Does Facebook have a new rival in the author community? They do if Melbourne-based publishing startup Tablo has anything to say about it. And you don’t need to be a resident of Australia to participate. According to ITWire.com, Tablo was founded by 21-year-old Ash Davies (yikes! 21???), who recently completed a new round of funding. […]
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In honor of this great pieces I just read on Book Promotion Myths from my colleague Sandra Beckwith, I have decided to present … three common author website myths. 1. An author’s website needs to be stunning. Sure, a stunning website is a good thing. In fact, it’s often a great thing. But many authors
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An author writes a book. An author builds a website to promote that book. A year or two passes. The author starts ignoring the website. It becomes like a “portfolio” — somewhere that he may send people if they’re interested, but not something that he things about all that often. Here are five tell-tale signs
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Remember when getting a book review involved a pre-pub copy of your book being sent to the NY Times, Publishers Weekly, etc…? Boy, how times have changed. And while those reviews are still golden, today’s world of self-published authors, Amazon, and online reviews have turned the concept of book reviews upside down. With that in
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For the past few months, Publishers Weekly has been printing a monthly report from CoverCake about the most talked about books in social media. And these lists (and the corresponding analysis) have taught me a thing or two! First, here’s how CoverCake describes itself: At CoverCake, we are focused on helping organizations, their brands and
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Oh Facebook and Twitter … they’re so 2012. But seriously, we all know that those are the two most commonly-used social networking tools in the digital world. But that doesn’t mean authors should be ignoring all the other social networking avenues out there. In the past few weeks, I’ve stumbled across a slew of articles
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Okay, so you’ve built an author website. Congratulations! But just because the site is live doesn’t mean that people will find it. Here’s what you need to know about all the ways people can and will find your site, and what you can do to increase the odds of it happening. 1. Search engines. Optimize your
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I was on the phone with an author yesterday who asked me a question: “What’s the best social networking site for authors?” My response? There is none. Now, that doesn’t mean that social networking doesn’t work for authors. On the contrary, it has become an essential part of an author’s promotional plan. This is especially
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There are thousands — if not millions — of authors out there trying to make a name for themselves. Most of them have very little in terms of publicity agents, marketing experience, etc… So they’re basically fighting an uphill battle. That’s why so many authors are looking for ways to connect with other authors, and
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I came across a conversation on LinkedIn this morning. One author was bouncing a few book title ideas off the other members of the group. He/she wanted to know which one everyone liked better. And this isn’t the first time I’ve seen something like that. I’ve seen other authors asking for feedback on book covers,
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