Category: On Book Marketing
Authors, Are You Ready – Media Ready?
Authors, are you ready – Media Ready? Are you ready to answer questions? From fellow writers. Friends. Bloggers. Book reviewers. Radio interviewers. TV hosts. Questions like: ‘Who are you?’ ‘What’s your book about?’ ‘Why should I fork out twenty bucks to read your work?’ These are tough yet realistic questions every author must answer, and […]
Will Read for …
One of the great joys, and terrors, of being a writer is being asked to give readings. Readings are a validation of our work and of our ability to project that work before an audience. When they go well, they provide a rush of reinforcement that can keep us writing through those bleak Februaries of […]
Take the Comment Challenge
Three years ago, on April 28, 2008, when this writer started her first ongoing blog, even posting anything on the Internet in a blog felt like speaking in front of a crowd of hundreds, thousands, even millions. Truthfully, unless I was writing about something extremely topical, and wrote about it as soon as the news […]
Nine Reasons Why You Want to Be a Guest Blogger
You’ve got a blog. You’re already publishing content. Maybe you’re on SheWrites.com and in Red Room. You’re posting updates on Facebook and maybe Twitter too. You’re already connected, why would you take the time to be a guest blogger on someone else’s blog? Or maybe you haven’t stepped into blogging. Maybe you’re new to social […]
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