Anytime you create something and share it with the world, you introduce yourself to the opinions of others. Your creation can be a business, a piece of art, a book or even a new invention. Often is is much easier to fix than to create. Which means that comments and criticism are much easier to make than the actual creation itself.
Because of the changing nature of the publishing world and the revolution in electronic book purchasing, your book must be known throughout the digital world. This is where the author must work hard for success.
As a genre author with a small press publisher, or a self-published author, it can be extremely difficult to get any traction among all the millions of titles available. So how do you get noticed? A: Shout out “HEY, BUY MY BOOK!” all over social…
As a writer, it is hard to know where to start when building your author platform. The most important idea that I can impart to you about a writer’s platform is that the time to start is now. Not tomorrow. Not when you complete the rough draft…
What does it mean to live a life of virtue, to understand diversity, and to be committed to community service? What does it mean to step out of yourself and help make the lives of others a little bit easier? The Good Eggs is a trilogy of…
In my hometown we have a large organization of local businesses and it’s an honor to be a member of Springfield’s Best. I worked for that association doing office work and some marketing for several months. The whole idea is to support locally…
In my previous blog post, I spoke about the importance of embracing your hometown from a marketing perspective, how it can help you create a distinctive brand and enable you to rise above the pack. In my case, I’ve hitched my wagon to Las Vegas…
If we want to write, we must learn to be good marketers. Here are the tips that I have found to work the best.
How do we—most of us untrained in marketing skills—manage to make our books not just noticed, but desired–even craved by readers?
Even with a limited budget, there is much an Indy Author can do to spread the word about themselves and their novel.
