When I mention social networking to my writing friends, they cringe. āItās too time consuming,ā they complain. “I don’t have time.” Itās 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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Promoting Yourself Online for Writers: How to Get Started Without Losing Your Mind
Once upon a time I had a webmaster who did everything for me. Then I had another webmaster. At first she did everything for me, but then she encouraged me to be my own webmaster…unless I needed help. Now, I have control over my own websites Ā as well as over my own blogs. (I have two websites and three blogs.)…
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How to Build Online Relationships and Sell More Books
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 planāand even self-published authors…
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Marketing Nonfiction Begins with Creating Relationships
The first time I had the need to research book marketing for myself, a publisher told me to purchase 1001 Ways to Market Your Books by John Kremer. I immediately purchased a copy of the book and have been referring to it ever sinceāand telling other authors to do the same. So, when I contacted John to ask if he…
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How to Publicize your Book: Getting Started
Many would-be nonfiction authors make the mistake of not beginning to think about publicity for their book until after they have written it. In fact, they donāt even need to write the book until after it has been purchased by a publishing house, but they do need to begin working on publicity prior to ever submitting a proposal to an…
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