Publicity Tip #31 What Part Do Your Public Appearances Play? Having a book launch party and signing a few books at your local books store should not be the end of your public appearances. It’s quite the opposite in fact… Read More ›
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Author Platforms & Portfolios Pt. 2
Publicity Tip #30 How Your Genre or Niche Market Plays a Part~ One of the most important facets about platform building is understanding your target audience. If you’ve read an earlier Writerly Rant of mine, you’ll know that “everyone will… Read More ›
Author Platforms & Portfolios Pt. 1
Publicity Tip #29 Do You Need An Author Platform? ~ Whether you’ve been researching the industry for a while or just started you’ve likely come across the idea of Author Branding and an Author Platform and you’re wondering if this… Read More ›
Social Media – The Organization Channel
Publicity Tip #28 Is Hootsuite Right For You? Okay, so you’re either ready to dive into this crazy world of publicizing through social media or you’ve already started and you’re finding it difficult or frustrating to go to each site… Read More ›
My Writing Process – Blog Tour
Publicity Tip #25 The Blog Hop – A Virtual Marketing Dance ~ As you may have noticed, this is an unusual post for Monday morning. I’m flipping my editing and publicity tips this week as I’ve been invited to take… Read More ›
Raising Eyebrows & Author Awareness
Writerly Rant #23 Forget the Noise by Mikael Carlson, Author. It’s been a while since I have had the opportunity to rant. After enjoying my holidays, I went straight to getting the sequel to my first novel ready for my… Read More ›
“I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends”
Publicity Tip #19 ~ You don’t have to go it alone. Many writers are introverts – it goes with the territory: working alone, typing away, hitting the delete button, thinking, typing some more. Then, when we’re published, we’re told if… Read More ›
The Canadian Literary Scene
Publicity Tip #18 Know thy market well… In a recent conversation with Literary Agent Sam Hiyate of The Rights Factory, I learned a lot about the Canadian Book market. The DL – if you’re a genre writer you will be… Read More ›
Tweet This!
Publicity Tip #17 ~ Arm your twitter account not only with connections you like, but with ones you need. Join The Manuscript Wish List: #MSWL This is a site dedicated to bringing authors up-to-date information about which publishers are currently… Read More ›
Reach Out & Touch Someone
Publicity Tip #16 ~ Find a variety of avenues to expand your author platform with writing. We are writers after all, right? So, what better way to build your portfolio or your authors platform than by growing recognition of your… Read More ›