It’s not enough to just write a good book. Today, authors need help promoting their work after launch. In this guest post, Sandra Beckwith (@sandrabeckwith) from Build Book Buzz shares five places you can create the all-important community necessary to help your books sell well. An author in a Facebook group I belong to recently complained that she was having…
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âSelf-publishing is easy. Writing is hard.â I hear these statements all the time, but I think someone got these beliefs backward. For writers, writing is easy. Self-publishing can be hard. You see, writers write. Thatâs what they doâor you do. Yes, sometimes you get stuck or donât feel inspired or good enough to write, but, in general, you can write….
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Writers often miss annual promotional opportunities. In today’s guest post, Carolyn Howard-Johnson (@FrugalBookPromo), The Frugal Book Promoter, shares her strategy for using holidays an seasonal events to sell more books and make more money as a writer. Have you heard of The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans? It was originally self-published. Evans believed in himself (and his book) when big…
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As a nonfiction writer, you are perfectly equipped to blog a book. Thatâs great news for a lot of reasons. The most important reason is this: You should be blogging books! I know; you donât want another âshould.â But reallyâŠblogging a book (or more than one book) help you accomplish more in less timeâmore of what nonfiction writers want and…
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Thinking and acting outside the box can mean the difference between success and failure in todayâs competitive publishing marketplace. Thatâs definitely true when it comes to attracting the media, literary agents and publishers. However, one tool can help aspiring authors gain the attention of all these professionalsâwhile doing what they do bestâwriting. That tool is a blog. If you are…
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