Every now and then you read a gloom and doom post about blogging like “Is blogging dead?” or “Where are all the bloggers?” Blogging is far from dead. Some people who were blogging five days a week four years ago may have slowed down or quit because they got burned out, and there’s no question […]
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June 21st, 2014 | Tags: author blogs, blog, Blogger, blogging, blogging class, Book Passage, Marin, Meghan Ward, San Francisco, SF Grotto, SF Writers' Grotto, Social Media, social network, The Grotto, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 14 comments - (Comments are closed) Last month I posted an interview with SheBooks co-founder Laura Fraser. This month I want to discuss a few things about what I learned by publishing my first book, Runway, and what I plan to do differently next time. Photo courtesy of NASA
1. Are you blogging to the wrong audience? What is […] June 12th, 2014 | Tags: book launch, book marketing, book publicity, freelance book editor, Meghan Ward, Memoir, networking, Publishing, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 21 comments - (Comments are closed) If you’re like me… You remember that you never RSVP’d to your friend’s book launch, so you log onto Facebook to search for the invitation and you see that another friend finally gave birth to her long overdue baby. You congratulate her. Then you notice that a third friend has posted a fascinating article about […] April 30th, 2014 | Tags: Meghan Ward, Social Media, social network, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 14 comments - (Comments are closed) If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I have two blogging classes starting in the next week at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Blogging for Beginners starts this Wednesday, January 29, and I still have two openings. My Six-Week Blogging Workshop begins the following Monday, Feb. 3, and four spaces are available. […] January 26th, 2014 | Tags: blogging, blogging classes, Meghan Ward, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, The Grotto, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Social Media, The Author Platform | 10 comments - (Comments are closed) Tuesday night, I had the privilege of attending Sin and Syntax author Constance Hale’s class The Book Biz from A to Z at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. One of the topics that arose was platform. Today, every agent and editor wants to know that you have a platform before representing/buying your book. But […] January 23rd, 2014 | Tags: author platform, book marketing, Marketing, Meghan Ward, personal brand, Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
In 2012, Twitter and Pinterest rose to prominence, and Facebook bought Instagram and went public. In 2013, Twitter released Vine and went public, Google+ starting gaining traction, and SnapChat turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook. What will 2014 bring?
1. Google+, Google+, Google+ 2014 is going to be all […] January 9th, 2014 | Tags: Facebook, Google, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Medium, SnapChat, Social Media, social network, social networks of 2014, Twitter | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 20 comments - (Comments are closed) Last month I wrote about how NOT to promote your book. This week, I want to talk about a few ways you SHOULD promote your book and other writing. 1. Include your website, Facebook page, Twitter handle, etc. in the signature on all your emails. Include your email and Twitter handle (at a minimum) […] October 18th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, book promotion, freelance editor, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social media marketing, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 292 comments - (Comments are closed) A phrase that’s been buzzing around the Internet lately is “transmedia storytelling.” But what is it? And how does it affect you as a writer? Transmedia storytelling is the technique of telling a single story using multiple platforms and technologies in order to expand your audience through multiple avenues of engagement. For example, a YA […] October 9th, 2013 | Tags: book marketing, book promotion, Meghan Ward, transmedia storytelling, Writerland | Category: Books, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 22 comments - (Comments are closed) Don’t do this to your friends
Here’s a common scenario. I say to a friend, “I wonder what Sarah is up to. I haven’t heard from her since we were in that writers’ group three years ago.” Friend: “I haven’t heard from her either. I googled her once, […] September 5th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, blogging, book marketing, book promotion, Facebook, Instagram, Self-Publishing, social marketing, Social Media, Twitter | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 40 comments - (Comments are closed) Last week in my Blogging for Beginners class at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, a student declared that she doesn’t feel comfortable putting her photo on her blog, something I strongly encourage all my students to do. People want to know what the blogger they’re following looks like, and the more professional the photo, […] August 27th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, extrovert, introvert, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Quiet, Self-Publishing, Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts, Writerland, writers, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 31 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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