Tag: marketing

  • Wattpad: A Powerful Tool for Book Marketing

    I have an article up on the Kobo Writing Life blog today…check it out! 🙂 If you’re a writer and you haven’t yet heard of Wattpad (or you’ve heard of it but dismissed it), you’re not alone…and you may be missing out on a fantastic marketing opportunity. What is this weirdly named Wattpad? Essentially it’s…

  • Blog Tours 102: Working with a Blog Tour Organizer

    On last week’s Social Media Monday post, I wrote about my experience with setting up my own tour  in Blog Tours 101: Setting up your own virtual book tour. This week, I’m sharing my experience and tips for working with a blog tour organizer. Finding an organizer Finances are very much a consideration for me when…

  • Blog Tours 101: Setting Up Your Own Virtual Book Tour

    Blog tours to promote books — known as virtual book tours — are commonplace in today’s social networking world. While many services exist that help set up such tours, some authors choose to set up their own, often for financial reasons. Such was the case when I was looking to promote my debut novel; Sins of…

  • Twitterquette: 5 Tips for Authors

    When I first joined Twitter two years ago, I knew nothing about using it. Learning to post my thoughts in 140 characters or less was excruciating; talking to myself (because I had no followers to speak of at first) brought back unpleasant memories of my high school wallflower days; and I committed just about every faux pas…

  • A Writer’s Guide to Book Blogger Etiquette

    In the course of two book releases over the last six months, I have been privileged to ‘meet’ many wonderful book bloggers who have reviewed my books, allowed me to guest post, interviewed me, and participated in my online book tours. Did the blogger always like my book and give me a positive review? No.…

  • In my mailbox

    These arrived in my mail yesterday — making Sins of the Son‘s release that much more real…and that much closer! 🙂

  • Sins of the Son update

    So, apart from taking winter pictures and dealing with life transitions (again!) as my daughter finishes up a semester of high school and prepares to move to a new setting, I really have been doing some of that writing-related stuff, too. Honest! To bring you up to speed: I’m currently better than halfway through my re-read…