I am extremely grateful for my local bookstore, The Sherwood Park Bookworm for working with me to host a children's colouring contest. As my little monster, Rumble's story takes place at Halloween it is the perfect time of the year to get kids involved and read the...
Over the last fourteen years of being a published author, I have become less nervous about reading to an audience. I'm not sure anyone is ever totally confident when standing in front of a large group of strangers, but I might be wrong. Anyway, here are some tips to...
Pinterest is a virtual bulletin board, it is used for a multitude of reasons, whether for recipes, décor ideas, clothing and more. Many writers use it for inspiration for their current work in progress, or for future ideas for stories. Images are a powerful tool for...
As authors we use a number of social media platforms to promote and raise awareness of our books. By keeping informed of the differences in the gender split and age groups for each platform, we can tailor our posts for our specific genres, and age groups. This allows...
At the start of each year, some of us decide on goals for the year. These range from the most common ones, such as weight loss, fitness, and stopping smoking, the ‘healthy ones’ in other words. But, what of the other goals, the practical ones, so to speak? For authors...
The next site that offers an author profile page is Amazon. As you can see from the image below of my author page on Amazon, it can detail not only your bio and books but have a link to your blog, book trailers, videos and more. As with the Goodreads process there are...
As authors we want readers to find us and our books. There are a couple of sites that offer author profiles that you can set up yourself. Firstly, there is Goodreads. Not only can you create your own profile but actively promote your book(s) and also connect with...
What is your motivation for writing? There are as many reasons to write as there are genres. We may want to persuade, catalog or inform on 'real' events or topics but many of us (fiction authors) want to entertain. It is an author's purpose, to bring to life a...
Today's #AuthorToolboxBlogHop We are all vying for attention on social media and one of the ways we can get more exposure is to use hashtags. Put simply a hashtag is a label for content. It helps followers, who are interested in a certain topic, quickly find content...