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 [...]

  In part one of this post we discussed why it’s important for authors to have their own website. In this blog post I want to share with you what to include on your author website and how to promote it. Its important to understand that your author website is in fact marketing your book [...]

If you are a non-fiction writer, establishing yourself as an authority is a particularly useful tool for marketing your book. If you are an expert in your industry, either through education, life and/or work experience, your audience needs to know why you are qualified to provide this information to them. You can do so by [...]

The below video has profanity. NSFW. “I would be out here crying sometimes. Nobody buys your book in the beginning, nobody supports you in the beginning. You have to keep after your pursuit of happiness. Nobody’s gonna give you nothing! And eventually what happened was you sold one book today. You only sold one book [...]

When I started writing the eBook Marketing & Publicity for the author, I’d never even thought about presenting the information as an eBook. However, I spoke to countless people who wanted to know how to market their books. So I responded to my audience. And this is the kind of real life experience that’s included [...]

In life we are often put in positions to share what we have learned and through our experiences we are able to prevent someone from traveling the same road or experiencing the roadblocks we had to experience. That is what Marketing and Publicity for the author represents. Since launching my novel The Buzz in 2009, [...]

Recently, I spoke to an author by phone. She’d found my company’s website and was calling to find out what marketing services my company offered. I explained to her that she could either purchase the Marketing and Publicity for the author eBook or a phone consultation. I told her that the eBook was a quick read and [...]

Just a quick note to ask everyone to check out a book review for my newest release Marketing and Publicity for the author. Fellow writer and blogger Melissa was nice enough to take some time away from her writing schedule to review my eBook, so please take a few minutes and head on over to [...]

When I first joined social media many years ago, I had no idea the impact social media would have on networking and relationships. With the knowledge I have now, I would’ve made better use of the early days. This was when Myspace was the most popular site and we adults were trying to market ourselves [...]

I’m a writer. In no way did I ever feel my brand would be associated with marketing and publicity. I wanted to write and publish books. However when I spoke with other authors, the path that their writing career had taken disheartened them. Basically…the idea that they were still working full time jobs and writing because [...]

Last week, I told you guys I wanted to talk more about the business side of writing and why I’ve chose to put more of my focus there. Now in no way am I suggesting that writers should stop writing and only focus on the business side. To the contrary… Write! Write! Write! If you don’t write you have nothing to market. However with three books [...]

Subscribe to The Life Of a Writer YouTube channel for regular updates! When I released my first book back in 2009, I had a small Internet following from my entertainment blog. While social media was extremely helpful in garnering attention for my book, I needed to figure out other ways to market my book, drive [...]