The week before Christmas, I looked at my birthday notifications on Facebook and saw that it was my friend Chris’s birthday. Facebook has this new feature that allows you to wish your friends happy birthday without even visiting their walls. But because I know some people post fake birthdays to protect their privacy, if I […]
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January 13th, 2012 | Tags: author websites, Bay Area editors, Berkeley editors, blogging, death, Deathbook, Facebook, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Writerland, Writing | Category: Publishing, Social Media | 30 comments - (Comments are closed) What are your New Year’s resolutions? Mine are: 1. Run the Oakland Half Marathon on March 25, no matter how slowly. I ran this marathon in 2010, and then in 2011 I wimped out after a 10-mile run two weeks before because I hadn’t trained enough. My ego didn’t want to run it slower than […] January 3rd, 2012 | Tags: Anne Allen, Bay Area editors, Berkeley editors, Fiction Groupie, Meghan Ward, New Year's Resolutions, Publishing, Roni Loren, Tawna Fenske, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, Publishing, Reading | 27 comments - (Comments are closed) Some of you may be familiar with Red Room, a social network and marketing platform for authors that boasts superstar members like Margaret Atwood, Naomi Wolf, Jonathan Lethem, Erica Jong, Salman Rushdie, Dave Eggers, and Amy Tan. What you may not know is that on October 24, Red Room launched the “the world’s only authors’ […] December 27th, 2011 | Tags: Amazon, Bay Area editors, Berkeley editors, book, booksellers, bookstores, Ivory Madison, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Reading, Red Room, San Francisco editors, Writerland, Writing | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Publishing, Reading, Writing | 25 comments - (Comments are closed) Check it out! New blog design to match the rest of my website. This is a work-in-progress, so if you find any glitches, please let me know, and I will remedy them as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, feel free to click around to check out my new digs right after you read this post: A […] December 13th, 2011 | Tags: Alice Walker, Bay Area authors, Bay Area editors, Editing, envy, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Walter Mosley, Writerland, Writing | Category: Publishing, Writing | 32 comments - (Comments are closed) If you’re a writer, you’ve had the importance of building your “author platform” drilled into your head like the multiplication tables were in fourth grade. Most people associate building an author platform with Facebook and a blog, but there are many ways to create a following. Here are 25: 1. Blog Not every writer needs […] December 6th, 2011 | Tags: author platform, authors, Bay Area editors, Meghan Ward, networking, personal branding, Publishing, San Francisco editors, social networking, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, Publishing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 38 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 arrived at the tail end of an interesting lunchtime conversation at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto last week—just in time to hear author Julia Scheeres utter, “Well, that was depressing.” From there the conversation continued on about how women tend to submit less often to journals, magazines, and newspapers (and by extension, agents and […] November 15th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area editors, blogging, Editing, Meghan Ward, Memoir, perfectionism, Publishing, social media class, Writerland, Writing | Category: Memoir, Publishing, Revision, Writing | 37 comments - (Comments are closed) Thank you so much to the 105 authors who took the author advance survey! Here are the results (now with author comments added below): Average and Median of All Advances Five people reported multi-book deals (four two-book deals and one four-book deal), which skewed the results a bit. Below are results counting the multi-book deals […] November 2nd, 2011 | Tags: author advances, Bay Area editors, Big 6, Books, indie publishing, Meghan Ward, Memoir, nonfiction, novels, Publishing, short stories, small press, Social Media classes, survey, Writerland | Category: Books, Memoir, Publishing, Reading, Writing | 51 comments - (Comments are closed) UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey! (All 105 of you). I’m still analyzing results and will post data tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov. 2. It’s survey time! If you are a published author who has received an advance or who is contracted to receive an advance, please take a minute (it literally takes […] October 24th, 2011 | Tags: author advances, Bay Area editors, Big 6, indie publishing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, small press, Social Media classes, survey, traditional publishing, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, Memoir, Publishing, Reading, Writing | 11 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) |
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