Category: marketing for authors
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On Wednesdays
and special book release days, I have a newsletter at Substack. So, if you don’t want the daily blogs (because yes, even if it’s light and frothy, I plan to blog daily from here out) then go ahead and subscribe there. Or if you’d like to support my writing financially, you can do that there,…
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Meet me at 6
I’ve broken out the wool socks this morning. Fall in Texas… it’s going to be in the 50s today. I got a frost warning on my phone notifications, and had a moment before I remembered that those were set up in Ohio… Need to change my location with that app! I’ll take 50s and sunshine…
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Paradigm Marketing Shift: Make a Connection
My thoughts on marketing were kicked off this week not by the social media data engineering post I shared yesterday, but Dave Freer’s thoughts on the publishing industry and the impact the pandemic is having on it. Once upon a time there were no book chains, and publishers had to sell to directly to…
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Paradigm Marketing Shift: Rule 1
This post started for me, as these things sometimes do, by something that was wrong on the internet jarring it loose in my brain. I saw the post below, and protested it. It’s wrong. It’s wrong on several levels. And it is also right on a couple of points, but the worst lies are…
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Indie Authors are Alive and Thriving
Author Earnings is back! I’ve been spending a few moments this morning trying to geek out over the new and improved dataset – it’s the bomb, it really is! – while helping kids get ready for school. I’m seriously excited over this report, which has been nine months in the making. If you’re an author,…
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Morning, But No Serial
I was contemplating serializing a novellette on the website – basically publishing it in 1500 word segments, then when it was complete, taking all those posts down and publishing it. This would, in theory, have given my readers here a freebie. But there wasn’t much interest, and after chatting with a friend and fellow reader,…
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Writers Have Vanity Issues [Repost]
A blast from the past… three years ago I wrote this, but it is still pertinent today. I’m reposting as it’s in a several month period of blog posts which got lost when I moved hosts a couple of years ago, and I need to dig through those and republish the good stuff, while I’m…
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Free Ebook!
I’m making Twisted Mindflow, a collection of 17 short stories, flash, and oddballs, available for free download. Whether you’re a fan and interested in the evolution of my writing mind, or you’re new to my work and want to get a sense of just how odd my stories are, this is my gift to you.…
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An Author’s Trial by Fire
I had a neat experience yesterday. I’d gotten an email from my school inviting students and staff to come see one of the instructors of English talk about writing and publishing. I was immediately curious, but wary. I did a little bit of research, which rocked me back on my heels and made me wonder.…
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Sticker Shock
This isn’t another blog about food, even if it looks it at first glance. Rather, it’s a blog about my love-hate relationship with bookstores these days. Also, my love-hate relationship with money. I love having money to spend on things I want, I hate not having enough to spend it without thinking first. No big…
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Eat This While You Read That: Kal Spriggs
For this blog series I have done lasagna, Alfredo sauce (twice) but not, previously, spaghetti. Today is that day. Kal Spriggs writes fun space opera, I reviewed his first one here, and recently has begun to produce epic fantasy as well. I was delighted to meet him in person this last LibertyCon, even if it…
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Put it on my Tab
Open Tabs on my Browser: Writer, Market, Reader I’m up at Mad Genius Club today, talking about what makes a real writer (versus what, a fake writer?) and exploring new markets. There’s a fine balance between writing what you want to write, and writing what a reader will want to read. Then, you have to…