by Joel Friedlander | Oct 28, 2012 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Welcome to this issue of the Carnival of the Indies blog carnival. This issue is for October, 2012. We welcome your submissions on topics related to writing, self-publishing, book design or marketing books. A collection of outstanding articles recently posted to...
by Jason Kong | Oct 26, 2012 | Self-Publishing
By Jason Kong I “met” Jason on Jane Friedman’s blog, where he wrote an interesting post on book marketing. I asked him for his thoughts on how fiction authors can use social media for their own book marketing efforts, and this is his response. When...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 24, 2012 | Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media
Twitter started out as a bit of a mystery: in a world of video, images, sound effects, and other snazzy web effects, it was strictly text. And in the world of blog posts, articles, and the ever-exploding universe of content creation online, it limited users to just...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 22, 2012 | Marketing, Social Media, Webinars
It was really interesting to watch, earlier this year, as Pinterest, the new social media site, exploded in popularity. All of a sudden, you had to be on Pinterest. Bloggers, internet marketers, authors and just about everyone else tried to figure out how Pinterest...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 12, 2012 | Self-Publishing
by Carol Costello I met Carol at a talk I gave on self-publishing at the Mechanics Institute Library. Carol learned book promotion from the ground up last year when she published her first novel, Chasing Grace—even though she was a master sales coach and had made her...
