What Would Love Say If It Was Asked Its Opinion?

by bookshepherd_admin | Mar 24, 2020 | Author Success, Book Marketing, Book Publicity, Book Publishing

Note to my publishing friends: Instead of what I had scheduled for my blog today, I reached out to the members of my Friday coaching group last Friday to share their thoughts during the “shelter in place” time that many of you are experiencing. Connie Munde, author of...

Are You Part of the 80% Who Wants to Write a Book? by Judith Briles

by bookshepherd_admin | Feb 25, 2020 | Author Success, Book Publicity, Writing Success, Writing Tip

Have you thought of writing a book? Did you know that over 80% of Americans want to? Do they? Nope–maybe they don’t think they can … or they are afraid … or they just like to talk about it, but never get off the dime. But it stays in their...

Authors Thinking Ahead … What’s After Your Book? Another Book … or a “Product”?

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...

Hot Spit! Being on TV Will Sell Truckloads of Books!

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...

Tips for #Authors to Become a Rock Star with LinkedIn

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 …...

Ready, Aim, WRITE … it’s National Novel Writing Month. Get your rough draft of 50,000 words going!

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...