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I’ve begun a new column for SheWrites called Networking for Introverts, which will run every other Thursday, and I’ll repost those here. Here is the latest: With the growing popularity of Buffer and the introduction of HootSuite’s AutoSchedule feature, there has been a lot of brouhaha on the Internet lately about whether you should preschedule […] August 16th, 2012 | Tags: Berkeley editors, blogging, freelance editing, Meghan Ward, Memoir, Networking for Introverts, San Francisco editors, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 26 comments - (Comments are closed) When I teach blogging and social media classes at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, students frequently ask me, “Where can I get art for my blog? Can I just google images and use those?” The answer is yes, you can, but no, you may not. Because any image you find on the Internet may be […] June 21st, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Blogger, bloggers, blogging, Clip Art, Creative Commons, freelance editors, iStockPhoto, Meghan Ward, photos, San Francisco editors, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, ShutterStock, Social Media, social networking, Stock.XChng, websites, Wordpress, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 122 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) UPDATE: The winner of The Edge of Maybe contest is … KRISTAN! It was a tough decision for Ericka, so she took her top six choices and randomized them. Kristan, please email me your latest address, so I can forward it to Ericka. And everyone else, if you’re in the Bay Area, don’t miss Ericka’s […] February 28th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, Awl, Bay Area editors, book publicity, Bust, Gerard Jones, Growgirl, Hairpin, Heather Donahue, Janis Cooke Newman, Jason Roberts, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, San Francisco editors, T.J. Stiles, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Rumpus, Writerland, Zoe Fitzgerald Carter | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 30 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 […] 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) 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) 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) |
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