Posts Tagged With: Writers
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
“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
A.V. Harrison Publishing Answers Questions from IndiePub Clients
Originally published May 2011 In the course of being an IndiePub Coach I get a lot of questions about self-publishing, promoting one’s writing, and sales figures. This week I’d like to share the questions I’ve received over the past few weeks and the answers that I’ve given to writers considering self-publishing (not contract-publishing) their work. … Continue reading
The End Of The Publishing Wars – The Three-Year Revolution is Over?
Originally published 08 June 2011 Is it true? Could it be? I am reacting in this week’s blog entry to the headlines racing through the internet that ‘The Anti Self-Publishing Movement Is Dead’; that ‘Self-Publishing Writers are at the cutting edge of The Brave New World’. Why, I can just feel it in the air … Continue reading
