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An essay that ran in Salon two weeks ago titled “I’m a self-publishing failure” recounts how one writer, John Winters, spent countless hours and dollars promoting his book online only to sell a handful of copies. Where did John go wrong? How can you avoid becoming a self-publishing failure? 1. First of all, start […] April 16th, 2013 | Tags: Bay Area editor, Books, ebooks, freelance editor, indie publishing, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 28 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) 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) Thank you so much to the 105 authors who took the author advance survey! Here are the results (now with author comments added below): Average and Median of All Advances Five people reported multi-book deals (four two-book deals and one four-book deal), which skewed the results a bit. Below are results counting the multi-book deals […] November 2nd, 2011 | Tags: author advances, Bay Area editors, Big 6, Books, indie publishing, Meghan Ward, Memoir, nonfiction, novels, Publishing, short stories, small press, Social Media classes, survey, Writerland | Category: Books, Memoir, Publishing, Reading, Writing | 51 comments - (Comments are closed) UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey! (All 105 of you). I’m still analyzing results and will post data tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov. 2. It’s survey time! If you are a published author who has received an advance or who is contracted to receive an advance, please take a minute (it literally takes […] October 24th, 2011 | Tags: author advances, Bay Area editors, Big 6, indie publishing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, small press, Social Media classes, survey, traditional publishing, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, Memoir, Publishing, Reading, Writing | 11 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) |
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