I know a couple of you saw this post when I accidentally published it on the wrong day last week. Sorry about that! Here it is on the correct day…
The first page of your manuscript is more important than …
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Focusing Your Blog Posts
A Books & Such client asked a great question on Facebook recently. She wanted to know what some experienced bloggers wished they had known before starting their blogs. The majority answered that they wished they had a focus, or direction, …
The Perfect Blog
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I planned the perfect blog for you today. I was in the kitchen preparing a meal when it came to me. So very creative and I knew it would interest our blog readers. As I continued …
Newfangled New Year Redux
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
I’m starting off the new year with something old. Below is the first post ever written for our blog. And since we began the blog the first work day of January 2009, it seemed apropos to …
Is Blogging Necessary for Authors?
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
A few years ago, the standard wisdom was that authors, both fiction and non-fiction, should have blogs in order to gather an audience and build relationships with readers. Now, not so much. As social media and online …
Writers Who Begin as Bloggers: An Agent’s Perspective
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Recently I was asked what agents think of writers who begin as bloggers. I am always looking for new, fresh voices and do investigate blogs as part of that search. I know other agents who frequent blogs …
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Unplugged
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
We expend many words encouraging writers to build their social media platform, develop a Facebook following, Twitter appropriately, explore Pinterest, Goodreads and many other online media. You’re supposed to have a knockout website and maybe even a …
Things Writers Should Keep Track Of: Part 3
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Databases and Fans
It’s exciting to receive fan letters though it’s often impossible to respond to each one individually. An author should acknowledge and thank the fans, even …
Things Writers Should Keep Track Of: Part 2
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
After Publication: Promotion
Once a book has released, the author is thrown into a world of promotion. The author is bombarded with blog tours, radio interviews, book reviewers …
Blogging: What Not to Do…
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Here’s a list of frequent blogger mistakes.
1) Negativity: Don’t always focus on what’s wrong with the world or take the defensive side to everything. Positive bloggers are …