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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) 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) 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) Holly Watson is a Publicity Manager at Viking Penguin books and is based in Los Angeles, where she has been living since 2003. Since beginning her career in New York City as a Publicity Assistant in 1997, she has worked with a wide range of authors, including: T.C. Boyle, Stewart O’Nan, Terry McMillan, Garrison Keillor, […] August 10th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area editors, book publicity, Holly Watson, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Penguin, publicist, Publishing, Viking, Viking Penguin, Writerland | Category: Author Interviews, Marketing, Publishing, The Author Platform, Writing | 13 comments - (Comments are closed) I’m on vacation for a couple of weeks, but I’m looking forward to catching up on everyone’s blogs and tweets when I return. Meanwhile, here’s a guest post from Samuel Park, author of This Burns My Heart. If you haven’t bought his book yet, do! Samuel is an exceedingly intelligent and talented writer. I loved […] August 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Author Interviews, author platform, blogging, Books, branding, Columbia College, Facebook, fiction, Google, Meghan Ward, novels, personal brand, Samuel Park, Social Media, social networking, This Burns My Heart, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Author Interviews, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 17 comments - (Comments are closed) First, I want to say that I was fortunate enough to meet Samuel Park in person when he read from his debut novel This Burns My Heart here in San Francisco tonight. I was so drawn in by the story and his dialogue that I bought THREE copies–all at full hardcover price. So if you’re […] July 19th, 2011 | Tags: blogging, Books, Meghan Ward, Memoir, novels, Publishing, Roni Loren, Samuel Park, Social Media, This Burns My Heart, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, Marketing, Memoir, Publishing, Reading, Revision, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 22 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) Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending an author lunch at San Francisco publisher Berrett-Koehler. In attendance were Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi and author of Campaign Boot Camp; William Bennett Turner, author of Figures of Speech, Sharon Donovan, former publishing director of Counterpoint Press, several other guests, and most of the Berrett-Koehler […] June 7th, 2011 | Tags: author brand, B.J. Gallagher, Berrett-Koehler, Books, Buddha, Buddhism, Franz Metcalf, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Social Media, What Would Buddha Do? A Peacock in a Land of Penguins, Writerland | Category: Books, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 20 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) |
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