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How to Win Readers & Influence Friends
Marketing is a big bugaboo for writers. Face it, most of us write because it’s better, easier, more comfortable than being around lots of people for lengthy times. I have training in how to be an...
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Building a Blog
On sale for only 2.99 in the month of June. In the last 48 hours I have written about 15K words of fiction, which is a lot, for me. I have about 20% of the projected length of the novel remaining, and...
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Mud, Glorious Mud…
“Mud, mud, glorious mud, Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.” Flanders and Swann – The Hippopotamus’s Song So come let us wallow… Now a few weeks ago I wrote of the poor fellow who decried the...
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Conversations
I’ve had a series of conversations I took part in this week, and in them answered, or helped answer, some questions that I thought applicable enough to repeat them here. Writing, publishing, cover art…...
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Breaking into New Markets
This last week I did something I have meant to do for a while, but haven’t had the time to contemplate doing: I paid for advertising, and coordinated a big promotional push for one of my books. Most of...
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I saw a book recently I’d like to buy, possibly. But there’s a problem. I just bought two books, haven’t had time to read them yet, and I’ve maxed out my book budget for the month. Drat. Oh, well, I...
View ArticleAsking for It
I had a conversation with a new author the other day, and one of the things we talked about was marketing. There are many ways to market your work. The trick at first is to pick one or two, work on...
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Marketing
Ah, such a complex and fraught topic. You have a product – in this case, most likely a book – and you want to put it in front of potential purchasers. You can’t make them buy it. You can pique their...
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