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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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Since I’ve been Twittering a lot of links lately, I figured I would share them with you here. You can also follow me @meghancward or like my Facebook Page to receive these links throughout the week. Here is a great post by Brian Meeks about Fake Hashtaggery. Keren Taylor, founder of WriteGirl, tells the LA […] April 15th, 2011 | Tags: Alan Rinzler, Barry Eisler, Blair Witch Project, Brian Meeks, Heather Donahue, Isaac Fitzgerland, JA Konrath, Kristen Lippert Martin, Margaret Atwood, Meghan Ward, MFA, Nathan Bransford, Regreturature, The Rumpus, Wee World, Writer Girl | Category: Link Love, Memoir, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) It’s been two weeks already since I posted links! Here we go: Agent Nathan Bransford has a post on creating a Series Bible. A Series Bible is to a book (or series of books) what a script supervisor is to a movie—the person who makes sure a character’s hair looks the same in each scene […] May 8th, 2010 | Tags: E-Books, e-publishing, Editing, fiction, Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | Category: Editing, Link Love, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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