A special thank you to our author, Sherry Jones, who mentioned that we created her website. In a post on GoodReads.com, she said: “I have a very cool website with lots of goodies, created by smartauthorsites.com.” Thanks, Sherry!!
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I recently came upon a post in The online journal of writer Jon Gibbs. He proposes that an author’s blog should be completely separate from their website. Here’s how he sums it up: “From a strictly self-promotional point of view, there are two types of people in the world: those who’ve at least heard of
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Author Anna McPartlin is doing something very interesting with her website for the book “So What If I’m Broken.” She’s actually allowing readers to interact with her characters in cyberworld. The feature is being promoted as “A book that talks back.” Anna says, “What is really exciting is that readers might actually change the story
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The Lord of Death, by our own Eliot Pattison, was chosen as one of the Top 100 Books of 2009 by Publisher’s Weekly. It was one of only seven mysteries to make it. Congrats, Eliot!
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I just stumbled across an article in the NY Times about introverts finding a path to career success in a world of extroverts (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/jobs/01pre.html?scp=26&sq=author%20marketing&st=cse). And it got me thinking about authors… The majority of people in the world are extroverts (experts say it’s 70%). But there are a fair number of introverts, too (myself included).
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I was reading an interesting article over the weekend in Internet & Marketing Report magazine. It had to do with the benefits of blogging and how anyone can blog to drive traffic to their website. Here are some of the highlights of that article, and how the information specifically pertains to websites for writers. According
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I have worked with many authors who ask me about search engine optimization. Many aren’t sure what the difference is between SEO and SEM/Google Adwords, another service we author. So hopefully this post will clear things up a bit. First, here are the simple definitions of each one: Search engine optimization (or SEO) is the
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On November 9th, Oprah.com, CNN.com and Facebook are holding a live Oprah’s Book Club webcast for the latest book in the Oprah book club, Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan. People can submit questions to the author now, and the chosen questions will be answered on the live webcast. The video will be
Another great book marketing idea, courtesy of Michael Volkin… If there is one thing I know, that’s book marketing, and from time to time I learn about a neat new tool that makes selling books online just a little bit easier. I would like to introduce you to Skirbit. Skirbit.com allows an author to easily
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How many writers websites have you looked at? What seems to be missing from most of them? Based on my experience, one of the biggest problems with author web sites is that they’re stale and dull. They’re more like a portfolio than a website. They include author photos, a bio, and details on the books.
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