Tagged: book publishing

Savvy Secrets to Build Your eMail List

Savvy Secrets to Build Your eMail List

Savvy Secrets for Authors to Soar eMail List

Get ready to discover strategies and tips to building an email list on your website that creates super fans and trust. Back again is bestselling author and content marketing expert Derek Doepker who paves the way for authors to build their sales.
During this hour, you will discover:

The “why” of starting a strategy to build your email list.
Why it’s smart to weed out email lists.
How authors sabotage their emailing …

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APRIL must be at event in Denver for all Authors … is that YOU?

APRIL must be at event in Denver for all Authors … is that YOU?

Join the 10th Annual AuthorYOU Extravaganza in Denver, Colorado
Pre Extravaganza April 8
Extravaganza April 9-10

REGISTER NOW FOR THE April 2022 IN-PERSON CONFERENCE
The Extravaganza celebrates Craft, Publishing, and Community for all authors and writers for over a decade. FINALLY, we can gather IN-PERSON next month. Attendees will join with presenters and fellow authors for this year’s event—we are making a difference event. Our goal is to help YOU soar with your writing and publishing as we help you learning insider …

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Author and Writing Immersion for Creativity

Author and Writing Immersion for Creativity

Author and Writing Immersion
Last weekend found me immersed … and absorbed in art. An art form that I hadn’t experienced to the level before. Last year, I had bought tickets for the Van Gogh Immersion Experience, tucked them away, and was reminded on Friday that my Sunday slot was surfacing. I have a fat art book on Van Gogh; my Heart Mom had stitched his famous sunflower painting for me that I’ve loved for over …

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Discover the top 10 publishing tips and trends for 2021

Discover the top 10 publishing tips and trends for 2021

Book Publishing Expert and The Book Shepherd Dr. Judith Briles takes a solo spin with the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast today. The topic is success—your success as an author.

Is there a book in you? How about lots of books?
Do you know the latest trends in book publishing for 2021?
Should you be an indie publisher or work on creating a deal
with a traditional publisher?
Do you know the power of creating a series and …

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Why ALL Authors Need a Professional Editor By Barb Wilson

Why ALL Authors Need a Professional Editor By Barb Wilson

You’re finished. After weeks and months of writing—adding, rephrasing, and deleting—your book is complete. Take a few minutes to congratulate yourself on your accomplishment.

You’re finished. After weeks and months of writing—adding, rephrasing, and deleting—your book is complete. Take a few minutes to congratulate yourself on your accomplishment.
Now comes the next step: finding a professional editor.
There are many reasons to hire an editor—what is the most important one?
You are an author AND a businessperson. Your writing …

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Authors Need to Ride Surfing the Publishing Wave

Authors Need to Ride Surfing the Publishing Wave

Thirty plus years ago, one of my author friends coined one of my favorite book titles: Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers. It’s all about change and slashing through the things that continually hold people and companies back. Fast forward 20 years. I ran into the author Bob Kriegel at a conference we were both speaking at. He was still talking about burgers and he reminded me of a story he told me long ago …

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Is There a Book in You? How’s It Doing? Get Resources for Success

Is There a Book in You? How’s It Doing? Get Resources for Success

Question: If you are an Author, are you happy with your book sales?
Question: Would you like to be an Author of a successful Book?
Question: Do you really know how Authors become rock stars who get minimal advances, if any, yet soar?
Question: Would you be thrilled with a few hundred copies of your book sold (average is less than 500) or would you like to sell thousands?
                       
Answers: The answers are in front of you. Within the …

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Stop the Book Insanity … Or Why I Don’t Want to Market My Book

Stop the Book Insanity … Or Why I Don’t Want to Market My Book

Stop the Book Insanity …
Authors sometimes don’t want to hear what works in creating a successful book campaign—campaigns that include the creation, the marketing and the sales of a book … they would rather keep doing the same thing … the thing that has produced no results. Which is usually sitting on their tush. Or if they did try “something” and it didn’t work, that they then choose to sit on their tush because …

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Book Editors & Publishing Are Like Peanut Butter and Jelly

Book Editors & Publishing Are Like Peanut Butter and Jelly

Book Editors & Book Publishing Are Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
Why so many authors think that their friend who teaches literature at the local college, or their sister who
loves everything they write and do is the perfect editor for their work is beyond me.

Your editor can make or break your work—she can shape and shore it up … or, put in some commas and check your spelling. There are now more self and independent …

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Extravaganza Take-Aways from a First-Timer by Sierra Rakes

Extravaganza Take-Aways from a First-Timer by Sierra Rakes

How does a college student feel when she walks into a hotel and is suddenly surrounded by so many professional authors? Well, imagine how nervous she’d be. That was me.
The AuthorU Extravaganza 2017 was not only the first Extravaganza I had ever been to, but it was also my first big leap into the authoring and publishing world that I have been so desperately wanting to inhabit. As AuthorU’s Intern, I had a small foot …

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