On Tuesday 21st January T and I set off extremely early in the morning to London joining the commuters on the train to one of the main London Stations and then onto the Tube for a trip to West Minster Palace to meet with
other parent
bloggers who believe strongly like we do that together we can make a change for these children with our voices, teachers, students, volunteers, representatives of Save the Children and Beanstalk, MP's from
around the country and peers of the realm to talk about reading,
books and how we can make a difference.
Promote your
book using your best energy and time — evaluate how best to spend the energy and time you have — do you have enough to visit bookstores
around the country for a couple of months or your own community for a day, spend an hour each day on social media connecting
around the world with
book bloggers, librarians,
other authors and readers from your PJs in your house?
-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting
books for Smashwords — Research about the business side of being an author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a
book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)-- Scouting for
bloggers to send
book review requests to — Pitching to those
bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing) of blog posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks
around webinars or
other training you offer (e.g., planning and
booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)