I’ve been on Instagram for about 2 and half years, time flies. It’s been an interesting experience. I have to say, next to Pinterest, Instagram is one of my favorite social medias. I discovered a cool anime on that site. You can also learn which books are popular. A couple of weeks ago, my feed…
Why do you need a marketing plan? Because you want people to read your book. You need a clear idea of what you want for your book and how you’re going to achieve it. I’ve tried winging it for the past..several years. I’m not seeing any results from it. Since I want my books to…
Keywords are important in getting your book found online. I first talked about this in the post Getting Your Book Noticed. I shared this Excel sheet with you. Funny enough, I first created this chart to layout my audience’s characteristics. I looked at books similar to mine and made a note of their categories on Amazon…
Head over to Booker Like a Hooker- that name is an attention grabber 😉 -for my guest post 10 things about a Blogger. Chains of the Sciell is out! Check out a review it got yesterday from Natural Bri! Since this is book launch week, I wanted to research any special promotional ideas. You know, to…
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?…
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror The Guardian: George RR Martin, Game of Thrones and the triumph of fantasy fiction The above article, though interesting, focuses heavily on male fantasy writer acting as if women fantasy writers haven’t done a thing for the genre, which inspired #womenwritefantasy CBS News: Game of Thrones creates ripple effect and rise of ‘grimdark’ fiction…
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/ Horror International Business Times: Oscar Genre Bias: Why Sci-Fi, Foreign Films And Horror Movies Never Get Best Picture Nominations Tor.com: Gritty Power/Rangers Fan Film is a Wonderfully Dark Reboot Tor.com: Oh No, She Didn’t: The Strong Female Character, Deconstructed There’s been a lot of talk lately in the science fiction and fantasy community about…
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror Mythic Scribes: Writing Warfare in Fantasy: A Guide to the Battle Scene BookRiot: Defining The End of the World As We Know It: Apocalyptic vs. Dystopia vs. Spec Fic Marty Young: The Wonderfully Horrific World of Female Horror Writers SF Signal: MIND MELD: Our Favorite Horror Novels by Women Stashed Neill Blomkamp Confirms New…
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…
I attended the webinar How to Blog Meaningfully and Grow Your Audience by Jane Friedman and Writer’s Digest University. She said a list of links can drive more traffic to your blog. I’ve seen other sites do this. I visit SF Signal everyday for their SF/F/H Link Post. My resource pages have the most pageviews. I…
