When I teach blogging and social media classes at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, students frequently ask me, “Where can I get art for my blog? Can I just google images and use those?” The answer is yes, you can, but no, you may not. Because any image you find on the Internet may be […]
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June 21st, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Blogger, bloggers, blogging, Clip Art, Creative Commons, freelance editors, iStockPhoto, Meghan Ward, photos, San Francisco editors, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, ShutterStock, Social Media, social networking, Stock.XChng, websites, Wordpress, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 122 comments - (Comments are closed) Two weeks ago, I wrote a post titled “If Publicity Doesn’t Sell Books, What Does?” in which numerous published authors offered insider tips on how they publicized and marketed theirs books, and numerous writers responded. This week, Paul J. Krupin, a publicist who blogs at Direct Contact PR, offers his perspective on the publicity debate. […] March 13th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, creative writing, fiction, Marketing, Meghan Ward, memoirs, nonfiction, novels, PR, publicity, Publishing, San Francisco editors, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 13 comments - (Comments are closed) UPDATE: The winner of The Edge of Maybe contest is … KRISTAN! It was a tough decision for Ericka, so she took her top six choices and randomized them. Kristan, please email me your latest address, so I can forward it to Ericka. And everyone else, if you’re in the Bay Area, don’t miss Ericka’s […] February 28th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, Awl, Bay Area editors, book publicity, Bust, Gerard Jones, Growgirl, Hairpin, Heather Donahue, Janis Cooke Newman, Jason Roberts, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, San Francisco editors, T.J. Stiles, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Rumpus, Writerland, Zoe Fitzgerald Carter | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 30 comments - (Comments are closed) To all my writer friends and followers out there, here’s a valentine for you: You’ve spent days, weeks, months, and years Gallantly confronting your writerly fears The blinking cursor, like the blank page Is daunting to writers at every stage But you never give up, you keep trudging on You’re the hero of your journey, […] February 14th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Meghan Ward, Memoir, Publishing, San Francisco editors, Social Media, St. Valentine, Valentine's Day, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I have a wonderful post from Sarah Baker, a former editor for Viking/Penguin and Simon & Schuster in New York, via Constance Hale over at Sin and Syntax. If you haven’t visited Sin and Syntax yet, go check out the Salon. It’s full of great articles about writing and publishing like Gianmaria Fanchini’s post […] February 9th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Berkeley editors, Constance Hale, indie publishing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, San Francisco editors, Sarah Baker, Self-Publishing, Social Media classes, Syn and Syntax, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) 1. Get over your fear of self-promotion. Just do it. Now. Done? Good. I get an email newsletter from professional coach Martha Borst every week. It has her photo at the top and an image of her book cover on the side. I don’t see that and think, “Oh God, there goes Martha promoting herself […] January 31st, 2012 | Tags: author blogs, author platform, author websites, Bay Area editors, Berkeley editors, blogging, Facebook, Meghan Ward, personal brand, San Francisco editors, Social Media, Social Media classes, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 23 comments - (Comments are closed) It’s been my intention for some time now to expand this blog to write about other topics, and to post more frequently. I haven’t done that because, frankly, I don’t have the time. Blogging once a week has been perfect for me. It’s manageable, and with two- and three-year-old children, I need something manageable in […] November 22nd, 2011 | Tags: author platform, Bay Area editors, Meghan Ward, personal brand, Publishing, Social Media, Social Media classes, social network, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 30 comments - (Comments are closed) I was a Klout junkie. The first thing I did when I woke up in the morning was reach for my iPad and check my Klout score to see if it had gone up a point since the previous night (scores apparently change in the middle of the night). I’m a casual gamer (Settlers of […] November 8th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Blogger, blogging, blogs, Facebook, Google, Klout, Linked In, Meghan Ward, publising, Social Media, Social Media classes, social media influence scores, social networking, Sprout Social, Tumblr, Twitter, Wordpress, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 40 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) Holly Watson is a Publicity Manager at Viking Penguin books and is based in Los Angeles, where she has been living since 2003. Since beginning her career in New York City as a Publicity Assistant in 1997, she has worked with a wide range of authors, including: T.C. Boyle, Stewart O’Nan, Terry McMillan, Garrison Keillor, […] August 10th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area editors, book publicity, Holly Watson, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Penguin, publicist, Publishing, Viking, Viking Penguin, Writerland | Category: Author Interviews, Marketing, Publishing, The Author Platform, Writing | 13 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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