Monthly Archives: January 2016

Author Writing, Book Marketing, Publishing Tips January 29

Author Writing, Book Marketing, Publishing Tips January 29

Blogging is an essential element in your social media outreach. The first quarter of the year is always a good time to kick off ideas to regenerate or just goose you to update what you are doing in the blog world.

Here is a quick 6 step formula to rock your blogs:
1.  Have a central idea or concept that you want to jump on.
Ideas are everywhere—sometimes even standing in line at the grocery story or observing fellow …

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Top Ten Twitter Tweets of January 28, 2016

Top Ten Twitter Tweets of  January 28, 2016

Today
Author U – Your Guide to Book Publishing, host Dr. Judith Briles of The Book Shepherd digs into a variety of writing and publishing insights each show. During December, she will focus on strategies to kickstart your publishing success … or reboot it. Today her guest is  Anne Randolph and the topic is Write Raw …Write HOT! … no matter if you are a ficition or nonficition, author, writing hot is critical to grab your reader …

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Author Power: The Secret to Author SMARTs Is Being DUMB

Author Power:  The Secret to Author SMARTs Is Being DUMB

To Become a MASTER … Authors Begin the Journey as a DUMMY
Are you dumb? Sheep on Dunce Hat
 
Throughout the year, my favorite Geek Girl, Kelly Johnson and I create a mini intensive on a specific topic … the goal is always to talk our small enclave of dummies to ace users over a three hour period of time. In the three years, we have delivered Tech Tool Boxes for the AuthorU community, the transition never …

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Author Writing, Book Marketing, Publishing Tips January 22

Author Writing, Book Marketing, Publishing Tips January 22

Two tools for you to consider …
 

Find profitable keywords – Meet Long Tail Pro
How would you like to nail down the ideal phrase and words to use in all your posts and blogs? TO be able to know what your competitors are using that might give them the leading edge? How would you like to know what key words and phrases your ideal buyer is using in Google searches? Long Tail Pro just may create …

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Top Ten Twitter Tweets of January 21, 2016

Top Ten Twitter Tweets of  January 21, 2016

Today
Author U – Your Guide to Book Publishing, host Dr. Judith Briles of The Book Shepherd digs into a variety of writing and publishing insights each show. During December, she will focus on strategies to kickstart your publishing success … or reboot it. Today her guest is  Beth Hayden and the topic is book marketing using your Blog and Pinterest—did you know that both are “hot” for moving your books? Beth is an online marketing …

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Tangled Web They Weave Time with Publishing Scammers

Tangled Web They Weave Time with Publishing Scammers

Oh … the surprises that get buried within the Holiday merriment. Here’s what happened in Predatorland on December 31, 2015:
“Penguin Random House has sold its Author Solutions division to an affiliate of the Najafi Companies, a private investment firm that at one point owned Bookspan and made an offer to buy several hundred Borders outlets after the chain filed for Chapter 11”was spotted in a Publishers Weekly blurb.

Their three year affair (Penguin Random Book’s 2012 …

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Author Writing, Book Marketing, Publishing Tips January 15

Author Writing, Book Marketing, Publishing Tips January 15

 
 

 
 
 
 
There are always grumbles about Amazon … it takes too much … it controls everything … I don’t like Amazon. My response: get over it. When it comes to eBooks, Amazon is the eBook God for sales in North America. Stats always flow about eBook sales. Don’t forget to do the MatchBook combo for both print and “e” sales. Here’s what’s popping for you to noodle on this week:

Amazon makes up a higher percentage of the …

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Top Ten Twitter Tweets of January 14

Top Ten Twitter Tweets of  January 14

Today
Author U – Your Guide to Book Publishing, host Dr. Judith Briles of The Book Shepherd digs into a variety of writing and publishing insights each show. During December, she will focus on strategies to kickstart your publishing success … or reboot it. Today her guest is Tom Campbell, VP of King Printing—did you know that January and February are the best months to get printing deals?–You don’t want to miss this—it will be another fast …

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Don’t Be a Screwed Up, Misguided, Resistant Author at Work

Don’t Be a Screwed Up, Misguided, Resistant Author at Work

Holy Moley … I just got off the phone with one of the many trust publishing service providers I work with and refer clients to. This time, I was the listener to my colleague’s rant—she was exhausted in working with a particular client … on that always had the “but” in her vocabulary, ready to flow at a moment’s wink. Repeated phone and Skype calls asking the same questions over and over. When the solution/response …

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