How to Rock an Author Event: Five Tips

How to Rock an Author Event: Five Tips

So you’ve become an author, have you? Published by a small press, or else a large one with no publicist, so that the onus of selling your book falls upon you? Welcome to life as an author, 2012. Because I’m an extrovert, marketing via public appearances...
Marketing Advice: Find Your Target Audience

Marketing Advice: Find Your Target Audience

When I began writing as a hobbyist in 2010, I didn’t predict the endeavor as encore career. I just wanted to have fun. After all, I adored my speech-language pathologist practice: I gave for living. I’d lived a purpose-filled life long before Rick Warren made it a...
Plot or Plod: either way you market, it’s work

Fee or Free – do some of each to market

Fee or free depends as much on your time, your tolerance for uncertain outcomes, etc. as it does your budget. While some authors swear by giveaway, other disdain the ploy. Sure, it’ll bump your Amazon ranking initially but over the long haul does it work? Does...
Plot or Plod: either way you market, it’s work

Crazy #8 Marketing Tip for Authors

Three’s a crowd, yet I’ve posted a picture of three for marketing tip #8 because we are going to enter crowds. These are three ideas in my continuing format of Dos and Don’ts of Marketing. I’ve posted twice/week this month, so you may review...