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“Keep Calm and Promote!” by Adite Banerjie

So, you are a newbie author and you’re awaiting the release of your book in the next three or four months (heaven forbid, if it’s a longer wait!) After you have wrung your hands and vented to your significant other about why publishers can’t seem to get their act together, you come to a major… Continue reading “Keep Calm and Promote!” by Adite Banerjie

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“On Promoting Your Book” by Charles Ameringer

Just do it! It’s up to you. If you’re uncomfortable about tooting your own horn, get over it, because if you don’t, your book will sink into the vast ocean of eBooks never to surface again. You have to market your book boldly, broadly, and inventively; tell why you’re special and enabled and why readers… Continue reading “On Promoting Your Book” by Charles Ameringer

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“Quick Tips for Writing A Successful Blog”

Try being there for your readers constantly. Make a habit out of interacting with them. Keep the social in social media marketing or it doesn’t work and blogging is as much a part of this type of marketing as Twitter is. You don’t need any advanced degrees to succeed in writing your blog, simply being passionate… Continue reading “Quick Tips for Writing A Successful Blog”

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“The Limits and Limitlessness of the Internet” by Charles Ameringer

The internet provides limitless opportunities for the writer, while at the same time creating limitless numbers of writers, so that one may get lost in the shuffle.  You become a fleck in cyberspace.  If you have a publisher, you have a page on its website, but no assurance that anyone will visit it.  Your book… Continue reading “The Limits and Limitlessness of the Internet” by Charles Ameringer