Last month I registered for the BlogHer 13 conference, which will take place in Chicago July 25-27 of next year, and I’m very excited! The early bird rate has ended, but there’s a $299 holiday discount right now, so grab that if you haven’t already bought your ticket, so we can hang out in Chicago […]
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November 20th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, Blogger, blogging, Facebook, Linked In, Meghan Ward, Pinterest, Social Media, social network, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 17 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I’d like to welcome publisher of She Writes Press and founder of Warner Coaching Brooke Warner, who is here to talk about She Writes Press and her new book, What’s Your Book? A Step-by-Step Guide to Get You From Inspiration to Published Author. Next month, Brooke will be back to talk about self-publishing […] November 14th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, Bay Area editor, Brooke Warner, Meghan Ward, Rachelle Gardner, San Francisco editor, Seal Press, Self-Publishing, She Writes, What's Your Book? social media, Writerland | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Contests, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) If you’re a blogger, you’ve probably heard the term “SEO,” short for “search engine optimization.” You may even know what SEO is (a method for improving your website’s ranking in Google and other search engine results). But why should you care about SEO? Because few people look past the first page of results when they […] October 23rd, 2012 | Tags: author platform, blogging, blogging classes, E-Books, e-publishing, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, Self-Publishing, SEM, SEO, Social Media, social networking, The Grotto, Writerland | Category: E-Books, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 93 comments - (Comments are closed) The $64,000 question when it comes to social media is: Does it sell books? Many authors have written blog posts attempting to answer this question, and the consensus seems to be that yes, done right, social media does sell books, but in modest quantities. In other words, a rock star social media platform does not […] September 25th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, blogging, Facebook, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Memoir, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 21 comments - (Comments are closed) I teach social media and blogging classes here at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. In these classes, I explain to writers how to write a great blog post, how to market their services through their blog, Facebook and Twitter, how to create a community of enthusiastic fans of their work, and how to manage their […] April 10th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, Bay Area editors, blogging, blogging classes, e-book publishing, freelance editors, indie publishing, Marketing, Meghan Ward, personal brand, Publishing, San Francisco editors, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland, Writing | Category: Dis n Dat | 15 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) 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) 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) |
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