I know I’m supposed to be on Twitter. But what am I supposed to tweet?And why would anyone want to read what I tweet? Before we address the value and use of Twitter for authors, a surgeon general’s warning: If
Creating a Virtual Writers Conference: Toward a New Tribe for Writers
Our thanks to Authors First’s Lou Aronica for this guest post! I belonged to two significant tribes when I was growing up: guys in rock bands and guys who loved baseball. I was briefly in the guys-who-play-baseball tribe as well,
Meet Our New WWW Video
So, we’ve had so much fun referring folks to our new video guru, of course you had to expect we’d want to have Evan produce one of our own! We asked Evan Staley to, in a minute or less, to
8 Ways Authors Can Use Pinterest
Our thanks to author Steve Piacente for this guest post! If 80 percent of Pinterest users are women and women buy most of the books, authors need to be on Pinterest. Problem is, authors traffic in words and Pinterest is
Video Book Trailers: Do They Sell Books?
It’s no secret that video book trailers are here to stay. We’ve worked with clients that have spent upwards of $2,000 on a trailer, and others who’ve only spent a few hundred. At what point (and price point) does a
Writers Digest Conference Musings
Day one of the Writer’s Digest conference in New York City and love the energy of the attendees and sponsors. An interesting mix of emerging authors: predominantly YA and sci-fi, but have been thrilled to meet a few literary fiction
Dry Spell In Your Writing? The Swing from Desert to Oasis
Our thanks to author, coach and speaker Kayce Stevens Hughlett for this inspiring guest post, and to freedigitalphotos.net for the wish-we-were-here photo! What does it feel like when you hit a dry spell in your writing or creativity? Does your process