Your writing time is worth protecting. As an author, you don’t want to get sucked into yet another social media black hole. That’s why BookBaby has put together “Twitter for Authors in 10 Minutes a Day,” a free guide that will help you use Twitter to connect with readers, reviewers, fellow writers, and your literary…
Long gone are the days when the only thing writers had to do was write. With the advent of the eReader and the explosion in self-publishing, writers are expected to market their book and themselves — self-promotion baby. Social medias like Facebook and Twitter have proven to be a writer’s best friend when it comes…
Is it me or has anyone else noticed the massive spike in self-promotion on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites with the advent of the Kindle and the subsequent onslaught of epublishing? A day does not go by when I am not bombarded with announcements from fellow writers who have self-published their own books….
A writer friend of mine, Keris Stainton has just released her third book, Emma Loves LA. What is so amazing about Keris is that prior to publication of her first book, she had already established a wide fan base using social media. I interviewed her for Writers Forum UK two years ago on this very…
Without Being Annoying When we think of advertising we often think of banners and fliers and postcards but in the age of the internet, personal advertising or self-promotion has grown into many mediums. Here are a five socially acceptable ways that are taken for granted or often over looked when it comes to leaving a…
Twitter is micro blogging at its finest. I like to think of it as up to the minute live stream feed of chat and links. It is another good way to get into the network of fellow writers, bloggers, and readers. It is easy to sign up for Twitter. Just follow the link for sign up…
Last summer, I published an article in Writers Forum UK regarding an interview I had with the British YA author Keris Stainton. Before her debut novel, Della Says: OMG! had even hit the shelves, she had an established fan base. And she did this through the use of social media. She achieved this through blogging,…
When I was a teenager, my sister had a party while the rest of the family was away and she was supposed to be staying at a friend’s house. When I got home, I couldn’t find my diary. It wasn’t missing for long and I found it under my mattress (with a very unpleasant message…