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 […]
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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 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) Tuesday night, I had the privilege of attending Sin and Syntax author Constance Hale’s class The Book Biz from A to Z at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. One of the topics that arose was platform. Today, every agent and editor wants to know that you have a platform before representing/buying your book. But […] January 23rd, 2014 | Tags: author platform, book marketing, Marketing, Meghan Ward, personal brand, Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 29 comments - (Comments are closed) Last month I wrote about how NOT to promote your book. This week, I want to talk about a few ways you SHOULD promote your book and other writing. 1. Include your website, Facebook page, Twitter handle, etc. in the signature on all your emails. Include your email and Twitter handle (at a minimum) […] October 18th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, book promotion, freelance editor, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social media marketing, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 292 comments - (Comments are closed) Don’t do this to your friends
Here’s a common scenario. I say to a friend, “I wonder what Sarah is up to. I haven’t heard from her since we were in that writers’ group three years ago.” Friend: “I haven’t heard from her either. I googled her once, […] September 5th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, blogging, book marketing, book promotion, Facebook, Instagram, Self-Publishing, social marketing, Social Media, Twitter | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 40 comments - (Comments are closed) Last week in my Blogging for Beginners class at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, a student declared that she doesn’t feel comfortable putting her photo on her blog, something I strongly encourage all my students to do. People want to know what the blogger they’re following looks like, and the more professional the photo, […] August 27th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, extrovert, introvert, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Quiet, Self-Publishing, Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts, Writerland, writers, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 31 comments - (Comments are closed) This week, I’m introducing a series of YouTube videos that I am creating to give readers who don’t have a lot of time to read long blog posts quick access to information about writing, editing, publishing, and social media. To be sure you don’t miss any, click on the red “Subscribe to my videos on […] May 17th, 2013 | Tags: author blog, author platform, blog, Blogger, blogging, creative writing, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Publishing, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social networking, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Videos, Writing | 9 comments - (Comments are closed) 1. Use your name/brand as your Twitter handle. For the same reason that you want your name on your blog and your Facebook page, people won’t realize that Kiala Givehand is “supercoolwriter,” whose Tweets they follow and love, when they see her book in the bookstore, and they won’t buy it. Unlike on Facebook, […] March 26th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Networking for Introverts, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social network, Twitter, Writerland | Category: E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 28 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I’d like to welcome Dane Golden of Hey.com, who is here to talk about how writers can use YouTube to build their author platforms. If you’re a writer, how should you use YouTube? Well, I believe YouTube is best thought of as social video, a conversation between you, the writer, and […] February 12th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, Dane Golden, Hey.com, Meghan Ward, Social Media, social networking, Writerland, YouTube | Category: Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 16 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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