Here comes book festival season! We hear of a new book fest every day around the WWW office, and today received a cool post on how an author can break out from the pack to sell their work at a
For the Cause: Indie Publishing and Affinity Marketing
Thanks to author Mary Hutchings Reed for this guest post! One of the hardest things for me to do as an independently published author (a.k.a. “self-published”) is to hawk my own books. Yes, I know that every author, even those
How Sharing Drives Your Author Marketing
I read a book review in the NY Times book review section this morning. I know that my friend is going to want to read it because it’s a review of three recent books written about Chicago. So I’ve saved
Seven Ways to Put Google Alerts to Work for You
Google Alerts is easily one of the most useful free author marketing tools on the internet. You can pick any keyword or phrase to set in your alerts, and decide whether you want to see as-it-happens, daily or weekly results
Why Big Authors Are Turning to Self Publishing
We found it interesting that famed author Anne Rice shared a link via Facebook yesterday from an April 16 New York Times article, New Publisher Authors Trust: Themselves by Leslie Kaufman. The article (view full text in the link) discusses
Even Bloggers Need to Practice Good Journalism
Members of the WWW team had the chance to attend the Dig South conference in Charleston this past weekend. Besides presenting on an interesting panel on the state of publishing today, we had the opportunity to attend several sessions on
When Writers Make Connections
We all know the value of connecting with those agents and editors and “big time” authors at writers conferences. But sometimes overlooked, yet equally important are the connections we can make with fellow emerging authors. Case in point: The Southern