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The Beauty of Email Newsletters

October 8, 2015 //  by Mary Keeley//  36 Comments

Blogger: Mary Keeley

Lately, I’ve been encouraging writers to add a newsletter to their audience-building ventures because publishers have come to realize the email list they generate is a more authentic indicator of genuine readers than social media numbers, which …

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How Important is a Writer’s Social Media Presence?

September 27, 2015 //  by Janet Grant//  53 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Publishers care about your social media presence. They care a lot. Actually, they probably care too much. Here’s why: The majority of them don’t know how to judge if your presence will actually result in book …

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Is Your Online Presence Ready for Scrutiny?

September 3, 2015 //  by Mary Keeley//  39 Comments

Blogger: Mary Keeley

Once the Labor Day holiday is behind us, life settles back to a normal routine for many of us. Autumn months are conducive to spending time finishing proposals and preparing them for submission. But wait. You have …

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Outrage Fatigue

August 25, 2015 //  by Wendy Lawton//  100 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

Last week my colleague, Rachelle Gardner, blogged about not embarrassing ourselves online.  Wise advice. I’m going to piggyback on her thoughts because just today I’ve counted no less that two dozen cringeworthy posts in my newsfeed.…

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Is All Publicity Good?

July 3, 2015 //  by Rachel Kent//  33 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

While I was in Orlando, FL for the International Christian Retail Show (ICRS), I checked Yahoo news and saw that they were reporting a failed publicity stunt for Grey–the new book by the Fifty Shades of …

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Social Media Marketing

June 11, 2015 //  by Mary Keeley//  58 Comments

Blogger: Mary Keeley

This week socialmediaexaminer.com posted a new report, written by Suzanne Delzio, on the latest trends in social media marketing for small businesses. Because it is based on a recent survey in which almost 25% of respondents …

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Moral Responsibility and Writers

June 7, 2015 //  by Janet Grant//  50 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Last week in the comments to my blog post on social media as the new locale for public shaming, Carrie Padgett mentioned that a lively online discussion was taking place elsewhere about whether authors have …

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Social Media: The New Public Shaming

May 31, 2015 //  by Janet Grant//  57 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

While society no longer puts citizens in stocks or pillories, social media is the new town square where you can be publicly humiliated–or humiliate yourself.

In You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, author Jon Ronson contends that the …

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Playing Around the Edges

April 28, 2015 //  by Wendy Lawton//  44 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

A few years back I blogged about a comment from a frustrated editor. The warning bears repeating. The editor, speaking about a writer we knew, said, “I just wish he would spend less time networking—Twittering and Facebooking— …

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Welcoming Readers

April 3, 2015 //  by Rachel Kent//  21 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Yesterday, I was reading an article in the CBA Retailers + Resources magazine (April 2015) about welcoming little children into Christian bookstores (to increase sales) by having a large children’s section with toys and books for sale …

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