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7 Signs It’s Time For You to Create an Online Course of Your Own

September 21, 2017 10:15 am / 1 Comment on 7 Signs It’s Time For You to Create an Online Course of Your Own

90 Jeffbullas’s Blog by Lucas Miller

55 years ago, a timid, unassuming high school student changed the world forever.

After his uncle had been killed by a burglar, he took it upon himself to hunt down the perpetrator. Soon after starting his search, he found the burglar, and as they stood face-to-face, he realized something …

The criminal was someone he’d seen before. In fact, the teenager had the opportunity to stop the burglar before, but he had failed to act.

Now, if you’re wondering what this story has to do with starting an online course, here’s the tie in:

read more: http://www.jeffbullas.com/create-an-online-course/

Do American’s Reading Habits Dictate How Book Publishing Markets Books?

September 20, 2017 9:56 am / 1 Comment on Do American’s Reading Habits Dictate How Book Publishing Markets Books?

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Americans love lists, statistics, and factoids that reveal some metric that they can compare themselves by.  If the numbers affirm their views, experiences, and circumstances they are happy.  If it appears they are better than average, they’re even happier. Out of ego, curiosity, or opportunity, we crave to know how we stack up against others. I recently came across stats on geography-based tendencies of Americans and wondered what this could mean for the book world.
For instance, in a recent New York Timespiece that highlighted findings from Facebook data that showed where users “check in when they are traveling abroad” the last four summers, a map can be constructed for each state.  Looks like Californians, Texans and a few other states each find Mexico to be the most popular overseas country. Oregon, Washington, and a few other states up north chose Canada.  But some states chose Liberia, Somalia, Ireland, Bolivia, Tonga and Marshall Islands.  Do these demographics help the book industry figure out how to market books regionally?
read more: http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2017/08/do-americans-reading-habits-dictate-how.html

Your Publicity Timeline: Is There a Best Month to Publish Your Book? @WriterUnboxed 

September 17, 2017 9:38 am / 2 Comments on Your Publicity Timeline: Is There a Best Month to Publish Your Book? @WriterUnboxed 

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Are you an author? Is your book about to be published? Are you wondering how to promote your book? 

Please welcome twenty-year veteran of the publishing industry Claire McKinney to Writer Unboxed today!

Claire has worked for major publishers, including Little, Brown and Company, Putnam, and Disney Publishing, and is now the author of a new book for writers called Do You Know What a Book Publicist Does? A Guide for Creating Your Own Campaigns. It’s chockfull of insights, and is so grabby that Therese consumed it in one sitting. Trust us: This book is jam-packed with good ideas. More about it:

READ MORE: http://writerunboxed.com/2017/08/25/your-publicity-timeline-is-there-a-best-month-to-publish-your-book/

Email Marketing for Authors: How to Use MailChimp

September 15, 2017 9:31 am / 3 Comments on Email Marketing for Authors: How to Use MailChimp

If you aren’t using email marketing, you may want to rethink your marketing strategy. We know that social media is all the rage—and rightly so—but email marketing, according to Kissmetrics “crushes” social media. Email Marketing Has Advantages Over Social Media Here are their findings: 1 – There are nearly three times as many user accounts…

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Email marketing for authors: MailChimp by Frances Caballo for BookWorks.comIf you aren’t using email marketing, you may want to rethink your marketing strategy.

We know that social media is all the rage—and rightly so—but email marketing, according to Kissmetrics “crushes” social media.

Email Marketing Has Advantages Over Social Media

Here are their findings:

1 – There are nearly three times as many user accounts for email as there are for Facebook and Twitter combined.

2 – Email is more personal. You can reach people right in their email inboxes and craft messages just for your readers.

3 – Email gets more attention and the messages are more targeted.

4 – You can use your email marketing messages to sell books, services, and other products.

If you’re considering going the traditional publishing route, your publisher will ask you about your email list numbers. If you’re an indie author, you need an email marketing program to keep in touch with your readers, announce new books, and solicit advance reviews, so you can sell more books.

READ MORE: https://www.bookworks.com/2017/07/email-marketing-authors-mailchimp/

.@WattPad Raccoon is a New Digital Storytelling App

September 12, 2017 8:57 am / 1 Comment on .@WattPad Raccoon is a New Digital Storytelling App

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WattPad has just launched a new digital storytelling app for the iPhone and iPad called Raccoon. This app leverages video to tell great stories that are told in 60 seconds or less. Each of these videos is brief, and they feature a true story told by the person who lived it. They can be funny, eye-opening, serious or entertaining. The experience is sort of like a popcorn confessional.

Wattpad co-founder Ivan Yuen said in a statement, “Raccoon’s focus is to deliver real stories from real people, and it’s a critical step forward in realizing Wattpad’s vision to connect and entertain the world through stories. As we look to the future of storytelling,” he says, “it’s clear that video will play an important role—digital video audiences are predicted to reach 2.15 billion this year alone.”

Read more https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/wattpad-raccoon-is-a-new-digital-storytelling-app

WattPad Raccoon is a New Digital Storytelling App

Novellas – Why Readers And Authors Love Them

September 10, 2017 9:23 am / 1 Comment on Novellas – Why Readers And Authors Love Them

Novellas – Why Readers And Authors Love Them

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What’s a novella? I hear you cry. While most authors are familiar with them, a lot of readers don’t know that what they are, even though they have probably read at least a few. The easiest explanation, simplistic though it is, is that a novella is longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel. The commonly accepted word count of novellas ranges from 20 000 to 40 000 words (although some say 50 000 and I’ll go along with that, as my novella An Affair With Danger is 46 000 words).

Famous novellas

read more http://storey-lines.com/2017/08/08/novellas-readers-authors-love/

Why an author’s platform matters

September 8, 2017 9:15 am / Leave a comment

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From Nathan Bransford:

Let’s say you are thinking about writing a book of nonfiction and want to have it published by a major publisher.

The first thing you need to do is assume that every single person in the entire world wants to write a book (which isn’t really an assumption, it’s basically true).

The second thing you need to do is ask yourself if you are the most qualified person in the entire world to write and promote that book. This applies to virtually all nonfiction.

  • If you want to write a cookbook, are you a nationally recognized chef or on the Food Network?
  • If you want to write about terrorism, are you one of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism?
  • If you want to write about an actual event that happened, are you a decorated journalist?
  • Heck, if you want to write a book about extraterrestrial encounters, are you an internationally recognized expert on extraterrestrial encounters?

If the answer to that question is no, then sorry, chances are you’re not going to get your book published by a major publisher. If you can imagine someone out there who is more qualified than you to write a book, then that person probably already has their proposal in front of publishers as we speak.

read more http://www.thepassivevoice.com/2017/08/why-an-authors-platform-matters/

Stop Worrying, Start Writing. How to Overcome Fear and Self-Doubt with Sarah Painter @TheCreativePenn

September 7, 2017 9:13 am / 1 Comment on Stop Worrying, Start Writing. How to Overcome Fear and Self-Doubt with Sarah Painter @TheCreativePenn

 The Creative Penn by joanna@TheCreativePenn.com (Joanna Penn)
 
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Self-doubt and fear of failure are a normal part of the creative process, but that doesn’t make them any easier to deal with. In today’s show, Sarah Painter talks about how to write during the inevitable ups and downs.

read more: https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2017/08/28/stop-worrying-start-writing-overcome-fear-and-self-doubt-with-sarah-painter/

HarperCollins Christian Publishing Launches New Self-Publishing Business

September 1, 2017 8:55 am / 1 Comment on HarperCollins Christian Publishing Launches New Self-Publishing Business

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If you are a self-published author who writes Christian fiction there are no definitive outlets that specialize in promotion and marketing. HarperCollins Christian Publishing and Accurance have just launched a new digital imprint called Elm Hill.

The imprint offers six tiers of packaged publishing services, such as sales, marketing, promotion, and distribution assistance through HarperCollins Christian Publishing. Authors will pay anywhere from $1,399 to $8,999.

read more: https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/harpercollins-christian-publishing-launches-new-self-publishing-business

How to Find Your First 10,000 Readers via @jfbooks The Book Designer #h2e

August 5, 2017 10:10 am / 1 Comment on How to Find Your First 10,000 Readers via @jfbooks The Book Designer #h2e

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Editor’s note: This post first appeared in a slightly different form here in January, 2016. However, its lessons are still as valid as they were last year, and Nick has recently opened enrollment for his groundbreaking course, so I thought it was worth repeating for authors today.

One of the reasons it’s so exciting to see new people coming into the indie publishing field is that they are constantly re-imagining the processes and strategies we’ve been using in new and useful ways.

Nick Stephenson is one of the most exciting authors to “crack the code” on how to build your readership, often quite quickly. There’s simply nothing that will help you reach your publishing goals better than a robust author platform, and that requires people—lots of them.

Nick’s system is so solid, and has worked wonders for so many authors, I’ve partnered with him to bring his course to my readers. He has opened enrollment for the course and accompanied it with some bonus materials that will be very helpful to you going forward.

I invite you to find out more about this opportunity while it’s available: Find Your First 10,000 Readers.

I asked Nick to tell us a bit about how he put his system together, and here’s his report.

By Nick Stephenson

A few years ago I launched my first book. A novel.

I had been holding onto the book for a while. I had decided it wasn’t good enough. Then I decided it was.

Then I re-wrote it.

I uploaded everything to Amazon’s KDP dashboard and sat back, mouse hovering over the “publish” button.

I waited 48 hours to click it.

During that 48 hours, I decided I didn’t want to find out what it felt like to have a failed book. A book I had spent close to a year writing, re-writing, and obsessing over.

Then I decided I didn’t want to find out what it felt like to have a successful book, either. I wasn’t used to people paying attention.

At the 47th hour, I realized I had found myself at a roadblock. I was scared of failure, but I was also scared of success.

read more: https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2017/06/find-first-10000-readers/

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