3 Facebook Changes Authors Need to Know About
The competition to be king of the social media hill is hotter than ever, and Facebook cannot coast just because it’s on top. Snapchat and Twitter are making changes regularly to try to woo users to their platforms. In order to stay on top, therefore, Facebook needs to constantly innovate.
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http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2016/3-facebook-changes-authors-need-know/
Which File Formats Should You Use When Self-Publishing?
So you’ve written a book and you want to get it out into the world. You’ve decided that self-publishing is the way to go, but you’re not really sure how to turn that book on your computer into something that can be read by an eager public.
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http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2016/file-formats-use-self-publishing/
What is your literary challenge for the month? #marketing #writing #reading #publishing #August
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How to market your books & attract new readers with a blog #repost
From Matt Banner.
As writers, all we want to do is practice our craft in peace, but there’s more to being an author than simply pumping out new books left and right. We need to engage with our readers and produce content for them to read between major releases. A blog is the perfect place to do just that.
Today I’ll show you how to start a website you can use for your promotion and for engaging your readers. Then we’ll take a look at an infographic designed to give you new and exciting information and tools to help elevate your writing to new heights!
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http://katetilton.com/market-books-attract-new-readers-blog/
Why free is still a smart marketing strategy @storyrally #repost
by Jason Kong, @storyrally
If you’re wondering whether not charging for selected stories is benefiting your promotional campaign, you’re not alone.
With all the free writing flooding the internet, it’s harder to stand out. Even if someone downloads your free eBook, your fiction is competing with all the other stories on that person’s digital reader.
Given the ubiquity of free, it’s reasonable to question whether the market is saturated, thus reducing the effectiveness. I, on the other hand, believe free still works.
Let’s take a closer look on why that is.
http://elizabethspanncraig.com/4541/why-free-is-still-smart/
The power of your email list #repost
Imagine the feeling of sitting back and watching the sales flood in for a book you’ve only just launched – and all you did was send a quick email.
Sound too good to be true?
Not a bit of it. This is what thousands of best-selling authors do all the time. The secret is their author mailing list.
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Use Calibre to Create EPUB & MOBI Versions of Your Book #repost
It’s difficult to pack a library on a motorcycle, even with a sidecar.
Though I love print books I’m so often on the road that it’s more efficient to use my Kindle Paperwhite as a personal portable library for work and for pleasure. Authors send me advance reader copies (ARCs) for blurbs or review and books for possible publication with Misadventures Media. I wish they’d send me a MOBI file but, though it’s easy enough to do, they don’t even know where to start. So I ask for a Word doc and create it myself in about 15 minutes. Sometimes I put it off, though, and forget. So, no blurb. Sorry!
Please don’t put your potential reviewers in that position. It’s actually pretty easy to make your own EPUB and MOBI files using the free Calibre eBook conversion and management tool. It should take you about an h
– See more at: https://www.bookworks.com/2016/06/use-calibre-to-create-epub-mobi-versions-of-your-book/#sthash.xJjZQxbR.dpuf
https://www.bookworks.com/2016/06/use-calibre-to-create-epub-mobi-versions-of-your-book/
#BookPromotion on #Wattpad
Good reading 📚
Last November, I was finally convinced to try Wattpad. 
Then, later in the same month, I wrote about Wattpad being a special “social media” platform for writers.
That was early in the game…
I had a relatively small number of folks I followed and there were some following me…
I have four books there; and, will soon have a fifth—one of my books, my novel, was getting reads and comments and all was productive and fun…
Then, last month, my novel jumped from 1,ooo to 2,000 reads and my followers jumped from about 300 to over 1,200.
Today, I have 3,200 reads on the novel and nearly 2,000 followers…
What happened was Wattpad decided to Feature my book.
Suddenly, being on Wattpad is “work” yet very welcome and productive work.
Back in November, my novel was being read in…
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[@IndiesUnlimited] Mailing Lists and Advanced Readers and Bookfunnel, Oh My! #repost
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In my years as an Indie publisher, there have been a number of schools of thought as to what it took to be successful. In the salad days of 2012, the advice was, “Do a free run, then sit down and wait for the Brinks truck to back up with your money.” Those were good days, almost certainly too good to last. Since then, the advice has ranged from “write in a series and make the first book free” to “drive sales through Facebook ads,” to “use keywords and sharpened metadata to drive traffic.” Through it all, though, one thing has been constant: you need a mailing list.
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