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 […]
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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 have a professional Facebook page, you’re probably familiar with Promoted Posts, which Facebook launched in May of this year. For $5 $10, or $15, Facebook will make your post more visible within your followers’ news feeds. If you don’t promote your post, only a fraction of your followers will ever see it. On […] November 29th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editor, Facebook, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, promoted posts, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 25 comments - (Comments are closed) Last month I registered for the BlogHer 13 conference, which will take place in Chicago July 25-27 of next year, and I’m very excited! The early bird rate has ended, but there’s a $299 holiday discount right now, so grab that if you haven’t already bought your ticket, so we can hang out in Chicago […] November 20th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, Blogger, blogging, Facebook, Linked In, Meghan Ward, Pinterest, Social Media, social network, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 17 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I’d like to welcome publisher of She Writes Press and founder of Warner Coaching Brooke Warner, who is here to talk about She Writes Press and her new book, What’s Your Book? A Step-by-Step Guide to Get You From Inspiration to Published Author. Next month, Brooke will be back to talk about self-publishing […] November 14th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, Bay Area editor, Brooke Warner, Meghan Ward, Rachelle Gardner, San Francisco editor, Seal Press, Self-Publishing, She Writes, What's Your Book? social media, Writerland | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Contests, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 18 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) Social networking, or online networking, is a style of networking that is popular among introverts writers because it allows us to blog, tweet, and post status updates from the quiet of our desk chairs and sofas. We don’t need to articulately deliberate over the national deficit while sipping martinis and munching canapés in some stranger’s […] October 9th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, blogging, Facebook, freelance editors, Malcolm Gladwell, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, Social Media, social networking, The Tipping Point, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) The $64,000 question when it comes to social media is: Does it sell books? Many authors have written blog posts attempting to answer this question, and the consensus seems to be that yes, done right, social media does sell books, but in modest quantities. In other words, a rock star social media platform does not […] September 25th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, blogging, Facebook, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Memoir, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 21 comments - (Comments are closed) As a freelance editor and someone who has hired several freelance editors, I wanted to give my two cents about if/when/how you need to hire an editor. Anne Allen wrote a wonderful post about this topic Sunday as well. Be sure to check it out when you’re done reading this: 1. Do I need a […] March 20th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Bay Area freelance editors, Berkeley editors, content editing, copyediting, developmental editing, Editing, freelance editing, freelance editors, line editing, Meghan Ward, proofreading, Publishing, San Francisco editors, Self-Publishing, Writerland, Writing | Category: Editing, Grammar & Punctuation, Publishing, Revision, Self-Publishing, The Editing Hour, Writing | 101 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) 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) |
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