by Joel Friedlander | Jan 12, 2014 | Writing
I want to make you famous. Well, famous to a well-defined group of people; the readers of this blog. As the world of self-publishing expands, it becomes more difficult for any one person to stay up to date with new services, advancing technologies, and the people who...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 15, 2013 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Ed: Monday’s blog will be this month’s Ebook Cover Design Awards (over 100 covers this month!) and Wednesday I’ll have a remarkable article from an author who posed the question, “Which is more important; your genre, or your author...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 2, 2013 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
In yesterday’s New York Times there was an opinion piece by Gary Gutting, a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Here’s a quote: “Even highly gifted and relatively successful writers, artists and musicians generally are not able...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 22, 2013 | Marketing
by Kate Tilton (@K8Tilton) Kate is the social media manager for BookDesignTemplates.com and has been doing an incredible job running our month-long NaNoWriMo promotion this month. Today Kate takes on the question of what exactly a “social media manager”...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 30, 2013 | Author Blogging 101
There’s no better marketing, platform-building, authority-establishing, trust-inducing tool for nonfiction authors than an author blog. And for some fiction authors, too. [Also see: 6 Compelling Reasons Why Authors Need to Blog] Although getting started in...
