by Joel Friedlander | Feb 27, 2012 | Author Blogging 101, Self-Publishing, Social Media
When we talk about building an author blog, we’re talking about getting more visitors. For most bloggers, readership size will be the way they usually measure their blog’s growth. Nonfiction authors will have more ways to measure the success of their...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 26, 2012 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Welcome to this issue of the Carnival of the Indies blog carnival. This issue is for February, 2012. We welcome your submissions on topics related to writing, self-publishing, book design or marketing books. You’ll find here a collection of outstanding articles...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 24, 2012 | Self-Publishing
by Marcia Degelman Marcia is one of the authors I’ve met at the monthly meetings of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Group. She impressed me with her persistence and how she kept making her book and her marketing better. I asked her to tell her story, and...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 22, 2012 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
One thing that happens when you go to a writing conference is you end up spending a lot of time with writers. Many kinds of writers. And that can be very instructive. There were several hundred writers in attendance at the San Francisco Writers Conference, which ended...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 20, 2012 | Self-Publishing
The San Francisco Writers Conference is going on and I’ve been going into San Francisco for the last three days for presentations, panel discussions and general networking. (The photo above is from the lobby of the Mark Hopkins hotel between sessions.) Energy...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 19, 2012 | Self-Publishing
Publishing meeting season is heating up, with writers conferences, publishing university and lots of other groups holding annual meetings. It’s a good thing. Here we take a look at epublishing and homebrewing, more on epublishing and ebook services, and some...
