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If you’ve been working hard to create an effective marketing and promotion campaign, then you’ve no doubt spent a meaningful amount of time on the essential elements an author must have to build a strong reputation: quality writing, great branding, networking, social...
Post, tweet, blog, repeat. Share, respond, retweet, repeat. As a writer, you may feel like you’re spending more time writing content for social media than writing your novel, short prose, or poetry. Yet social media engagement has become so vital that many traditional...
You’ve meticulously designed your author website to exact specifications, and it has all the features needed to effectively promote your author brand. Now it’s time to launch your author website and share it with the world! To ensure your website launch has the most...
As a writer, you've spent hours laboring over the personal stories of your characters, giving them depth and appeal. But what about your own personal story? Letting your followers, potential fans, and even literary agents and editors learn more about your own unique...
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Welcome to August’s Links Roundup! Every author needs a sound marketing strategy to publicize his or her writing career—and what better way to promote your work than with an online platform that can reach millions of potential readers? Whether you create your own...
As literary agents and editors read through your work, they might—if interested—do a quick Google or Internet search on your name to see what comes up. So it's important to have an author website up and running that will appeal to this important audience! How To...
Your author website is up and running, your headshot looks like it could be on the cover of People Magazine, and now you’re ready to lounge poolside while reaping the benefits of worldwide exposure on the World Wide Web. But not so fast—put down that margarita and...
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