Monthly Archives: September 2017

Top Ten Twitter Tweets of September 28, 2017

Top Ten Twitter Tweets of  September 28, 2017

Today
Author U –Your Guide to Book Publishing, host Dr. Judith Briles of The Book Shepherd digs into a variety of writing, publishing insights each show. This week is all about author success and going onsite within the printing operation PLUS hearing about an amazing event in Michigan. ––Listen in live from the website or via iTunes. 

Tune in for the LIVE show at 6 Eastern, 5 Central, 4 Mountain, 3 Pacific and for our out-of-the-country members and …

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Author / Book Winners Announced in Dream Book Competition

Author / Book Winners Announced in Dream Book Competition

AuthorU is honored to announce and congratulate all the Winners and Finalists for the annual Draft to Dream Book Competition at the annual AuthorU Extravaganza held in Denver, CO this month. The Winners in each of the categories receive a variety of “prizes” including cover and interior design, ebook, audiobook consult, publishing consult, featured within Ingram when their book is published, one-year membership in AuthorU, Bublish, Association of Publishers for Special Sales and so much …

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Top Ten Twitter Tweets of September 21, 2017

Top Ten Twitter Tweets of  September 21, 2017

Today
Author U –Your Guide to Book Publishing, host Dr. Judith Briles of The Book Shepherd digs into a variety of writing, publishing insights each show. Taxes are approaching for authors in the U.S. Today’s guest is Carol Todd and the focus is on business strategies and how to deal with all the taxes that may be coming your way. –Listen in live from the website or via iTunes. 

Tune in for the LIVE show at 6 Eastern, …

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Has Your Blog Fallen Down and Needs to Get Up?

Has Your Blog Fallen Down and Needs to Get Up?

Summer “officially” passes this week. For authors, their eyes begin to look at upcoming Holiday sales. The thought of writing anything new moves to the back burner. Should it? Nope.
Keep your blogs ALIVE during this busy time … with new ideas, repurposing of old content … and not opening the door to an invitation of doing nothing–of letting stickiness creep in.
Have you ever had one of those days? Can’t think of a thing … not …

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Top Ten Twitter Tweets of September 14, 2017

Top Ten Twitter Tweets of  September 14, 2017

Today
Author U –Your Guide to Book Publishing, host Dr. Judith Briles of The Book Shepherd digs into a variety of writing, publishing insights each show. This week is all about book distribution and over all publishing strategies – Listen in live from the website or via iTunes.

Tune in for the LIVE show at 6 Eastern, 5 Central, 4 Mountain, 3 Pacific and for our out-of-the-country members and followers … you are going to have to do the …

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9 Lessons for Authors from the Author Shark Tank

9 Lessons for Authors  from the Author Shark Tank

This past week, I had the pleasure to, once again, put together the annual AuthorU Extravaganza. Three unbelievable days that made a lot of promises to attendees … and over-delivered. One of the events is the Author Shark Tank, a first-day event that invites selected attendees to pitch to AuthorU’s publishing pros. The pros want to help and indeed they did. Four pitches that yielded anywhere from $2,000 to $3,000 in takeaway value each.

I confess …

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Top Ten Twitter Tweets of September 07, 2017

Top Ten Twitter Tweets of  September 07, 2017

Today
Author U –Your Guide to Book Publishing, host Dr. Judith Briles of The Book Shepherd digs into a variety of writing, publishing insights each show. This week is all about Facebook with expert Andrea Vahl, co-author of one of the Dummies books on how to market your book using Facebook. Expect some surprises in what she shares–Listen in live from the website or via iTunes.

Tune in for the LIVE show at 6 Eastern, 5 Central, …

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The Author and Book Tipping Point … or why show up on the 7th will make or break your book.

The Author and Book Tipping Point … or why show up on the 7th will make or break your book.

Extravaganza fury is in the air this week. Yes, it’s the last minute. Do you go? Do you stay home? Do you keep doing what you have been doing this past year? What’s your tipping point?
These questions always surface as the Extravaganza approaches from anyone who is on the fence:

What and Why do I need more authoring, publishing and how-to information?—I mean, I’m on overload and overwhelm now.
Why would I want to spend money …

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