Many of you know that my book Runway: Confessions of a not-so supermodel was published by a new company called Shebooks, which publishes high-quality 10,000-word ebooks written by women. While Runway was published in the beta phase of the company, Shebooks has now launched its subscription service, so you can download its first 40 books […]
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May 28th, 2014 | Tags: ebooks, equalwrites, equalwrites2014, fashion, fiction, Laura Fraser, Meghan Ward, Memoir, modeling, Runway, shebooks, women's fiction | Category: Author Interviews, Books, E-Books, Memoir, Publishing, Reading, Writing | 15 comments - (Comments are closed) Guy Kawasaki and I at BlogHer ’13 The weekend before last I attended BlogHer ’13 in Chicago along with 5000 other (mostly female) bloggers. We heard keynotes by Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond, social media guru Guy Kawasaki, Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg, and Walking Dead producer Gale Anne Hurd. Queen Latifah […] August 6th, 2013 | Tags: Blogger, blogging, BlogHer, BlogHer '13, freelance editor, Guy Kawasaki, Lean In, Meghan Ward, Queen Latifah, Randi Zuckerberg, Ree Drummond, San Francisco editor, Sheryl Sandberg, Social Media, social network, The Pioneer Woman, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Contests, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 38 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I want to welcome author and nature photographer Mike Spinak, who is here to talk to us about his children’s book Growing Up Humming (which is wonderful; I bought two copies), his behemoth following on Google+ (45,710 people have circled him), and why he crowdsourced his book (Mike funded the publication of Growing Up […] April 3rd, 2013 | Tags: freelance editor, Growing Up Humming, Kickstarter, Meghan Ward, Mike Spinak, nature, photography, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, Writerland | Category: Author Interviews, Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 16 comments - (Comments are closed) 1. Use your name/brand as your Twitter handle. For the same reason that you want your name on your blog and your Facebook page, people won’t realize that Kiala Givehand is “supercoolwriter,” whose Tweets they follow and love, when they see her book in the bookstore, and they won’t buy it. Unlike on Facebook, […] March 26th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Networking for Introverts, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social network, Twitter, Writerland | Category: E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 28 comments - (Comments are closed) I had the pleasure to meet Patrick Brown, Director of Community at GoodReads, when he came to lunch at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto today. Brown spoke about the GoodReads Author Program and offered these tips for authors on GoodReads. 1. GoodReads has a free Author Program. You can use it to post videos and […] March 13th, 2013 | Tags: Bay Area editor, book review, Books, freelance editor, GoodReads, Library Thing, Meghan Ward, Patrick Brown, Reading, San Francisco editor, Shelfari, Writerland | Category: Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 31 comments - (Comments are closed) Multimedia ebooks, enhanced books, enriched books, interactive ebooks—whatever you call them, they’re here to stay. As more companies make the foray into multimedia book publishing, authors have greater opportunities than ever to transform their static PDFs into living stories with the addition of audio, video, and graphics. Below is a comparison of the top multimedia […] February 7th, 2013 | Tags: Atavist, Bay Area editor, E-Books, ebooks, iBooks Author, interactive e-books, Meghan Ward, multimedia books, multimedia e-books, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, vook, Writerland | Category: Books, E-Books, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Writing | 19 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I’d like to welcome back Brooke Warner, publisher of She Writes Press and founder of Warner Coaching. Today Brooke is here to talk to us today about self-publishing and the changes going on with the Big Six Five. Brooke worked in the publishing industry for thirteen years, first at North Atlantic Books, then […] December 11th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Brooke Warner, San Francisco editors, Seal Press, She Writes Press, Warner Coaching | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Contests, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 32 comments - (Comments are closed) If you’re a blogger, you’ve probably heard the term “SEO,” short for “search engine optimization.” You may even know what SEO is (a method for improving your website’s ranking in Google and other search engine results). But why should you care about SEO? Because few people look past the first page of results when they […] October 23rd, 2012 | Tags: author platform, blogging, blogging classes, E-Books, e-publishing, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, Self-Publishing, SEM, SEO, Social Media, social networking, The Grotto, Writerland | Category: E-Books, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 93 comments - (Comments are closed) First off, we have a winner for a signed copy of A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception and Survival in Jonestown by New York Times bestselling author Julia Scheeres. That winner is: MOLLY! Molly, e-mail me your full name and address, and I will pop the book in the mail to you […] October 18th, 2011 | Tags: Alan Rinzler, Andy Ross, author platform, Books, E-Books, e-readers, Editing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Writerland, Writing | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Craft of Writing, E-Books, Editing, Publishing, Reading, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Videos, Writing | 32 comments - (Comments are closed) There’s been a lot of brouhaha about self-publishing lately, with the success stories of Joe Konrath, Barry Eisler, Amanda Hocking, and John Locke being tossed around the Internet like a wedding dance video. But is self-publishing for you? Back in June, when I met with Smashwords founder Mark Coker, he had recently been quoted in […] September 6th, 2011 | Tags: Amanda Hocking, Bay Area editors, book cover designers, book editors, Books, Cory Doctorow, digital books, E-Books, ebooks, H.P. Mallory, indie publishing, John Locke, Meghan Ward, Nathan Bransford, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 71 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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