Try to think about marketing and brand building while your writing and editing your story. Don’t wait until you’re finished the book to think of lines to share on social media. Don’t just delete scenes that don’t work. Save them in another document and share them on social media. I shared this one on Instagram…
Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Fantasy, Science Fiction and Heroic Literature in our Society – Logan Judy 10 Utterly Brilliant Novels That Have One Fatal Flaw Five Books with Geeky Heroes Women in Science Fiction & Fantasy Month, 2015 10 Awesome and Unusual Mythological Creatures Sleeps With Monsters: Older Women As Lead Characters In Urban Fantasy Writing Life and…
Avengers: Age of Ultron is in theaters!!!!! Finally. I will be seeing that tomorrow. Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror Variety: Watch: First Trailer for Vin Diesel’s ‘The Last Witch Hunter’ io9: Nightmare Video Game Turns Your House Into A Horror Movie—NOPE NOPE NOPE The Galaxy Express: SFR Shindig: Hobbies and How They Relate To Diversity In SFR by KS Augustin…
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Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror io9: Two Authors Withdraw Their Work From This Year’s Hugo Awards I’ve been following what’s happening with the Hugo Awards. I don’t understand people sometimes. “For those of you coming to this late, Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies are part of an organized backlash that aims to combat what they see as “affirmative action” in Hugo…
For book 2 of The Merging Worlds Series, I’m doing things a bit different. For The Sciell, I used free promotions to get reviews. I avoided sending blogger review requests because I was rejected the first time I did it and it’s a lot of work. Gotten over that. How can you get more reviews?…
I finally finished Chains of the Sciell. I don’t just mean writing. Images are done. I’ve gone over it several times to remove errors and check for consistency. Thanks Kelly Hashway for the Kindle text-to-speech tip! The final step in the editing process was to have Kindle read my book to me. Picked up all…
Twitter and Facebook are supposed to drive traffic to my blog. They haven’t in years. I actually stopped expecting them to. I share the blog post out of habit. Not the best way to run a marketing campaign. It’s all about engagement. I mentioned in the previous post, A Round of Links 2/13/15, that I…
Book’s don’t sell themselves. A nice cover isn’t enough. The description needs to be on point. Please never, ever say, “This story is about.” Do not go on any social media and say, “I wrote a book and it’s about…” That’s boring. It screams amateur. Some people can get away with it. My advice is…
Bublish is what you make it. I talked about a book marketing site in the post Bublish Case Study. My free trial ended a couple of days ago. To recap, Bublish lets you publish excerpts of your work with Author Insights (bubbles) attached. You can share these bubbles on Twitter and Facebook. The book/bubbles are…
