Social media. Love it or hate it. Utilizing it is a fact of life for authors. There are a multitude out there, with new ones emerging all the time. I understand how daunting it can be. Today I have a special guest post for you from Twitter expert Jo Linsdell. Jo is a best selling author,…
I met today’s Friday feature author Nshan Erganian through the local writers’ guild I belong to here in St. Joseph, Missouri. He’s a very interesting guy with quite a sense of humor. But I think you’ll discover that for yourselves as you read his interview. Q: What did you know going into this whole publishing…
Last week I had to complete the back cover copy for my upcoming book, Carried by Grace. The very next day I had two friends ask me about back cover copy. So I thought I would address that topic today.
You want to sell your books, right? But like many of us you don’t have the budget to hire a publicist or marketing expert. That means learning marketing skills for yourself. I know a whole lot more than I did when I first started freelancing, but I have a lot of room to grow, too….
We all know it’s important to take a break now and then no matter what line of work we do. But it’s even more important to refresh and re-energize ourselves when we’ve completed a big project. I recently completed the final draft of a manuscript and sent it off to writers and readers for feedback….
Today’s Friday Feature author interview is with Gloria Doty. Gloria has just returned from the Write-to-Publish writers’ conference in Wheaton, Illinois, where the conference organizers awarded her the 2014 Writer of the Year Award for her book Not Different Enough. (I highly recommend the Write-To-Publish conference; they have been helping writers on the road to…
Customized products for marketing businesses have been around for a long time. The problem was you had to bulk order. I don’t have the budget for that. Do you? Maybe you don’t even think of yourself as a business, but as an author you are in the business of selling your books. Unless one book…
When you open MS Word, you probably just start typing without giving much thought to the settings of that document. But those settings may not be the ideal for a novel manuscript. For example, all manuscripts should be double spaced, but Word’s default document is single spaced. Therefore learning about styles and templates will allow