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.
Since signings are public appearances, they’re unpredictable. You never know what’s going to happen.
How often have you journeyed off to some exotic destination and brought along your notebook, expecting to record your observations in prose so eloquent and poetic that it would forever change the perceptions and very lives of your readers? Or you at least assumed that the wonder you felt would marginally translate itself to the page, all that majesty entering your words through osmosis?
In anticipation of book 2, I’m growing my author list, so am {gulp} requesting for support and help from my Writer’s Fun Zone friends and followers. (I tend to be very independent and not ask for help; I’m changing that!)
Would you like to have your sales numbers compiled for you, instead of checking Amazon, B&N, iBooks, etc. every day? Would you like your ratings, rankings, and reviews collected and saved for you, too? Would you like an email every morning with the highlights of your books’ previous day activities?
Each time you apply for admission to a competition or pitch an exhibition, you are effectively applying a “job.” Your résumé is a list of vital information about your art career designed to support your qualifications for a variety of purposes.
When authors work with me, some of their challenges surround how to help the sagging middle of their novel. That sagging middle is often due to not knowing their characters well enough. All good...
Creativity Tools and Tips / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published January 17, 2013 · Last modified January 18, 2013
This simple example is just to demonstrate how deep POV works. Of course, nothing is ever absolute, and deep POV can get much deeper than this when you’re working in your own scenes.
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