by bookshepherd_admin | Dec 4, 2018 | Author Success, Book Marketing, Book Publicity, Book Success
Authors Thinking Ahead … What’s After Your Book? Maybe … Another Book … or a “Product”? Whew … you’ve worked hard … your book is outselling, reviews coming in, maybe a little speaking (personally, I hope...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 30, 2017 | Author Success, Book Marketing, Book Publicity, Book Success
Getting on a Major TV Show Will Sell Tons of Books and a Publicist Will Get Me On for Sure … IT WILL NOT! Repeating the last few weeks’ blogs on book marketing: If I have heard it once, I have heard it over a thousand times. “I don’t want to market my books … I just...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jan 10, 2017 | Author Success, Book Publicity, Social Media
Rock Your #Author Branding and Expertise with LinkedIn Over the weekend, I attended the workshop delivered by LinkedIn expert and author of LinkedIn: 101 Ways to Rock Your Brand, Viveka von Rosen for the AuthorU.org community. Of course, it was ALL about LinkedIn …...
by bookshepherd_admin | Nov 1, 2016 | Author Success, Book Competition, Book Publicity
November Delivers National Novel Writing Month! Using the abbreviation and hashtag, NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month challenges participants to write 50,000 words (their minimum number of words for a novel) from November 1 until the deadline at 11:59PM on...
by bookshepherd_admin | Sep 13, 2016 | Author Success, Book Industry News, Book Marketing, Book Publicity
This week delivers the seventh annual Author U extravaganza. And an event that is designed for both newbie and establishes authors to basically take their book to any level they envision. Throughout the Extravaganza, attendees have the opportunity to interact with 30...
by bookshepherd_admin | Aug 2, 2016 | Author Success, Book Industry News, Book Marketing, Book Publicity, Writing Success
The Stages of Writing and Creating Your Manuscript 1. Write 50 to 100 words. Congrats … that’s a PARAGRAPH.2. Next, string 225 to 250 words … that’s a PAGE.3. Depending on your chapter length—remember, I’m a fan of “short is the new black”, create...
