Tips and ideas for how to start and grow an email list as a fiction writer! Includes EXACT details of what to do (and not do) to grow a list of passionate readers. My friend Barb has a pseudonym, Bonnie Cavaliere who writes light, humorous mysteries. Barb wants to grow a brand new list of people …
I have written a fair number of books (26 to date) and while I AM a prolific writer, one of the reasons I am able to write these books with much less effort and heartache is that I have two great tools for writing a book that I use. One is my own Writing A Book Worksheet …
Author Marketing can be a scary place. Where do you start with all the different marketing ideas out there? Should you be doing Facebook or making YouTubes? Would it pay to set up an Instagram account or should you build up your email list? Start a blog? Do a podcast?…arggg!!! The funny thing is, none …
If you have written a book, YAY! I am super proud of you and can’t wait to hear more about it, IF I am your right reader. If I am not, there isn’t enough money in the world to make me give up my precious time to read a book that doesn’t interest me. That …
Authors today have much more opportunity and pressure than in the past. Let’s start with the good bits…years ago if you were not one of the “chosen ones” who editors deemed worthy to have a book, you were out of luck. Your dreams of being a successful author were dead in the water. Now-a-days if …
While there are lots of uses for this technique (non profits, associations, politicians, etc.) mostly I am talking to you, my dear Authors! It is always a great idea to see what national companies with huge budgets are doing and how they are rolling out campaigns that we could copy. What Is A Street Team …
Have you ever stumbled across someone on a Podcast, on their website or at an event and just totally became enamored of them? You heard them speak, saw them on a video or read their book and BAM it hit you, I totally dig them! THAT is what everyone talks about when they say you …
As I was launching my last book, Rainmaker Real Estate Agent, I made a WHOLE bunch of content that would sort of “swirl” around and help drive traffic to that book. It is working since the book currently ranks highly on Amazon for all my real estate categories and sales are climbing. Today I thought …
Today’s post is about remembering that everyone doesn’t learn the way that you do and that you need to be mindful of the learning styles you use in your online courses! There are three types of learning styles, Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic. Generally everyone has a primary means of learning that falls into one of …