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 […]
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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) To all my writer friends and followers out there, here’s a valentine for you: You’ve spent days, weeks, months, and years Gallantly confronting your writerly fears The blinking cursor, like the blank page Is daunting to writers at every stage But you never give up, you keep trudging on You’re the hero of your journey, […] February 14th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Meghan Ward, Memoir, Publishing, San Francisco editors, Social Media, St. Valentine, Valentine's Day, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 18 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) 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 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) 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) When my brother RJ Squirrel, who lives in D.C., e-mailed me about the devastation that Hurricane Irene wreaked on his home and his family Saturday, I asked if he’d be willing to share his plight with Writerland readers, and he graciously obliged. Please take a minute to read this harrowing tale. It will make you […] August 29th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Editing, humor, Hurricane Irene, Meghan Ward, Publishing, RJ Squirrel, SF Grotto, Social Media, Social Media classes, Washington D.C. Virginia, Writerland, Writers' Grotto, Writing | Category: Dis n Dat | 10 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) |
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