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November 24th, 2011 | Tags: Meghan Ward, Memoir, parenting, personal essay, Thanksgiving, Writerland, Writing | Category: Parenting | 308 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 arrived at the tail end of an interesting lunchtime conversation at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto last week—just in time to hear author Julia Scheeres utter, “Well, that was depressing.” From there the conversation continued on about how women tend to submit less often to journals, magazines, and newspapers (and by extension, agents and […] November 15th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area editors, blogging, Editing, Meghan Ward, Memoir, perfectionism, Publishing, social media class, Writerland, Writing | Category: Memoir, Publishing, Revision, Writing | 37 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) 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) It’s National Day on Writing today! To celebrate, I have a guest post by Grant Faulkner, managing editor at the National Writing Project. Grant Faulkner is a prize-winning fiction writer. His stories have appeared in The Southwest Review, The Rumpus, Gargoyle, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Word Riot, The Big Ugly Review, Used Furniture Review, Ink, […] October 20th, 2011 | Tags: #whyiwrite, Bay Area editors, Meghan Ward, National Day on Writing, National Writing Project, Social Media classes, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, Reading, Writing | 18 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) Some of you may remember this interview, which I posted in November, 2009, with New York Times bestselling author of Jesus Land, Julia Scheeres. Nearly two years later, Scheeres’ book about Jonestown, A Thousand Lives, has been released after rave reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. To […] October 11th, 2011 | Tags: A Thousand Lives, Bay Area editors, Books, Guyana, Jesus Land, Jonestown, Julia Scheeres, Meghan Ward, New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, Reading, Wall Street Journal, Writerland | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Memoir, Writing | 44 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) |
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