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...
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Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – Connection to the Writing Community Around the World
Without the planned author interview blog post for today, I was curious to look at some of my past posts and came across this one from March 2014. It is quite eerie how relevant it is for today. We are fortunate to have the ability to connect with people from all over...
Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – Author Platform
As published authors, we soon realize that writing the book is only half the story - literally! Now we have to promote it in order to sell it. When I published my first children's picture book, Rumble's First Scare this became clear quite quickly, when I was asked...
My Author Online Interview
I had so much fun doing this interview...nice to be on the other side of an interview for a change 🙂 https://onlineforauthors.org/mandy-eve-barnett/ Mandy Eve-Barnett is a multi-genre author writing children’s, young adult and adult books. Every story has a basis of...
Author Tool Box Blog Hop – Tips on Promoting Your Book
#AuthorToolBoxBlogHop As writers and authors, we are formidable in our ability to create narratives but we also have to learn how to market the 'end product' of those many months or even years of creativity. We become a book business. The first avenue many authors...
Ask a Question Thursday
Today's question is: What steps do you take for a book launch? Obviously, there are a multitude of on-line tips and many books & blogs covering this topic but have you found a creative way to get your new book noticed? My new novella, Rython Legacy will be...
Author Interview – Catherine Saykaly-Stevens
What inspired your latest novel? This time around, I’m writing a screenplay. I see a new space opening up in Transformation/ Transformation thrillers. The inciting idea was watching a young man open his 23ANDme results and discovering that he was not related to either...
Marketing Tips from Authors
As we are nearly at the halfway point for this year's author interviews, I thought it would be interesting to review the answers I received to the question: What is your best marketing tip? The answers are varied and, I think reflect how comfortable (or not!) writers...
Author Interview – H.M. Gooden
Thankfully we have the interview details now so only a day late 🙂 What inspired your latest novel? I’m currently working on a novel for a retelling of Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham…it has completely gone off script though so I’m interested to see where it...
