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This is my 200th post! To celebrate I have an interview with New York Times bestselling author Laura Fraser. Enjoy! Laura Fraser is a San Francisco-based journalist whose latest book, All Over the Map, is just out in paperback. The book is a travel memoir, and a sequel to her 2001 New York Times bestseller, […] June 28th, 2011 | Tags: All Over The Map, An Italian Affair, Laura Fraser, Losing It, Meghan Ward, Memoir, Publishing, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, The Grotto, Writerland, Writing | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Memoir, Publishing, Reading, Writing | 30 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) 1. Buy a book from an independent bookstore I know it’s hard to pay $27 for a hardcover when you can get the same book on Amazon for $17. But it’ll be sad when all the independent bookstores are gone, when we won’t be able to walk down the street and browse the latest fiction […] May 17th, 2011 | Tags: Books, E-Books, e-readers, Editing, editor, iPad, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Reading, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, E-Books, Memoir, Publishing, Reading | 24 comments - (Comments are closed) First, an announcement: It’s Memoir May here at Writerland! What does that mean? It means that I’ll be editing memoirs this month for 30% off my regular rate. Why this super-amazing spring discount? Because while my own memoir is being marked up with red ink by my editor in New York, I have more time […] May 9th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area, Berkeley, blogging bloggers, depression, editing services, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, Memoir, Publishing, San Francisco, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, Editing, Memoir, Poetry, Publishing, Reading, Revision, Writing | 63 comments - (Comments are closed) Every time another memoir scandal arises, my stomach tightens thinking about the compromises I’ve made in my own memoir. I worry that my memoir, too, will one day be exposed as false because I changed the name of a character or combined two trips to Tokyo into one. But when I sit down and read […] May 3rd, 2011 | Tags: A Million Little Lies, A Million Little Pieces, Books, Byliner.com, Greg Mortenson, James Frey, Jon Krakauer, Meghan Ward, Memoir, Publishing, Three Cups of Deceit, Three Cups of Tea, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, Memoir, Publishing, Reading, Writing | 33 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) |
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