by Sarah Hamaker, reluctant marketer With the start of a new year, our thoughts naturally turn to what we’ll accomplish in the 12 months of 2017. But if we don’t have a plan or idea of where we want to go, we’ll spend more time floundering and less time making progress. Top of your list of plans should be one that details what you’ll do for marketing.
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Hello, it’s Darlene Franklin (http://darlenefranklinwrites.com/) again! I enter the marketing arena with some fear and trembling, since I sit at the knees of people are masters of the craft, such as my publisher, Cindy Hickey. But I also know that I do more social media marketing than many other indie published authors. So . . .I share what I’ve learned by trial and error. Something is working right. A popular and fun use of Facebook is a “party.” I’m not discussing how to hold the party today, but what next? How can you utilize the momentum from the party?
Tips From the Pros: Loree Lough
Hello from Colorado. Davalynn Spencer, here, and so happy to introduce our pro today, Loree Lough. Loree, how many books do you have published? I have 105 (four more releasing between July 2016 and November 2017).
Writing Articles as a Marketing Tool
by Sarah Hamaker, reluctant marketer Articles can be a fantastic marketing tool for writers. After all, writers are passionate and articulate about our subjects, which can translate well into shorter pieces for blogs, magazines, newspapers and other forums, both online and in print.
Tips From the Pros: Marion Stroud
Davalynn Spencer here in summertime Colorado. I’m happy to welcome prolific author Marion Stroud this week for an encore visit with a few great tips for marketing our books. Welcome Marion! How many books do you have published and what are a few of your latest titles? I have published 26 books in all, most recently Dear God It’s Me and It’s Urgent and It’s Just You and Me Lord. These two books of conversational prayers for women are published in the US by Discovery House and in the UK and other parts of the world by Monarch Publishers, an…
Tips from the pros: Sarah Sundin
Hello, CANners and others who enjoy this blog. Davalynn Spencer here, honored to host our own Sarah Sundin, whose lovely visage we often see bringing us news of other authors. But today we hear from her about her personal writer’s journey. Sarah – welcome to the other side of the interview! Tell us, how many books do you have published, and what are a few of your latest titles? My sixth full-length novel, In Perfect Time (Revell), was released in August 2014, and Where Treetops Glisten (WaterBrook), a Christmas novella collection I wrote with Tricia Goyer and Cara Putman, is…
Marketing: Build Bridges to Your Books
Aloha from Karen Whiting! I’ve been writing for nearly two decades and continually spent time networking to build bridges and marketing strategies. We can’t do everything at once but with persistence we can build various platforms. Let me share how the past has been a bridge to recent and upcoming releases.
Mona Hodgson Connects With Readers
Davalynn Spencer here, from colorful Colorado, excited to visit with Mona Hodgson. I met Mona a few years ago at a Mt. Hermon Christian Writers Conference and have been awed by her maneuverability between children's books and historical fiction. Mona has some great tips for first-book authors. Welcome, Mona. Will you tell us how you became a writer? For as long as I can remember, I was going to be a nurse like my cousin Irene. That's what I told my parents and that's what we all expected. Although I had been more successful in English classes than in other…
Speaking Engagements – Creating A Speaker Resume
Hi. Winnie Griggs here again with the next installment in my posts about speaking engagements. So far we’ve covered why book speaking engagements, dealing with butterflies and selecting a topic. Today we’re going to talk about creating your speaker’s resume. Why is that necessary? Well a speaker resume is a great tool for growing your opportunities to secure better speaking engagements. And coordinators for conferences and workshops, who often get flooded with applications and proposals, will use this document to evaluate the potential speakers against each others and against their particular needs. This may be the ONLY tool they use…
Growing Your Fiction Sales
Happy writing from Gail Gaymer Martin at www.gailmartin.com Through the years, I’ve watched my friends use different strategies to help their fiction sales grow. Some work and some don’t, but the ones who’ve found success, provides us with lessons so that we might learn from them and try some of their techniques. Obviously sales grow most when your work is in the bookstores and when it is promoted and distributed by your publisher. So this means, mainly working with traditional publishers. Mine put my novels in store—book stores, grocery stores, super marts, and any place books are sold. They…
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