As a writer how much thought do you give to public speaking? Lately, I’ve been giving this a lot of thought as one of the authors signed to my company has an immense fear of public speaking. While I do get a little nervous prior to an interview, once the interview starts I’m usually [...]

Authors, one of the first things you want to do when developing your marketing plan is determine your brand. What is a brand? The American Marketing Association (AMA) defines a brand as a “name, term, sign, symbol or design, or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or [...]

Republished by Blog Post Promoter 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 [...]

In an earlier post, I briefly touched on collaborating with other companies and upholding my brand. Since I launched my company and released my book there have been times where I collaborated with others to relinquish myself of having to handle certain tasks and other times where I collaborated to expand my brand. Collaborating and networking with other authors [...]

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 [...]

Republished by Blog Post Promoter 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 [...]

Republished by Blog Post Promoter 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 [...]

Republished by Blog Post Promoter “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein Even though I’ve been writing since a very young age, I couldn’t have planned a better career path. I just lived and let things unfold as they would. When I was passionate about nails, I went [...]

Republished by Blog Post Promoter 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 [...]

Republished by Blog Post Promoter Think and Grow Rich, In The Meantime, and All The Joy You Can Stand are all books that will have a permanent space on my bookshelf. These books all delivered words of wisdom that changed my outlook on different areas of my life. However, in 2008 I read a book [...]

One of the hardest things for me to do after I completed my manuscript was call myself a writer. I didn’t think I could claim that title if I wasn’t published. I had to overcome some of my own misgivings, and put in a bit of effort, before I was confident enough to admit that [...]

Republished by Blog Post Promoter Yesterday 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 [...]