If you have a WordPress blog, you probably know by now that Google will be retiring Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger blogs on March 1, 2012. I’m thrilled about this because I’ve always hated Google Friend Connect but have never had the cahones to delete it from my blog. I just did, and it […]
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February 23rd, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Facebook, Google, Google Friend Connect, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, social networks, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Social Media, The Author Platform | 23 comments - (Comments are closed) To all my writer friends and followers out there, here’s a valentine for you: You’ve spent days, weeks, months, and years Gallantly confronting your writerly fears The blinking cursor, like the blank page Is daunting to writers at every stage But you never give up, you keep trudging on You’re the hero of your journey, […] February 14th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Meghan Ward, Memoir, Publishing, San Francisco editors, Social Media, St. Valentine, Valentine's Day, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 18 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) 1. Get over your fear of self-promotion. Just do it. Now. Done? Good. I get an email newsletter from professional coach Martha Borst every week. It has her photo at the top and an image of her book cover on the side. I don’t see that and think, “Oh God, there goes Martha promoting herself […] January 31st, 2012 | Tags: author blogs, author platform, author websites, Bay Area editors, Berkeley editors, blogging, Facebook, Meghan Ward, personal brand, San Francisco editors, Social Media, Social Media classes, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 23 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 […] 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) 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 was a Klout junkie. The first thing I did when I woke up in the morning was reach for my iPad and check my Klout score to see if it had gone up a point since the previous night (scores apparently change in the middle of the night). I’m a casual gamer (Settlers of […] November 8th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Blogger, blogging, blogs, Facebook, Google, Klout, Linked In, Meghan Ward, publising, Social Media, Social Media classes, social media influence scores, social networking, Sprout Social, Tumblr, Twitter, Wordpress, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 40 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) The weekend before last, I attended a publishing panel at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto during which literary agent Andy Ross of the Andy Ross Literary Agency said, “Publishers say they expect you to blog and to use social media. I blog and I get about 100 hits a day, and I’m relatively famous, and […] September 27th, 2011 | Tags: Andy Ross, author platform, Blogger, blogging, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Social Media, Wordpress, Writerland, Writing | Category: Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 81 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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