SURVEY for “How to Run a Successful Blog Tour” I put this survey together to compile specific feedback to improve my How to Run a Successful Blog Tour course on Udemy. I’ve recently launched the course...
Audio / Author Career / Author Entrepreneur / Future of Publishing
by Beth Barany · Published February 6, 2013 · Last modified February 22, 2013
Last time I shared with you how I got started with turning my book into an audiobook with ACX. In this post, I’ll share with you my interaction with the technician as we created the audiobook from my ebook.
Once ACX said my book was eligible for a stipend to cover the costs of recording, my book was posted on ACX among all the other books covered by a stipend for the recording producers to see. The recording producers get to select which books they’d like to record, if they see one that looks good.
book marketing / Book Promotion / Twitter for Authors
by Beth Barany · Published February 5, 2013 · Last modified February 14, 2014
Free Roundtable Feb. 7, 2013 on Twitter for Authors: Social Media Book Marketing for Shy Writers by Beth Barany Free Roundtable Discussion–please sign up here! 4 PM PST | 5 PM MST | 6...
Another of my associates won the Ben Franklin award for her marketing book, and soon people started calling her to see if they could hire her. As a result, she started a successful consulting business.
When you request an authorgraph, you get a screen in which you can type a personal message to the author.
Oh yes! What I Learned During the Jan. 2013 Ultimate Blog Challenge — check it out! #1: It’s fun when we do it together! Michelle Schaeffer set up a Facebook where we could share...
Therapy’s expensive. Instead, say everything you’ve ever wanted to say to your exes at this reading on Wednesday, February 13, just one day shy of Valentine’s.
artist entrepreneur / Audio / Author Career / Author Entrepreneur / book sales
by Beth Barany · Published January 30, 2013 · Last modified February 22, 2013
Every month I get a large envelope in the mail with a happy check made out to me. This month it was over $70. The money was for the sales I made selling my audiobooks. I didn’t even do any marketing! Are you interested in some extra cash?
book marketing / Book Promotion / Twitter for Authors
by Beth Barany · Published January 29, 2013 · Last modified May 9, 2014
I reported a few weeks ago how Twitter provides opportunities for authors, and how I scored a cool opportunity via Twitter: to be a guest blogger on BookBaby’s blog.
Welcome to guest writer, fantasy author Gail Z. Martin. In celebration of the release of her new book, Ice Forged, she’s sharing what she’s learned the hard way about book marketing. Great tips! Thanks Gail!...
Inspired by being on Terry Odell’s blog this week, in her weekly column, Friday Field Trip, I’d like to take us a field trip to France, specifically Beauvais, France, which is the setting of one of my stories. Hope you enjoy it!
Healthy Writers Club / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published January 26, 2013 · Last modified January 25, 2013
About weekly I share my Exercise Log to stay accountable to my commitment to my health and to the Healthy Writers Club, a collection of writers dedicated to health and movement started by author Shallee McArthur. In this log, I also reflect on my writing, creativity, and a creative life.
You know how to help your clients, and now you want to reach more potential clients through your writing online.
Who hasn’t had a delicate question that burned to be asked? Who hasn’t been ashamed to do so? For many years, Dear Abby was at the center of American consciousness and she fielded all sorts of questions—from etiquette to morality to good taste—that baffled us in this modern American world that was constantly changing, morphing, evolving.
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