It's how I connect with influencers and find podcast guests, network
with other author friends, and I use it to share information every day @thecreativepenn.
Not exact matches
Lastly, our good
friends at the Incrementum Fund, Ronald Stoeferle and Mark Valek, who our readers know as the
authors the annual «In Gold We Trust» report, have released the inaugural issue of their new Crypto Research Report this December in cooperation
with Demelza Kelso Hays and several
other contributors.
«We know that substance abuse is highly affected by social influence; in
other words, who you are
friends with,» says Aida Rahmattalabi, a USC computer science graduate student and lead
author of the study.
Michael is unsure who it is from, but
with the suggestions of his geeky
friends, he becomes convinced that the
author of said letter is none
other than the hot chick he has been obsessing over, the school knockout, Deborah Ann Fimple (Preston, Jerry Maguire).
Famous
authors Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, or expatriate Americans living in France in the 1920s and 1930s such as Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Oscar Wilde... they all hung out
with fellow
author friends and gained inspiration (and companionship) from each
other.
If you get 10
author friends writing in your genre, that's basically 10 people struggling to build a platform that can share their readers
with each
other.
It's really important to me to make
friends with other authors, because one of the hard lessons that I think the majors haven't figured out is that there's no actual competition among indies.
As you might know,
other options include referrals from
author friends with representation, looking in the acknowledgements of books that are similar to yours, and searching through the Guide to Literary Agents 2018.
--(Briefly) started a book recommendation site
with a fellow
author — Launched a movie review blog
with a
friend (still going)-- Launched a t - shirt company
with a couple
other friends (sucked a bunch of time and never amount to much of anything)-- Found a publicity company for indie
authors called Book Review 22 (the second best venture)
If you'd like a free ebook of «Marry in Haste», you've got till the end of today (Tuesday 28th February 2017) to download it via this offer, along
with 11
other free books by some of my
author friends.
I have
other friends who take the hybrid route, publishing
with both traditional publishers and as indie
authors.
I was talking
with a publisher
friend the
other day about some of the scariest (and saddest) delusions many self - published
authors believe about having a successful book.
If you're not lucky enough to count such influencers among your
friends, ask yourself if there are
other authors or organizations you could collaborate
with.
Rebecca herself created our original WFP logo
with a graphics program, and then
other author friends of mine, seeing the success of our original releases, came to us
with titles of their own, and our publishing company unintentionally expanded.
Listen and help
other authors with their writing and marketing problems and you are more likely to make
friends and perhaps even sell some books.
But one of my points in
other posts was, why is it that if a reviewer has a problem
with an
author regarding a review, the reviewer goes and gets their
friends to join in and attack the
author?
Very divergent upbringing and lives but the
author somehow made them tolerate each
other (
with Aunt Midge referring) and actually become fast
friends and learn to take care of each
other.
Just the
other day I was discussing number 4
with a couple of local
author -
friends that are both traditionally published.
Are these
authors so unconnected in the writing world that they don't have
other writer
friends who are grammar Nazis and good editors
with whom they can trade work to get it cleaned up and edited?
As a rule of thumb, we always encourage our writer
friends and potential clients to have their «
author toolbox» filled
with the books, tech items and
other references needed to write their book easily and efficiently.
The
other day I was lucky enough to spend the day at the VA Hospital in the Bronx
with my
friend,
author / publisher Johnnie Williams.
Recent conversations
with author friends have reminded me of why it's so important for us to take time away from our own book writing and marketing to cheer on
other authors we know or like.
But also, you are «making
friends»
with other authors in your genre, and we all know how vital
author collaboration can be.
They are professionals you feel a rapport
with and personally choose, and often come highly recommended by your
other friends and
authors.
Join some groups and start making
friends with other authors in your genre or field.
And interviews
with other authors are a great way to make
friends in the
author community as well as gain exposure for your books.
But even if you have one book out, it can't hurt to have a reciprocal relationship
with a few
other author friends to share posts and tweets.
Kindles: Amazon has a larger catalog of modern books because amazon has been in the e-book market longer than anyone
other.They have 2,00,000 Kindle exclusive e-books
with many from the famous
authors who publish directly via amazon.There are not many choices to buy e-books for the kindle from
other stores or free book sites.The bought books are stored in the cloud.Just keep the local copies of the books.You can also lend a book to a
friend once for 14 days.Amazon also has kindle lending library which is currently available only to amazon prime subscribers.Thus via this service borrow books and read without buying.You can also read e-books loaned from the public libraries.Getting the loaded books onto the device is simpler on kindle unlike the nook.The books can easily be downloaded wirelessly via whisper sync service (an AT&T 3G powered connection).
You may have
authors who are
friends with each
other and make draw inspiration from their discussions but it lacks the panache of Jack and the boys.
On Day Three you will learn: - How to turn your book / writing into a business - How to make money beyond book sales - How to get
other people to pay for your business endeavors - How to secure paid writing gigs - How to get grants and sponsors - Professional titles you wear besides «
author / writer» - How to increase book sales without directly selling books - How to make money from content you write outside of books - How to make money while you sleep - How to make money while spending time
with family and
friends - How to make money on YouTube
A series of trips (to conventions and visits
with my daughter and grandsons), the constant work it seems to take to keep my body moving at my age, a demanding schedule of lunches and tea dates
with friends, a number of
other authors» manuscripts I had the honor to beta read, and the unexpected discovery that my short sequel had turned into two full - length books, meant that here I am, not six months, but a year later, finally, starting to work on my next historical mystery.
Such people include: colleagues,
friends, family, clients, fellow alums, friendly rivals, and any
other person
with a personal connection to the
author.
i just had a chat
with a published
author -
friend the
other day.
We are advised not to «pay» for reviews since it appears unethical, don't swap reviews
with other authors because it's unethical, don't ask
friends, etc..
But even though we're technically not adding members, we're still adding
friends and doing initiatives
with other female
authors all the time.
It has helped the users of ios to discuss and discover books
with their
friends,
authors, and from
other readers too.
After discovering the community pages, I connected
with so many more
friends and
authors who either became a member of
other writer - related pages or debuted their centralized spaces to advertise books and services.
The translator requested
other authors to work
with and my
friend recommended me.
Keeping networking and interacting
with other authors also because even a small referral from a writer
friend can help you procure the services of a reliable Christian literary agent.
One
other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book
with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-
authors help him
with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those
other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.
On the
other hand, some of the books I've reviewed are by
authors I've been
friends with for years.
As a reader too, I like interacting
with authors, but unless they're
friends of mine, I leave any interaction for sites and mediums
other than Goodreads.
You will have spent months brainstorming title ideas, checking their originality, researching what has worked for
other authors and testing them
with family and
friends.
3) The intermingling of indie
authors with blogger, beta readers,
other authors, forum
friends, Facebook
friends, has created a web where one bad apple can spoil a whole bunch (which is a combination of 1 and 2)
I was talking
with a publisher
friend the
other day about some of the scariest (and saddest) delusions many self - published
authors believe about
You could even argue that my experience isn't representative of any
other author's experience, although I have a lot of
friends in the business and it's fair to say that much of what I've found vexatious about working
with legacy publishers vexes
other people I know, too.
Join
other Published & Profitable
friends and members as we celebrate the launch, this week, of D'vorah Lansky's latest book, Book Marketing Made Easy: Simple Strategies for Selling Your Nonfiction Book Online
with a special
author interview.
Are you
friends with other indie
authors?
Twitter Social networking & microblogging service Facebook Profile Popular social network that connects people
with friends &
others Facebook Page Spotlights your book
Author Blog Personal log of thoughts and comment interactions published on a web page FeedBurner Allows bloggers to manage their RSS feeds and track subscriber usage Goodreads See what your
friends are reading; keep track of what you've read and organize your book lists
One thing I'm happy about is that most of my «
friends» on FB and followers on Twitter are aspiring
authors or novelists continuing to work on their craft, so my posts
with links to articles here and on
other blogs always offer value — useful info for this target audience, and many of them share my posts and links.