Previously we discussed how blog comments can help sell books. Similarly interacting on social media can also drive traffic to your author page and help sell books and/or products. I’ve written previously on the importance of engaging your audience on social media sites, so I won’t beat the drum of that in this particular blog [...]

I was recently on a forum when I ran across the following book marketing question from a member: What do you do when you feel like you’ve done everything you can to let the literary world know of your existence? For over a month I’ve been doing what I can to let people know who [...]

When my company Write One Publications, Inc. joined Twitter, my personal account had been open for a while and I was tweeting regularly. With my business account, I instead took a little time to observe the conversation of other writers and the publishing industry to determine the best way my business could provide value. Twitter has [...]

When I released my novel The Buzz there were quite a few people who had no idea  I even wrote. Aside from a few close friends and immediate family who’d been there from the beginning, the majority found out about my writing when my book was published. Some knew I was “creative,” while others didn’t [...]

Marketing was one of my favorite classes in college. The one thing that stuck with me from that class was the Rule of Seven: The Rule of Seven is an old marketing adage. It says that a prospect needs to see or hear your marketing message at least seven times before they take action and [...]

A few months ago, I blogged about my upcoming fiction project Rules of the Game. If you missed the post, click here. Since then, I’ve started working on a non-fiction eBook entitled Marketing & Publicity for the author that should be available very soon! I had no idea I’d ever write a non-fiction, let alone [...]

When I finished my manuscript for The Buzz, I had every intention on finding an agent and then securing a publishing deal. I did as most writers and sent out a few query letters and waited for a response. After the first few query letters were sent out, I had a change of heart. I [...]

This month we received a  really good question from a reader. Please feel free to use the contact form to submit your own questions, I’d love to answer them! I hear a lot of people self publish, but I’m truly interested in the avenue of gaining an agent. Question: What would be your advice on which [...]

In a recent interview with writer/blogger Synithia Williams she asked what inspired me? Before I could answer, I thought about why I write to begin with? For me, fiction is a way of seeing through others eyes. Releasing the judgment that we as humans sometimes have in everyday life and finding a way to look at things [...]

I had someone recently ask me in the Marketing & Publicity for the author workshop, “Which social media platform do you think works best for authors?” Every author will have an ideal platform(s). For some it may be blogging, others Twitter or Facebook, and some may do better at traditional marketing. It really has more [...]

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. – George Jessel I just got off the phone with an author signed to my publishing company and I was literally in tears laughing as we discussed her fear of radio interviews. I don’t [...]

Once I made the decision The Buzz would be a book that I shared with the world, I set short and long term goals. Initially, it was my intention to get a literary agent and sign to a major publisher. But early in the process, I made the decision to publish The Buzz myself and [...]