It’s the third Wednesday of the month and time for another Author Toolbox post. Whether you go indie or trad, you are an authorpreneur who has a business to run. Let me rephrase that: whether you self-publish, publish with a small-press or publish with one of the Big 5, you need to sell your books …
It’s the first Wednesday of the month! I would like to start out this post by thanking everyone who had participated in my July book promotion either via blog posts or reviews. Sandra Cox: Magic at Midnight (review) Jacqui Murray: Great Fantasy Books from Indie Authors (review) Juneta Key: Magical Pegasi (guest post and review) …
It’s the third Wednesday of the month, so it’s time for the Author Toolbox Blog Hop! More and more the visual appeal of something is what makes people stop and look, take in the message and then take action. There are different ways to use this and different places to use this. Basic The easy …
I learned a ton of things this year about running my author business. I thought about doing this as a series, but seeing as this is the last AuthorToolbox post for the year, I decided to go big. To learn more about the #AuthorToolboxBlogHop go here. I got advice from other authors, did a lot …
As part of building a better online presence (defining my brand and getting it noticed), I decided to look into more ways to grow my blog’s readership. You can find out everything about the #AuthorToolboxBlogHop here. That’s a mouthful! Though it’s the best I could do without actually naming the places that use RSS feeds. …
It’s time for a new adventure with this month’s Author Toolbox Blog Hop. Welcome to the third year of the #AuthorToolboxBlogHop, which is a monthly event on the topic of resources and learning for authors. Feel free to hop around to the various blogs and see what you learn! The rules and sign-up form are …
It’s the first Wednesday of a new month, whether I can believe it or not, so it is time for another round of the IWSG. Let’s start with this month’s question. Besides writing, what other creative outlets do you have? Well, we covered that one a while ago with my sewing post. Lessons in Writing …
G is for “Getting”. In my quest to find out everything I can about publishing, I decided to do an interview with Holly Evans who shares her publishing journey on her blog — inspiring me to explore self-publishing. How would you define the genre of your books? That depends on how specific you want to …
F is for Folklore. I know, we’ve done this one for F before. But this time it will be different. Everyone is gathered around the fire. The elder pokes at the logs; everyone waits with bated breath to hear what she has to share… Okay, not anymore. In today’s rushed culture, there is hardly time to …
B is for Branding. We all know that if we want to make it as authors, we need a brand. But it’s very confusing. So, I invited over Rachel Thompson from Bad Redhead Media to explain things for us. Awhile back, I wrote an article, Branding 101, which detailed the basics for writers what branding …
