I just spent the weekend in lovely Tucson, Arizona for the sixth annual Tucson Festival of Books. Wow! There’s something about a gi-normous book festival that renews your faith in people reading…. The event drew well over 100,000 people, was
PubSmart Sponsors Offer Up Attendee Prizes and Gifts
More great news from PubSmart 2014! Attendees of PubSmart 2014 are already guaranteed access to many of the brightest minds in the publishing world, and a chance to visit with and learn from 30 exhibitors representing some of the best
Five “Other” Ways to Get Your Books In Front of Readers
Spring is just around the bend, at least says the daylight savings calendar, and that means here comes book festival season, a great way to get your books in front of readers, but just one way… We Love Book Festivals!
What Ellen Just Taught Us About Twitter: Best Twitter Lesson Ever!
Mid-Oscars, host Ellen DeGeneres says she’s going to tweet a “selfie” – self portrait – and asks audience members to jump in the photo. Now, it happened that the audience around her jumping in were A-listers that included Jared Leto,
How to Build and Use Twitter Lists for Your Author Marketing
Making Twitter lists is an easy way to keep track of tweets when you’re following a large number of people. Go to Settings > Lists to categorize the users you follow in any way you want. You can also subscribe
3 Ways to Make Yourself Quotable on Social Media
You Don’t Have to Be a Literary Superstar to Coin Valuable Insights, Says Award-Winning Author, Daniel Wick… Everyone loves a great quote that can summarize pages of paragraphs in just a line or two, which is perfect for today’s bite-size
Why You Need an Author Website… Even if You Have a Facebook Page
This is a common question among businesses as well as authors. With Facebook having such dominance in the social media space, is an author website really necessary? In a word, YES. Facebook is a great place to post your author