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 [...]

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 [...]

I am super excited about the upcoming workshops I will be offering in the Atlanta, Georgia area in October. By hosting my own workshops it will enable me to be a lot more interactive. Attendees can now expect a lot more social media interaction and depending on the workshop; examples of press releases, formatting, etc. [...]

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 [...]

I hope through this blog I’ve drove home the point of how important it is to begin marketing your title as early as it being just an idea. The above video is by a pro-blogger I follow on Youtube. I think this video nicely conveys the message of how much work it takes to have [...]

I belong to several online groups, nings, forums, and Facebook fan pages for writers. In the last few days I have seen quite a few pleas from writers asking for feedback on why their books aren’t selling. On the surface, all of the writers are doing the right things to market themselves. They’re using social [...]