Today’s focus is my favorite author chats on Twitter, the informal and the formal ones. These chats allow us writers to go from focusing inward on our current work-in-progress, to focusing outward and networking with other authors and industry professionals. We become better writers and sales people of our products — our books — when we network.
You want it, don’t you?! I mean success as an author! What does that mean to you? To me, it means fame, fortune and giving my readers a satisfying and memorable experience that they want more of!
Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series. I like this guys spunk and scrappiness. Cool tool, too! A shout out to him: Follow him on twitter: http://twitter.com/travelhead Discover the unique...
This is #1 in a series of articles on Spark Your Creativity Through the Numbers for Writers, a new weekly series designed to inspire you, motivate you and get you writing up a storm!...
I learned yesterday in an awesome Human Design session with Julien Adler just how much I’m blazing my own trail. Darn! I look out into the field of other artist entrepreneurs and wonder how I can be more like them… Oops! I mean, what can I learn from them. Because I’m walking my own path. Other artist entrepreneurs like…
book marketing / Book Promotion / book sales
by Beth Barany · Published March 3, 2011 · Last modified March 4, 2011
Many authors think that social media is like traditional advertising, all shouting at ya’ . But it’s not. Social media is social, which means authors succeed at it when we listen and give back. If you just listen deeply to your audience and talk about the things that are important to them then you will be included in their tribe and they will want to buy your book.
I used to be a book reviewer, back in the early days of my writing career. In fact, the second thing I ever got published was a review of Katherine Neville’s The Eight. I...
Don’t use Twitter is you don’t want to have fun… Don’t use Twitter if you don’t want to connect with your readers. Don’t use Twitter is you don’t want to experiment with writing in 140 characters or less. Less is better.
Welcome to my weekly series on Resources for Indie Authors. Yes, these tips and strategies apply to all authors! We want to sell books, right? But we’re anxious about how to actually make that...
Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series. While artists are known for following whims and dodging routine, the Irish painter Guggi insists that hard-work, structure, and a refusal to put down even the most frustrating piece, are the keys to developing ones talent.
Creativity Tools and Tips / inspiration / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published February 26, 2011 · Last modified February 25, 2011
This is #5 in a series of articles on Creativity and Inspiration for Writers. Tips shared here are inspired by my e-book, Overcome Writer’s Block, and will soon also be part of a course at We Write Books community. How can we be a better writers, or get re-inspired in our writing? Let’s tap into our five senses. I’ve already written about sight, sound, smell and touch. Today is taste!
Since we often work at home alone, isolated from each other, we often forget that we only succeed in community. Authors write books. Readers read them. Booksellers and distributors get the books to the...
Creativity Tools and Tips / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published February 24, 2011 · Last modified February 22, 2011
Welcome to the another article in the Craft series, this one by Bobbye Terry, a frequent guest columnist at the Writer’s Fun Zone. ^*^ Do You Get the Message? Theme is one of the...
Author Career / Fantasy and Paranormal
by Beth Barany · Published February 23, 2011 · Last modified February 22, 2011
Welcome to the Wednesday series on Fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I’ll just come right out and say it! {I’m getting used to saying it!} I’m releasing my YA fantasy on February 28,...
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