Category: marketing
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Infographic Tuesday: How to Build a Book Audience
With social media, an author can build an audience for his or her books from home. But there’s more to it as this infographic from Now Novel indicates. Photo by freestocks.org from Pexels
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Are Writers in Competition With Each Other?
This is something I’ve been wondering about for a while: are writers, especially indie writers, in competition with each other? It’s easy to see another’s writer’s success and become … jealous? Envious? Maybe, on Facebook, you’ve seen a writer you follow sell their latest manuscript, or maybe, on Twitter, an author celebrates selling another hundred…
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Hope this is a Growing Trend
Ten years ago, my city had so many more bookstores than it does now. Both locally- owned and major retailers took hits, and I hated to see them close. Remember Borders Bookstores? Yes, part of it is Amazon’s fault. Part of it was my fault for buying books online. But it’s so convenient! I still…
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How to sell more books
I can across the article on getting your book noticed. It has some good ideas.
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Some Tips on Self-publishing
I went to some workshops on self-publishing at Imaginarium 2019. Here are a few tidbits I came across: Consider wide distribute-Don’t just put the ebook versions of your novels on Amazon KDP; also use Kobo, Smashwords, iBooks, etc.). If you opt to enroll your ebooks in KDP select, you can’t place them on any other…
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Five Tips on Marketing
While at Imaginarium 2019, I ended up going to more workshops on marketing than I had planned. I realized creating awareness of a novel presents itself as a whole separate part of the publishing process than its creation. I managed to come away from the conference with several pages of notes. I want to share…
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Gravitating Toward Marketing as an Indie Writer
When I checked out the workshop and panel listings for Imaginarium 2019, I originally planned to attend the ones geared toward the writing craft. After thinking about it, I gravitated toward the workshops on marketing books because I realized I needed those more. In the exhibitor’s hall, I saw Michael Knost’s booth. He had been…
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What I took away from Imaginarium 2019
Last weekend, I attended Imaginarium 2019. It is a conference for writers, gamers and film makers. Never having attended this type of conference before, I wasn’t sure what to expect. The location of the conference was only 10 minutes away, so I didn’t have to get a hotel; I just went home at the end…
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Friday’s Findings
Articles on writing I’ve read lately … This Is How to Transform Info Dumps into Exciting Plot Reveals How to Easily Create a Book Outline for a Novel in Less Than an Hour NaNoWriMo Prep (Free Character Worksheet) The Difference Between Topic and Theme Storytelling Exercise: Plot Analysis 12 Signs You’re Afraid of Your WIP…
