And I’m back with another Five Links Friday. Sorry I missed out last week. I was fighting a weird fever and stuff, but I lived to see another Friday. 1. Indie Author News has some great advice for authors using Twitter. Take it to heart. And stop retweeting reviews of your book. Nobody cares. 2. […]
8 Things Writers Need to do Besides Writing
Sadly you don’t get to just sit down at your computer, write a book, send it to your publisher and then play video games all day. If you want to be a writer, you’ve got to do some work. A lot of work, actually. And none of that work even includes writing. Here is a […]
Promoting your book locally
Check out this chilling statistic from a 2011 article posted on The Motley Fool: Out of at least 1.2 million titles published by the entire industry over the course of a year, almost 80% sell fewer than 100 copies. Similarly, according to this article at Forbes.com, the average book in the United States sells less […]
Five Links Friday 6/19/15
It’s Five Links Friday and looking to be a great weekend. Here’s some stuff to read… 1. Is there a Grand Conspiracy Against Publishing Your Book? According to Iain S. Thomas, there might be. Click on the article and find out. 2. Derek Haines in his latest post asks a question all self-published (and most […]
No Excuses
I still remember something that happened at a writing conference I attended a few years ago. When asked what the most important thing an aspiring writer can do, one of the panelists answered: “Cancel Facebook.” A few people in the crowd chuckled, but one of the other panelists disagreed, saying that you need the social […]
Five Links Friday 5/1/15
And another week is in the books. I guess another month is too. I hope April was a good for you as it was for me. Onto Five Links Friday. 1. Let’s start with a great article from Wendy Lawton at Books and Such. 10 Near-Fatal Errors Writers Make (and how you can avoid them!) […]
3 quick marketing things to do if you only have 15 minutes
I used to think if I didn’t have at least two hours of uninterrupted time to put away for writing that it wasn’t even worth taking the time to try for the night. My, how things have changed. On weekends, it’s not unusual to reserve a two or three hour block and get stuff done, […]
The Business and Marketing Side of Writing
This might sound strange to the casual writer, but when you wrote your first word of fiction or published your first blog post, you were, in essence, starting a small business. If you’re serious about your writing, that’s how you have to look at it. Yes, it can be a pain, but the business side […]
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