I’m getting excited for AWP! I just bought a new umbrella, and I’m digging my coats and sweaters out of the closet. I’ll be moderating a panel Thursday morning and participating in a reading Thursday afternoon. Please come to one or both if you’re going to AWP. I’d love to see/meet you! Details about my […]
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April 6th, 2015 | Tags: AImee Suzara, Amy King, AWP, AWP15, Isaac Fitzgerald, Jake Armerding, Kate Klein, Laura Joyce Davis, Meghan Ward, Minneapolis, Sarah Beth Childers, Social Media, social network, social networking, Sophronia Scott, Susan Ito, writing conference | Category: Books, Craft of Writing, Marketing, Memoir, Poetry, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Social Media: Sigh. We know we need to do it in order to build our author platforms so we can get agents and book deals and make money selling those books, but it can be exhausting. And it never ends. You tweet and you post and you circle and you link and you connect and […] January 22nd, 2015 | Tags: Facebook, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Meghan Ward, Social Media, social media tools, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 16 comments - (Comments are closed) While the holidays are a great time to take a break from the usual craziness of daily life, they’re also a wonderful opportunity to catch up with friends and family you’ve been neglecting while busy working and parenting and writing all year. If you’re traveling to see family, use this time to reconnect with those […] December 24th, 2014 | Tags: Holiday parties, holidays, Meghan Ward, networking, Networking for Introverts, networking for writers, social networking, Writerland | Category: Dis n Dat | 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Whether your day will be filled with turkey or Tofurkey, au gratin potatoes or gluten-free, dairy-free pumpkin pie (mine will be filled with both), I wish everyone a wonderful time eating, relaxing and spending time with family and friends this weekend. Photo courtesy of Julie via Creative Commons And now, a […] November 27th, 2014 | Tags: freelance editing, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Social Media, social networking, Thanksgiving, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 6 comments - (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) Last month I posted an interview with SheBooks co-founder Laura Fraser. This month I want to discuss a few things about what I learned by publishing my first book, Runway, and what I plan to do differently next time. Photo courtesy of NASA
1. Are you blogging to the wrong audience? What is […] June 12th, 2014 | Tags: book launch, book marketing, book publicity, freelance book editor, Meghan Ward, Memoir, networking, Publishing, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 21 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) First up, a few announcements: I have room for a couple more students in my Blogging for Beginners class, which starts August 7 and runs for four Wednesdays at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Email me if you’d like to enroll! Anyone who has followed this blog for a while knows that my posts […] July 25th, 2013 | Tags: Blogger, blogging, BlogHer, BlogHer '13, freelance editing, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 9 comments - (Comments are closed) If you’ve been reading blogs for a while, you have probably come across the term “1000 true fans.” Kevin Kelly first wrote about this idea on his blog Technium. The number 1000 is an estimate, of course, but the rationale goes that all you need to succeed in your field are 1000 true fans, […] May 30th, 2013 | Tags: 1000 true fans, Blogger, blogging, Facebook, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 56 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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