Find Personal Value in their Marketing and Promotion Efforts

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Happy Thanksgiving! It’s November 25th, and Write Nonfiction in November has just five more days left before the challenge ends. Blog readers have been busy reading, but I’ve heard little from writers. I hope that means you’ve been busy writing. I did notice, however, that many of the article on marketing and promotion garner less readers than others. I’m not…
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Why Social Networking is a Must for Authors

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When I mention social networking to my writing friends, they cringe. “It’s too time consuming,” they complain. “I don’t have time.” It’s true. Social networking does take up time, but so does every other thing you must do as a nonfiction writer to promote yourself as a writer and your published work. And promote you must if you want it…
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How to Build Online Relationships and Sell More Books

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Not every author wants to speak in front of audiences, although speaking has been the publishing industry standard for promoting books. (It remains the gold standard for building platform prior to publishing a book as well.) While most publishers will expect you to do at least some speaking as part of your book marketing and promotion plan—and even self-published authors…
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