Posts Tagged With: authors
Pinterest 101 – Don’t Let Pinterest Make a Pinhead Out of You!
Pinterest . . . is it ‘worth’ learning one MORE social media tool for your networking and marketing goals? Does Pinterest ‘blend well’ with the networking tools you already use? Does Pinterest have MULTIPLE uses – or is it a single use tool for reaching out to your friends and fans? These are the questions … Continue reading
The IndieAuthor’s Starter Kit by Emily Hill
Beginning the journey of an IndieAuthor and figuring out what you need-to-know, when, is like facing a tsunami head-on and climbing a mountaintop blindfolded (to mangle metaphors!) That is, (a) the amount of information is overwhelming (tsunami), and (b) you don’t know what you don’t know until you’ve reached the top of the mountain and … Continue reading
Book Bundling ~ Ensuring that All Roads Lead to YOUR Book!
This IS my actual bundled-book cover! Link: Ghost Stories and The Unexplained: Book One and Book Two I signed up for a workshop a couple of months ago, the purpose of which was to introduce new packaging and promotion ideas to authors. The workshop facilitator, whose own book is a play on the slogan, All … Continue reading
“The Envelope, Please. . .” I Won! The Versatile Blogger Award!
This week I learned of The Versatile Blogger Award, established by author Carley Eason Evans, author of Metal Man Walking. One more way for the writer’s community to Pay-It-Forward, The Versatile Blogger Award allows for a mutual admiration nod among writers and authors. The rules, the nominators, and the nominees are featured at the blog … Continue reading
Marketing Smart ~ Staying Current! Survey Your Attitudes and Outlook!
Once again the topic is take-to-market book selling. I am so stuck on the topic of book marketing and its importance that I have devised A SURVEY that will red-flag any weak spots that you, Dear Author, might have in your DIY marketing campaign. My 2012 ‘Bringing Authors Into ePub’ advice is somewhat counter-intuitive. It … Continue reading
Gosh! It should have been Literary Agents, and Not the Marines, Guarding the Gates When Saigon Fell!
I first posted this blog entry on 04 May 2011 over on my Brand X website. I’m moving it over to my Kathi Humphries Design & New Media website because it remains timely. This week I noticed a snark comment in my Twitter feed from Janet Reid, New York literary agent. One can only post … Continue reading
Cheap Books ~ Cheap Dates! eBook Pricing for the Sludge Crowd
Mark Coker, innovator of Smashwords, recently revealed that Smashwords has “less than 50 (authors) who are making more than $50,000 per year. We have a lot who don’t sell a single book.” Neither fact surprises me as an IndiePub Coach looking across the landscape. Somehow, somewhere was born the notion that to be a successful … Continue reading
Chocolates and Book Signings
Many new authors believe that one of the stops along the way to a best-selling book is having book store signings. Not so! I say. Book signings for the purpose of selling titles works well for celebrity authors, and politicians. I know one author – and writing coach – who had sixty fans at his … Continue reading
