I’ve already written a number of posts on what authors can do to partner with their local brick and mortar bookstores. In a guest post for Kobo, I even suggested, “Ask not what your bookstore can do for you–ask what can you do for your…
Bestselling author Ann Patchett says this was her outlook on her writing career when she was a child: “While I thought I might publish something someday, I was sure that very few people, maybe no one at all, would read what I wrote.” As I walked…
What is a Writer’s Platform? If you think of it as a physical thing, a platform is a raised area, like a stage, which would put someone above the crowd to be viewed by everyone at once. Online, it’s a central point to attract fans and future…
One of our Chicago authors posted a pain point associated with developing a launch team. After investing time and money to ship her books to a launch team in hopes of getting reviews of her book, she didn’t see the participation she hoped…
As we begin a new year of development for Hometown Reads, we want to create more opportunities to connect with and support authors. To that end, we’re introducing Thursday Connect, a bi-weekly, casual, virtual gathering for authors anywhere…
