Make Blogging Count: Three Tips to Your Success
Recently, I wrote a post on blogging for authors for Friesen Press, a self-publishing company that educates authors to get the best book they can out into the world. (They don’t pay me to...
book marketing / Twitter for Authors
by Beth Barany · Published September 15, 2011 · Last modified January 7, 2017
Recently, I wrote a post on blogging for authors for Friesen Press, a self-publishing company that educates authors to get the best book they can out into the world. (They don’t pay me to...
Welcome to Q & A Wednesdays by Book Mentor, Ezra Barany. This week Ezra answers the question, How can you motivate people to market the compilation they are published in? Getting your book in a compilation...
Welcome to Twitter Tuesdays where I feature tips on how to use Twitter for authors by authors. This week we have 3 tips from author & musician, Gary Wayne Clark. Thanks Gary! Follow him...
by Beth Barany · Published April 27, 2011 · Last modified July 30, 2018
REVIEW POLICY We review books for creative writers and creative leaders, which is anyone wishing to craft a career as a novelist. If you’d like one of our writers to review your book, contact...
What Makes for a Successful Social Media Presence for Fiction Authors? Vision Drive Passion Clear purpose Excitement — All ingredients to a successful social media campaign. It — your success — all depends on what you would like. And it all starts in knowing what you would like!
Many authors think that the writing and publishing is the hard part. But actually your work is just getting started. Are you making time to market, connect with your readers, or even communicate to your readers and tell the world that your cool book is available or soon will be?! If you just take a few steps regularly — 15 to 30 minutes a day — you’ll find more readers, create more opportunities for people to tell their friends about you and ultimately sell more books!
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!
book marketing / Book Promotion
by Beth Barany · Published January 4, 2011 · Last modified August 15, 2024
Many authors think that book promotions are about giving away tchotchkes, like bookmarks, key rings, coffee mugs to get attention for their books. But actually, book promotions start with one the most powerful yet overlooked methods to promote your books: by what you actually say.
by Dana Lynn Smith Online networking can be a terrific book promotion tool, but there’s sometimes a fine line between letting your contacts know about your book and being overly promotional. If you’re too...
Book Promotion / book sales / publishing
by Beth Barany · Published September 28, 2010 · Last modified December 22, 2013
More and more romance authors are independently publishing on the Kindle. I sat down with two women from the San Francisco Romance Writers of America chapter to uncover more about this phenomenon and discover...
book marketing / Book Promotion
by Beth Barany · Published September 15, 2010 · Last modified September 17, 2010
The call to action in today’s 31 Days Blog Challenge is all about Sneeze pages. (Achhoo!) You know, Best Of and all that. Good for SEO, google love. So, I’m doing a Top 5...
book marketing / Book Promotion
by Beth Barany · Published June 9, 2010 · Last modified March 21, 2018
What can an unpublished author do to promote when there’s no book? You may think that book promotions starts when your first book is coming out, but actually book promotions start as soon as...
You may think that writing a nonfiction bestseller is hard. But actually, a nonfiction bestseller is easy to create and sell, but not simple. If you just put into place a few key aspects, then you will have a book your audience can’t wait to buy.
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