Also, the article says, readers now expect to connect with
their favorite authors on blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and more.
Not exact matches
Recently
on the TED Ideas
blog Anthony Tjan,
author of Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters and CEO of VC firm Cue Ball Group, talks to Julia Fawal and shares his
favorite techniques for screening out jerks during job interviews, including these three questions:
(example — one of my
favorite teen fantasy
authors — and yes, I still read teen fantasy even though I'm mid-20s — is sherwood smith, and she is always answering questions for readers
on her
blog and a live journal community — her
blog is http://sartorias.livejournal.com/).
Hi Linda — I saw your hauntingly beautiful trailer
on Silvia's
blog, and I've got Yakimalli's Gift
on my Amazon List for my next order — who can resist an Indie
author recommended by one of my
favorite bloggers, coupled with Native American flute music and historic photos of «our Ancients»?!?
You've published your ebook, done book
blog tours, pimped your work
on Twitter and Facebook, and you even got such - and - such
favorite author to provide a blurb.
But luckily I found it a few months later, and this
blog now gets an average of 12,000 hits a month
on its four monthly posts and I have a
blog partner, Ruth Harris, who is one of my
favorite best - selling
authors — someone I'd never have dreamed of meeting three years ago.
One of my
favorite tutorials
on creating fixed - layout ePUBs is R. Scot Johns's (@RScotJohns) seven - part series of posts «How To Create Fixed - Layout iBooks»
on Scot's
Blog: The Adventures of an Independent
Author.
Support your
favorite cause: Use your
author blog to talk about something that truly matters to you — and give readers the opportunity to do something about it by sharing links
on your
author blog.
I found several great
blogs on the subject, and some truly terrific gems from my
favorite authors.
Debdatta has asked all participants to discuss our
favorite book or
author on our
blog, so here I go... To -LSB-...]
(1) Browsing in a bookstore (2) In person recommendation from people you know (3) Browsing online book sites (4) Best - seller lists (5) From books I've sampled (6) Following
favorite authors on social media (7) From book recommendation lists (8) Library or library staff recommendations (9) Book review
blogs and sites (10) From online retail sites that recommend based
on what I've bought / read before
It's too early to tell but I will be watching closely... Although I don't have a large following yet, I do have a few of my
favorite authors on my Facebook page and will re-post this
blog there to see if it can be helpful for them and I can possibly get their feedback as well.
Author Andrea K Höst shares «A Rough Guide to Diana Wynn Jones» in her recent guest post
on the Book Smugglers
blog (one of my
favorite review
blogs, by the way.)
Yesterday I spoke at an AAR / Association of
Authors» Representatives panel together with Connor Raus (who runs digital advertising agency CRKWD) about understanding social media and how to use it effectively — as you know, a
favorite topic of mine here
on The Book Publicity
Blog.
The folks at one my
favorite authors blogs, «Where Writers Win,» listed the 20 most retweetable words
on Twitter along with the 20 least retweetable words.
If you have a
favorite thing of mine, leave a review
on Amazon, or Goodreads... sign up for the free signed copy giveaway
on Goodreads for my novel Gideon's Curse... buy «Remember Bowling Green» so I can donate the money to the ACLU... the thing that would make me feel the best
on my birthday would be to entertain some people, and to feel as if I write — and I talk about that — and it's of more than slight, passing interest to a few of the thousands of folks who follow me between this profile and my
author page... Going to put this
on my
author page as well, and
on my
blog so it goes to Goodreads, and
on Wattpad, where literally tens of thousands of people read my novel Heart of a Dragon for free, and loved it (from the comments) but could not ring themselves to pay the $ 2.99 or $ 3.99 to read the rest of the series... writing is a lonely profession... help a fella out.
Over at Milenomics, one of my
favorite travel hacking
blogs, the
author strives for EQM - Zero,
on the grounds that it's so easy to earn rewards currencies that spending actual money is a mug's game.