Growing Your Platform Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/category/on-book-marketing/growing-your-platform/ Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:36:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 You’re a Writer. Now Act Like One! http://booksbywomen.org/youre-writer-now-act-like-one-by-mm-finc/ http://booksbywomen.org/youre-writer-now-act-like-one-by-mm-finc/#comments Fri, 06 Sep 2013 04:00:38 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9300 My entire life had been in a single large city.  I loved the important hustle of the daytime and the somewhat dangerous excitement of the night. Art and fabulous food fed my deeper cravings. Still, I always felt that my forever life was waiting for me somewhere drastically different.  On impulse, I moved to San Diego, […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/outdoor-blogging-by-robinfollette/feed/ 8 9068 Media Ready Media Savvy by Alison Hill http://booksbywomen.org/media-ready-media-savvy-authors-workbook-by-alison-hill/ http://booksbywomen.org/media-ready-media-savvy-authors-workbook-by-alison-hill/#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:50:00 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=4738 Most writers feel that our work is to create the best book we can, and then we’re done, well, besides getting an agent or a publisher. But the success of that huge journey to write our best book is tied to your efforts in capturing the words and messages about your book that will create […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/media-ready-media-savvy-authors-workbook-by-alison-hill/feed/ 3 4738 The Challenges of Self-Publishing – And Why I’d Do It Again http://booksbywomen.org/the-challenges-of-self-publishing-and-why-id-do-it-again-by-jill-salzman/ http://booksbywomen.org/the-challenges-of-self-publishing-and-why-id-do-it-again-by-jill-salzman/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:15:29 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=3970 With a publisher, fame and fortune would certainly follow.  Right? The idea for Found It: A Field Guide for Mom Entrepreneurs came to me in the night.  Literally.  At 2 AM, I raced to a lined yellow pad and each of the 51 chapters fell out of my head and onto the paper.  Just like […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/the-challenges-of-self-publishing-and-why-id-do-it-again-by-jill-salzman/feed/ 11 3970 Breaking a Glass Ceiling http://booksbywomen.org/breaking-a-glass-ceiling-by-kristen-james/ http://booksbywomen.org/breaking-a-glass-ceiling-by-kristen-james/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:30:19 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=3731 You’ve probably heard of THE glass ceiling. There is another glass ceiling that everyone encounters that has nothing to do with gender; it’s a glass ceiling of negative beliefs. I dreamed about my writing career since childhood and strived toward being a career novelist. I had “big ideas.” But even while writing and working toward this […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/breaking-a-glass-ceiling-by-kristen-james/feed/ 10 3731 Authors, Are You Ready – Media Ready? http://booksbywomen.org/authors-are-you-ready-media-ready-by-alison-hill/ http://booksbywomen.org/authors-are-you-ready-media-ready-by-alison-hill/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:28:53 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=3040 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 […]

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