by Judith Briles | Nov 29, 2022 | Book Marketing, Book Success, eBooks, Holiday Book Marketing, Special Posts, The Book Shepherd, The Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame
Tis the Season … What’s your purpose? For your writing … your publishing … for you, as an author? How about others? We all have a purpose … sometimes it’s myopic; others, multi. I’m one of the “multis” … many items, concepts, events, and groups I care deeply...
by Judith Briles | Nov 15, 2022 | Book Sales, Book Selling, Book Success
Got a Book Coming? Get 7 Tips to Pre-sell It! Are you selling your book BEFORE you have a physical copy? Smart authors know that bookselling starts before a book comes out. They learn not to wait until they have a book in hand. Did you know that you can presell with...
by bs_admin | Oct 25, 2022 | Author Success, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Book Success, Judith Briles Unplugged
Saturday, I presented an all-day ZOOM Unplugged—Book Marketing & Social Media. An all-day Zoom event is a lot of time and energy—a brain-jamming experience. A few hundred blogs ago, I did one on the pros and cons of in-person and online events. My conclusion is...
by Judith Briles | Sep 13, 2022 | Author Success, Book Publishing, Book Success
What are your author and publishing expectations as this year enters its final phase? Have you thought about them? Have you written them down? Start a new habit for you and your book to close out the year with success as you wrap up the final months of the year. Don’t...
by Judith Briles | Aug 23, 2022 | Author Success, Book Awards, Book Success
Which book awards do you enter? Do they matter? And should you? Let’s start with the second question first. The answer: sometimes. Depending upon the tenacity of the author/publisher in getting the word out about the book and the award, you could be wasting your...
by Judith Briles | Jul 26, 2022 | Author Success, Book Publishing, Book Success, Social Media, Writing Success
The Power of a Social Media Post When the follower of a California fire took to Twitter to post about it in 2007, hashtags were born. Desiring to add ongoing information, @NateRitter pushed out Tweets every few minutes about the #SanDiegoFire. Others joined in. Locals...
