I’m on vacation for a couple of weeks, but I’m looking forward to catching up on everyone’s blogs and tweets when I return. Meanwhile, here’s a guest post from Samuel Park, author of This Burns My Heart. If you haven’t bought his book yet, do! Samuel is an exceedingly intelligent and talented writer. I loved […]
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August 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Author Interviews, author platform, blogging, Books, branding, Columbia College, Facebook, fiction, Google, Meghan Ward, novels, personal brand, Samuel Park, Social Media, social networking, This Burns My Heart, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Author Interviews, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 17 comments - (Comments are closed) When I hear about companies like Blue Ink Review, who charge self-published authors to have their books reviewed by professional book reviewers, I have two thoughts: 1. FINALLY! I’ve been waiting for high quality websites who specialize in self-published book reviews written by professional reviewers to emerge as the gatekeepers of the self-publishing industry. 2. […] July 26th, 2011 | Tags: Blue Ink, book reviews, Books, Meghan Ward, Publishing, self-published book reviews, Self-Publishing, Writerland | Category: Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing | 33 comments - (Comments are closed) First, I want to say that I was fortunate enough to meet Samuel Park in person when he read from his debut novel This Burns My Heart here in San Francisco tonight. I was so drawn in by the story and his dialogue that I bought THREE copies–all at full hardcover price. So if you’re […] July 19th, 2011 | Tags: blogging, Books, Meghan Ward, Memoir, novels, Publishing, Roni Loren, Samuel Park, Social Media, This Burns My Heart, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, Marketing, Memoir, Publishing, Reading, Revision, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 22 comments - (Comments are closed) Today my good friend Alta Peterson over at Alta Peterson Communications has written a wonderful guest post about e-mail marketing. If you think e-mail marketing isn’t for you, think again. Every writer I know uses e-mail marketing once her book comes out to blast an ad with the book cover on the front to all […] June 21st, 2011 | Tags: Alta Peterson, author platform, Constant Contact, e-mail marketing, iContact, Mail Chimp, Marketing, Meghan Ward, personal brand, Publishing, Social Media, Writerland, writers | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 22 comments - (Comments are closed) Ethan Nosowsky is Editor-at-Large at Graywolf Press. He is also Consultant for Innovative Literature at the Creative Capital Foundation. Previously he was an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has edited books by Jeffery Renard Allen, Emily Barton, Elias Canetti, Geoff Dyer, Stephen Elliott, John Haskell, J. Robert Lennon, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among […] June 13th, 2011 | Tags: Adderall Diaries, author brand, author platform, blogging, Books, Editing, editors, Ethan Nosowsky, Graywolf Press, interviews, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Stephen Elliott, Writerland, Writing | Category: Author Interviews, Books, E-Books, Editing, Marketing, Memoir, Publishing, Reading, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 21 comments - (Comments are closed) Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending an author lunch at San Francisco publisher Berrett-Koehler. In attendance were Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi and author of Campaign Boot Camp; William Bennett Turner, author of Figures of Speech, Sharon Donovan, former publishing director of Counterpoint Press, several other guests, and most of the Berrett-Koehler […] June 7th, 2011 | Tags: author brand, B.J. Gallagher, Berrett-Koehler, Books, Buddha, Buddhism, Franz Metcalf, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Social Media, What Would Buddha Do? A Peacock in a Land of Penguins, Writerland | Category: Books, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 20 comments - (Comments are closed) A few years ago, I read Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” and the paragraph that stuck with me more than any other was a story about a woman who interviewed Kiyosaki (in Singapore, I think) for a news article. After the interview, she mentioned that she had written a novel, that she’d gotten good […] May 31st, 2011 | Tags: author brand, author platform, Books, Chris Brogan, Christina Katz, Crush It, Gay Vaynerchuk, Get Known Before the Book Deal, Inbound Marketing, Kristen Lamb, Malcolm Gladwell, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, Social Media, Social Media Madness, The Grotto, The Tipping Point, Trust Agents, We Are Not Alone, Writerland, Writers' Grotto, Writing | Category: Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 23 comments - (Comments are closed) As you know if you read/watched Part I of our interview, author Nathan Bransford came to the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto for lunch last week, and I videotaped our interview. This half is really more of a conversation between Nathan and some of the writers at the Grotto, including Po Bronson, Constance Hale, and Caroline […] April 27th, 2011 | Tags: Books, Caroline Paul, Costance Hale, E-Books, Gerard Jones, Jacob Wonderbar, Laura Goode, Meghan Ward, Nathan Bransford, Po Bronson, Publishing, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, Self-Publishing, SF Grotto, Social Media, The Grotto, Writerland, Writing | Category: Author Interviews, Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) I had the pleasure of meeting Nathan Bransford in person last week and interviewing him on video when he came to lunch at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, where I write. Here is the first part of the interview with the (edited) transcription below, so you can follow along to see who is asking the […] April 26th, 2011 | Tags: authors, Blogger, blogging, Books, Caroline Paul, childrens books, CNET, Constance Hale, Gerard Jones, Grotto, Helena Echlin, interview, Jacob Wonderbar, Laura Goode, Meghan Ward, Nathan Bransford, Po Bronson, Publishing, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, Social Media, Writerland, Writing | Category: Author Interviews, Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) It’s so easy for bloggers to get caught up in the race for more followers, more comments, more hits. I know that when I get two comments on my Link Love posts (and one of them is mine) I want to stop posting links—partly because I feel it’s a waste of time if people aren’t […] April 19th, 2011 | Tags: Anastasia Villareal, Blogger, Christine Lee Zilka, Editing, Elizabeth Browne, Facebook, Klout, Kristan Hoffman, Meghan Ward, Memoir, Publishing, Twitter, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform | 33 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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