When I teach Blogging for Beginners at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, we get everyone’s blogs set up, but that’s the easy part. Learning how to use WordPress, Blogger, or SquareSpace will get your blog online, but it won’t make you a great blogger. Great blogs have five things in common—quality design, great content, clear […]
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June 16th, 2015 | Tags: blog, Blogger, blogging, blogging classes, Meghan Ward, Social Media, social network, SquareSpace, Wordpress, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Social Media, The Author Platform | One comment - (Comments are closed) A quick announcement to let everyone know that TODAY is the last day to get the early bird discount for Blogging for Beginners, which starts next Monday, June 22, at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. After today, tuition goes up $25, but you can still enroll right up until the minute class starts (but […] June 15th, 2015 | Tags: author platform, blogging, blogging class, book marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Social Media, social media class, social network, Wordpress, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | One comment - (Comments are closed) Photo by Glen Euloth courtesy of Creative Commons
I thought I was so prepared at AWP 15 this year, but there were a few essentials I didn’t take that would have made my conference run much smoother: 1. Business cards I can’t emphasize enough how much you should take a stack of business […] May 6th, 2015 | Tags: AWP, BlogHer16, Napa Valley Writers Conference, San Francisco Writers Conference, Squaw Valley Writers Conference | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, The Author Platform, Writing | 7 comments - (Comments are closed) I’m getting excited for AWP! I just bought a new umbrella, and I’m digging my coats and sweaters out of the closet. I’ll be moderating a panel Thursday morning and participating in a reading Thursday afternoon. Please come to one or both if you’re going to AWP. I’d love to see/meet you! Details about my […] April 6th, 2015 | Tags: AImee Suzara, Amy King, AWP, AWP15, Isaac Fitzgerald, Jake Armerding, Kate Klein, Laura Joyce Davis, Meghan Ward, Minneapolis, Sarah Beth Childers, Social Media, social network, social networking, Sophronia Scott, Susan Ito, writing conference | Category: Books, Craft of Writing, Marketing, Memoir, Poetry, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Social Media: Sigh. We know we need to do it in order to build our author platforms so we can get agents and book deals and make money selling those books, but it can be exhausting. And it never ends. You tweet and you post and you circle and you link and you connect and […] January 22nd, 2015 | Tags: Facebook, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Meghan Ward, Social Media, social media tools, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 16 comments - (Comments are closed) Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Whether your day will be filled with turkey or Tofurkey, au gratin potatoes or gluten-free, dairy-free pumpkin pie (mine will be filled with both), I wish everyone a wonderful time eating, relaxing and spending time with family and friends this weekend. Photo courtesy of Julie via Creative Commons And now, a […] November 27th, 2014 | Tags: freelance editing, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Social Media, social networking, Thanksgiving, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Photo courtesy of Stuart Anthony via Creative Commons
I’ve been thinking about fear lately. When I attended the BlogHer ’13 conference in Chicago, Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook and author of Lean In) urged us to “Write down what you are afraid of, then go do it.” I thought about what I wanted […] October 30th, 2014 | Tags: author platform, fear, freelance editor, Marketing, Meghan Ward, networking, self-confidence, self-promotion, Social Media, social networking, stage fright, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Photo courtesy of Will Lion via Creative Commons In response an article in Creative Nonfiction titled “Platforms” Are Overrated, SheWrites Press publisher Brooke Warner wrote a great post titled Your Author Platform is Not Your Social Media Following. The quick summary of Brooke’s post is that social media is just one piece of the […] October 5th, 2014 | Tags: author platform, blogging, Brooke Warner, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, SF Grotto, SF Writers' Grotto, SheWrites, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, The Author Platform | 26 comments - (Comments are closed) Every now and then you read a gloom and doom post about blogging like “Is blogging dead?” or “Where are all the bloggers?” Blogging is far from dead. Some people who were blogging five days a week four years ago may have slowed down or quit because they got burned out, and there’s no question […] June 21st, 2014 | Tags: author blogs, blog, Blogger, blogging, blogging class, Book Passage, Marin, Meghan Ward, San Francisco, SF Grotto, SF Writers' Grotto, Social Media, social network, The Grotto, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 14 comments - (Comments are closed) Last month I posted an interview with SheBooks co-founder Laura Fraser. This month I want to discuss a few things about what I learned by publishing my first book, Runway, and what I plan to do differently next time. Photo courtesy of NASA
1. Are you blogging to the wrong audience? What is […] June 12th, 2014 | Tags: book launch, book marketing, book publicity, freelance book editor, Meghan Ward, Memoir, networking, Publishing, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 21 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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