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Building Blog Traffic: Anatomy of a Blog Post
A blog is only as good as its reach, or audience. How many people READ your posts? The more people who read your post, the more popular your blog will be and you can monetize the blog with advertising...
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An Author’s Life…Some Dutch Ups and Downs….
In conversation with a charming Dutch publisher at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Festival in Harrogate * last week, I was reminded of a rather ego-flattening event that occurred the first time I...
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Who does it work out for?
I really thought with a relaxing vacation at the Oregon Coast and even a challenging camping trip where we hiked into the mountains with the kids would recharge me enough to actually write something...
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E-book Promotion: 10 Things You Should Be Doing
1. START PROMOTING BEFORE YOUR BOOK IS OUT There are several things a writer can do prior to their book coming out. A month or two before the release, I begin putting things in place that will create...
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Tips To A Successful Online Book Release
We spend months writing our novel, editing our novel, talking to everyone we know about our novel, even go as far as a tweet or two or a couple Facebook status’ about how many words you completed that...
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99 Cents is the New Free!
When Amazon first introduced KDP Select in late 2011, I decided to give it a try. Of course this meant pulling my books from all the other sites they were listed on, and I wrestled with the decision at...
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Tips On Reaching Blog Tourists
I have heard over and over how blog tours and blogs are dying. I don’t see that. In fact, doing a blog tour is one of the best marketing tools I keep in my writer tool box and pull out with every...
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Writer Hopscotch It's one step forward, and a jump to the left for...
Two years ago, I decided to take my writing life in my hands and self-publish. At the time, I worked in the trade publishing industry and I saw the free-fall trade publishers were going into (either...
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Dear Catherine…
To My Darling Daughter Catherine, Before you were born I was searching for a name and I chose ‘Catherine’. I knew it would be perfect and it was. Your name means “pure” and that is exactly what you...
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