Author Career / Book Promotion
by Beth Barany · Published January 22, 2010 · Last modified January 26, 2010
You’re in charge of your schedule. So set up a game you can win around social networking. Have a goal, which is how you “win” the game. Overall make your goal 100% attainable and fun, unless you also need to know you’re climbing to the top of a really tall mountain to motivate you.
I’m coming out of the closet. I am an author marketer and branding specialist. My business didn’t start out that way. I intended to help authors write their stories and their books. But one thing led to another and now, I help authors get to market. This means not only helping them write and publish, but also market their books. And developing their brand is a key component to marketing.
Author Career / book marketing / Book Promotion
by Beth Barany · Published December 1, 2009 · Last modified February 16, 2010
Every author, if you’re serious about your career, needs an author platform: who you are, your brand, and your list.
Learn from the Best — But where to begin? Where indeed — learn from the best. Learn from the authors who have gone before: more experienced authors. * Read their blogs * Follow them on Twitter
Author Career / Author Interviews / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published November 23, 2009 · Last modified October 30, 2022
I met Anthea at a writer’s conference several years ago. I liked her immediately — her creative spirit, can-do attitude, and open smile. Anthea writes with her husband, Lawson. Together they form the husband-wife team, Anthea Lawson. I had the honor of seeing Anthea (sans Lawson) again this past summer at the annual national Romance Writer’s of America conference. I loved their first book, PASSIONATE, and so in honor of their second book that was just released, I’ve interviewed them for Writer’s Fun Zone on writing as a couple, what makes writing fun, and of course, their taste in chocolate.
If you want to publish your book, you need to think about sales. Many people think that writing and publishing a book automatically means a passive stream of income, passive revenue, easy money. But actually to succeed in the world of publishing you need to sell the book to make the money. And that doesn’t happen by itself. Here’s the bad news. Publishing a book and all that it entails is a business.
Author Career / Book Promotion / publishing
by Beth Barany · Published November 5, 2009 · Last modified December 30, 2009
It you’re a published novelists, I’d like to get your input for an article I’m writing for The National Networker and other venues. We all read in our genre, pay attention to what has recently sold via PublishersWeekly.com. What other strategies do you use to determine what will sell? Do tell! Email me directly by Sunday 11/8 and I will send you my questionnaire.Thanks! http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/
I have a confession to make: I’m a writing addict.I have to write. Every day. Whether it’s a blog post, a piece of fiction, a marketing blurb or editing job for one of my clients, I just have to do it. Not to mention all the emails I write. What’s the cure?
Are you ready to create change now? That is the question my good friend, and author, Cari LaGrange Murphy is asking us all now. In her new book, Create Change Now, offers an effective, and inspiring tool to all you creatives out there! Here’s what she says:
Part of my quest at Writer’s Fun Zone, is to offer apsiring authors the tools they need to succeed. And what can be more fun than learning from the masters. Jill Lublin is a master at publicity. I’ve been networking and learning from Jill since we were both in book publicity over ten years ago. I slid into writing more seriously, and she dove deeper into publicity. A few years ago, I even arranged…
Author Career / Other Sites on Creativity & Writing Support
by Beth Barany · Published May 22, 2009 · Last modified May 17, 2009
This post is part of the wider vision of Writer’s Fun Zone: to share awesome, kick-ass content for the content creator. That’s us! Enjoy! Reprinted with kind permission by Writers of the Round Table: First posted there 17 Apr 2009 05:10 AM PDT As artists we have to create significant buy in from audiences and from those who can hire us for our services–that’s how we get paid for our work. We do that through inviting them into our world – which we do through story… Every single person we run into can fall into one of these two categories:
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