By Shelley Sturgeon

This will be the last This Week in the Blogs post for 2018.

Be sure to check back here next Sunday for our Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies blog carnival post and on Sunday, December 30th, we will be featuring our e-Book Cover Design Awards for November.

So, let me take this opportunity to thank you for hanging out here at The Book Designer, and to wish you and yours all the happiness of the season now–and throughout 2019.

See you in the New Year!

Melissa Bowersock on Indies Unlimited
Make Free Book Trailers with Lumen5
“When was the last time you had fun doing book promotion? I know; not my favorite thing, either. However, that was before I discovered Lumen5.com.”

Sandra Beckwith on Build Book Buzz
How authors can use Medium
“How do you get started there, what are the best practices for content providers, and how can you use Medium.com as an author?”

Frances Caballo on Social Media Just for Writers
Got Books to Sell? Try These 22 Book Marketing Tips
“What makes book marketing so tough isn’t that you run out of ideas to market your books. It’s that you have so many different plans.”

Dan Wagstaff on The Casual Optimist
Book Covers of Note 2018
“This has been an exhausting year for oh so, so many reasons, but book covers remained a bright spot for me in 2018.”

David Loy on Your Writer Platform
5 Completely Avoidable Author Website Mistakes That Cost You Fans (And Simple Ways to Fix Them)
“Your author website is the cornerstone of your writer platform and media presence, and it’s the one piece of real estate online that you can (mostly) control.”
 
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