We had a blast talking about the changes technology has delivered to authors, the essential skills indie
authors need to develop, the new Universal Book Link from Draft2Digital (which is very cool IMHO), and a variety of other topics.
To learn more about setting up a mailing list and the benefits of having a list, read our post: Why
Authors Need To Set Up A Mailing List, NOW!
If you Google the search term phrase «author marketing plan» you will find hundreds of articles about why marketing is so important for authors, and why
authors need to work with their publisher in selling their books.
Authors need feedback, reality checks and plain old - fashion butt - kicking.
Instead,
authors need to extend their literary skills to create a genuine bona - fide online persona that has human quirks, dimension, and nuance.
Most authors just shouldn't be thinking this way, however, because they haven't laid the groundwork for a book's success with # 1 and # 2 before this point, and most
authors need to go back and work through these steps first.
Now - a-days
authors need to be mini-entrepreneurs as well as writers — all these articles will help you find your mini marketeer inside you and let them free to promote your book and gain sales.
In the book, I basically suggested that
authors need to build author platforms and make friends, instead of being spammy and self - promotional online.
Last week, Judith deep dove into the essential «must haves»
authors need within their books.
Authors need not be US residents.
Authors need to convince people to buy their titles.
While keyword research and Amazon sales analysis software may not make for the most interesting reading, it's the type of info indie
authors need to know, if they want to try to replicate Stevenson's success.
Early on,
authors need to figure out where they're at in the publisher's pecking order, preferably after signing the contract.
I completely agree that self - published
authors need to hire skilled professionals for editing, design, title, etc..
These days, self published
authors need to know so much more about publishing than ever before.
New
authors need to ask themselves, what do I need a literary agent for?
The bottom line: Twitter is becoming a very useful tool that
all authors need to utilize.
S - P
authors need to put out high quality writing, not just a package with a trendy strategy to gain success.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that even
authors need to be organized.
Yes, they're an investment and
authors need to find a way to cover that investment.
Good e-Reader believes that self - published
authors need a quality book trailer to embed in all of the bookstores the book is listed in.
Amazon's dashboard now features a more streamlined, white space look, with a lot of the info that
authors need tucked away behind clickable buttons.
For its part, the government body overseeing the issue has agreed that
authors need to be fairly compensated through ebook lending, but also that every possible step must be taken to ensure that ebook lending by both remote and on - site patrons remains a free service to society.
«There are a couple of things that
authors need to realize,» said Rachel Thompson, author of the upcoming essay collection Broken Pieces and bestselling author of A Walk in the Snark and Mancode: Exposed.
But according to your philosophy and the philosophy of your friends, Barbara ~ Andrew Loves Me ~ (yes I've seen you on the GR thread complaining about the new policy with your friends)
authors need to have a tough skin, so you should feel comfortable around them to say whatever you want.
Social media platforms are the not the only places
authors need to «go» or be «seen.»
Authors need to make a thoughtful, careful decision before signing on the dotted line (same as they should for any contract).
To take advantage of easy, fret - free publishing and discounted bundle pricing,
authors need only add the appropriate One - Click Publishing Suite genre into their Outskirts Press shopping cart.
Authors need to make sure they do the same work in establishing location and setting, just like filmmakers do.
Even experienced
authors need editors for that second opinion, and a pair of fresh eyes.
We indie
authors need all of these.
There are plenty of tips out there for writers, but what is often missing is the honest advice that new indie
authors need to hear.
But
authors need to learn to live with them.
It is one that so many self - publishing
authors need.
However,
authors need to figure out what their experience enables them to claim as expertise.
Authors: Let's Play Show and Tell explains why
authors need to show and tell potential readers about their books and suggests how they can accomplish this.
With book sales slumping and publishers cutting back on their acquisitions,
authors need to take a long, hard look at the kinds of books they write.
While Rennert's agency seems to have settled on a 15 percent commission, Weinstein is still working out various fee - based and royalty services for the myriad of projects
his authors need.
how
authors need to review their options carefully when choosing traditional and indie publishing
Authors need to take more responsibility for their book promotion.
All authors need to know how to market their books, so this summit is geared to help you do just that... and nothing else.
It's only Day One and I've already heard all about what Indie
authors need to know, learned how to run a great author cooperative, and listened to the great Joel Friedlander talk about book design basics.
But aspiring
authors need to understand and make the distinction.
Yes, the self - publishers need to know how to produce and market their books, just like the traditional
authors need to know how to write a query letter and keep track of submissions.
Authors need to sign up for the Author Central program.
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I think maybe the fact that self - published
authors need to spend more time on the stories rather than market is perhaps to balance out the fact that under traditional publishing, there'd be a team of editor / copyeditor / agent / etc helping with the writing bit, but self - published authors, unless they outsource, are on their own for all of that.
There's been so much happening that
authors need to hear about.
For example, there may have been no more than 40 people or so in a fast - paced, tweet - storm of a session on what
authors need to know and do about promotion and publicity for their books.