Asking for reviews and feedback for your books
If there is one thing I’ve learnt over the years of working with the t’Interweb, it’s the importance of asking for feedback and reviews. I do this all the time.
Top Ten Suggestions for Promotional Book and Author Postcards
I’ve been around and about on the web for more years than I care to remember and I’ve been given lots of reasons why most people should abandon the real world and focus only on their online marketing. The reasoning is that you’ll have a greater opportunity to find the people most likely to be…
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Book Bloggers and Authors
The relationship between a book blogger and an author is a strange one, and I touched on the subject earlier this year when I mentioned in one of my ‘Lesson’s Learned‘ posts that I was surprised by the number of authors that didn’t actively participate in the promotion of the interviews I’d done with them.
It’s NaNoWriMo … some resources for authors taking part
Well, its that time of year again, when authors hunker down and get on with the business of committing to write at least 50,000 words as November runs it’s course. For those of you who are taking part this year, I thought I’d gather a set of useful resources which may be helpful in ensuring…
Is this the end of publishing?
Ok, I know I added a video from YouTube to my blog last month; but when I watched this one I felt sure that you’d want to see it too … Come on, do you think that this is the end of publishing?
Inspiring an Author .. what you need to know to get you through
Sometime we just need to hear from others who have been where we are now, we need to hear what they have to say and the video below is the perfect fit with my Thursday Throng interviews, because almost every author that takes part who answers the question about advice, says that a writer needs…
How to Write a Travel Guide
There are many types of travel writing. There are the Berlitz style of travel guide which you pick up in the Airport when you’ve realise you don’t even know how to say ‘hello‘ to the locals in the country that is destined to share your holiday. These guides cover the bare bones of the tourist…
Understanding why anyone will want to read your book
This is the latest post in my off-on book marketing plan series and I’m hoping to encourage everyone to take a slightly different look at their book; the reason is that we all need to be realistic in understanding what it is that makes our book different from others that the reader could choose. It…
Please help me to help you get your message and writing to a wider audience
I’m going to make a huge assumption and it is that you are hoping your writing will eventually pay off in some way so you aren’t doing it just for the love of writing. I could be wrong but writing for the sake of writing, without any sort of recognition of ‘success’ (whatever that may…
How to set a realistic goal when it comes to your book
I’d like to suggest we share a cup of coffee together and to help you get in the swing of things I’ve added a picture of mine. Your book is your baby, you’ve worked long and hard to get it to the stage it’s at and it is hard not to feel downhearted when the…