Social Media Tip for Authors #4: What Are Your Big Picture Goals?
Welcome to my Social Media for Author Tip Series, where I offer you tips to put into practice so that you can: Connect with your readers and get to know them Let them get...
Welcome to my Social Media for Author Tip Series, where I offer you tips to put into practice so that you can: Connect with your readers and get to know them Let them get...
We writers know our story circles around three things: plot, setting, and character. I’d like to talk about character. I know you have heard a dozen different ways to create characters, but how about one more time, only with a different take on them.
Welcome to my series of Interviews with Indie Authors. Today I feature — quite proudly — the release of my husband’s suspense novel, The Torah Codes. In celebration of the day, we’re doing a...
Guest Columnists / Writing Craft / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published March 24, 2011 · Last modified March 23, 2011
Welcome to our bi-weekly posts from guest columnist, Bobbye Terry. This week she asks some great questions for world building your series. We’re curious to hear your tips too! Share your thoughts with us! Thanks!
book marketing / Book Promotion / book sales / social media for authors
by Beth Barany · Published March 22, 2011
Welcome to my Social Media for Author Tip Series, where I offer you tips to put into practice the your social media tips so that you can: * Connect with your readers and get to know them * Let them get to know you * Build your network * Create your author platform — Today’s Tip #6: Share — Share what? Share yourself, your humanity, your vulnerability, a slice of your daily life? Why? Because we all want to connect with each other, feel each other’s humanity, belong and be loved.
Welcome to our weekly installment on how to create your indie author success! This week I have a guest post from an award-winning author, Suzanne Tyrpak. Her latest book, Vestal Virgin, a historical thriller...
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!
Author Career / book marketing / Book Promotion / Indie Author Series
by Beth Barany · Published March 14, 2011
Hot off the presses! I recently asked my friends at the Indie Authors Unite on Facebook (and their site) what their #1 marketing tip was. Here’s what they had to say!
Future of Publishing / Indie Author Series / publishing
by Beth Barany · Published February 7, 2011 · Last modified February 10, 2011
Welcome to the weekly series on Resources for Indie Authors. All resources I use and cull from my life as an Independent Publishing Consultant and Book Coach, published author, and indie author in fiction! Most indie authors will do well to have their books on the Kindle, the Nook, and at Smashwords — which allows readers to download in multiple formats.
What is self-publishing really? And is it the right choice for us as writers? I had these questions too, and have done much research, and more importantly have taken the plunge. I am the...
On Ebook Pricing by JA Konrath: “I thought I would distill my thoughts into a new blog entry, and explain why I believe $2.99 is the new ebook standard.” JA Konrath offers the nuts...
Today, I’m instituting a new tradition here at Writer’s Fun Zone, and will list some of the best resources I’ve found on book marketing and publishing. Ideally, this will be a weekly post, but nature and the gods may have other ideas. For now, it’s an idea I’m rolling with…
Authors, are you searching for ways to become more visible to your readers? Do you want to stay a step ahead of the crowd in terms of cool technology? Or are you just in love with the idea of getting more eyeballs on your books? Then, check out Amazon’s new publishing program, Kindle Publishing for Blogs.
The rapid series of developments in the digital book space and my rising profile mean that I seem to be in an interview with a journalist just about every day. As I was yesterday.
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