Sentences with phrase «like author blogging»

(relative to other book promotion topics like author blogging, web sites etc.) Thanks.

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Charles Duhigg, staff writer for The New York Times and author of The Power of Habit, answers questions from readers on Quora on topics ranging from how to develop a blogging habit to what it's like to work as a journalist.

From The Author: «When I first started blogging, like a hundred bajillion years ago (kidding it was only four), I was intent on creating unique quinoa recipes that would grab people's attention and make them hungry...»

I think some of the most successful blogs that I see from authors are usually multi-contributor blogs, where you see like five or six thriller authors or romance authors or science fiction authors get together, and that helps reduce a little bit of the burden and the pressure because you're trading off blogging responsibilities, but you're also bringing together all of the different audiences you have, and there's a lot of good cross-pollination there.

Each author publishes his / her stories independently from the others but when it comes to the iffy bits (like creating the cover, proof - reading, blogging, advertising) we stick together.

Back in 2013, I blogged for The Writing Platform about ten author websites I really liked.

Much like the App Store democratised the creation of software and blogging platforms spawned new media companies, the iBook Author and Apple's online bookstore will open up educational publishing to new companies and to individual academics who want to create their own texts.

Twitter, like blogging, can connect authors with their target readership quickly, and can be instantly gratifying.

(Like, ahem, blogging as an author.)

With authors who consider blogging to market their book, the chain of events usually goes something like this: First, the author's book nears its publication date.

But he points out that blogging and tools like social media are opportunities that are available to any author, regardless of publication outlet.

Last summer we blogged about his trailer for Super Sad True Love Story, featuring cameos by actor James Franco and authors like Jay McInerney and Mary Gaitskill.

Social media, blogging, crowdfunding, book coupons, multi-author initiatives, and reader communities like Goodreads and Wattpad are tools that have something to offer authors who want a boost in getting the word out about their books.

the only thing I haven't done on Author Central is to pull in my blog from my website, so it looks like I better start blogging.

Do you feel like a potential author's writing needs to be proven with consistent blogging?

And lots of authors have asked us for something similar so we are currently building a one - pager for them where they can aggregate all their information from Amazon — so the books they have on Amazon — all their information from Goodreads — so we'll have an integration with Goodreads — and also with all the traditional blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, so you can have your latest blogpost also on your profile.

Many authors may be unsure of what their rights are, especially when other forms of digital publishing like blogging or posting to social media are concerned.

Much like the App Store democratised the creation of software and blogging platforms spawned new media companies, the iBook Author and...

Author Elana Johnson blogged earlier this year that Goodreads had added the ability to upload an excerpt from your book, like a free preview for readers.

Observing some of my fellow self - published authors, it seems like doing a Blog Tour is a piece of this roadmap... it seems like getting lots of reviews is another part... it seems like blogging a LOT is another part...

I've frequently written about author and reader - friendly, efficient titles in articles like Book Title Tips to Save Time Writing a Book and How to Choose the Right Title for Blogging a Book.

Bestselling authors like C.J. Lyons have even replaced blogging with email newsletters.

We need to be better about not only doing our own blogging but recommending books and authors we know and like.

Blogging on your own author blog, guest blogging for others and posting regularly to social media platforms where your target audience gathers like Facebook and niche forums are good places tBlogging on your own author blog, guest blogging for others and posting regularly to social media platforms where your target audience gathers like Facebook and niche forums are good places tblogging for others and posting regularly to social media platforms where your target audience gathers like Facebook and niche forums are good places to start.

The presence of indie authors significantly enhances the population of authors overall, which helps boost participation in author support groups — like writing groups, blogging communities, and social media sites.

I'll still have announcements about new releases and promotions on the fiction side, and I'll be using the pages of my site just like any other author would — to highlight good reviews, to share deleted scenes and bonus features, to be the «center» of my promotions — but when it comes to blogging about your fiction?

Even Joe Konrath, as high - profile a proponent of the revolution in publishing as I know of, claims only that for many authors paper is becoming a subsidiary right, like foreign language or film rights (note that Konrath first blogged about this almost four years ago.

One of us, after reading up on author platform, branding and the like, suggested we might benefit from working together to pin down our author identity: What our persona is, for the purposes of placing our manuscripts, blogging, reading publicly, and marketing our work.

Perhaps they are famous or more visible due to positioning of the book or the author through organic means like their author platform online (on various social media platforms, blogging, webinars, etc.) or at live events through speaking or by offering workshops.

So over time we introduced features like TEXT - covering all types of writing — scriptwriting, blogging, editing, poetry, digital etc; SHELFIE — to give self - published authors a platform; PRESS GANG — talking to members of the publishing industry and THE TELLER for storytellers to share their craft.

Like you say, the power of publishing and blogging is that every author can choose their own voice, and that the road to success is paved with consistent projecting of that voice over time.

Like interning or freelance writing with no contract or financial agreement in place beyond maybe a few bucks, guest blogging to help out other authors and hoping to gain a few readers, blog tours where again, you read and review to help out other authors, and yes, even blogging, all of it is done for free with little to no compensation and no guarantee it will further your writerly aspirations in the long run.

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By night, he becomes Chuck Wolfe, urbanist, author of books like Urbanism without effort and blogging at My Urbanist.

In my view, serious and evidence - minded people like lawyers make better authors than they do journalists but often I observe the risk of confusing legal journalism with legal blogging and with legal publishing.

A blog reader once told me that when a blogger stops blogging it's like an author stopping in the middle of a story, that she always wonders how it ends.