Whether you’ve created your own book trailer, used one of our resources, or had a super slick video book trailer produced in Hollywood, you’ll want to get the most mileage out of it. That means finding new and creative ways
Freebie Friday: Three Months of Bookarma!
We tweeted about Bookarma back on May 31, 2014. Now, the good folks at Bookarma have offered our readers another incentive, a free 3-month subscription for the first 250 to sign up. The coupon code to get three free months
What is an Author Supposed to Tweet About?
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
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