by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve written a few times recently about using Goodreads to better advantage. If you’ve missed anything (making better use of giveaways and using Goodreads widgets on your website [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Last Monday I talked a little bit about Goodreads widgets on our website can help us offer some social proof to readers and maybe help drum up interest [...]
by Chrys Fey, @ChrysFey Are you on Goodreads? Your answer should be yes. Whether you’re a reader, a writer waiting to published, or an author. Goodreads is an important place to be. As an [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It has taken me a long time to warm up to Goodreads. As a writer, I’m still very wary of some aspects of the environment over there. But [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I have been building my ARC team (Advance Reader/Review Copy team) organically for years. Organically as in…I didn’t do the building myself. If a reader reached out to [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I think it’s pretty easy for our readers to miss out on our releases. We all have very busy lives and all get bombarded each day by advertising [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve read a lot about writers’ disappointment with the pricing for the revised Goodreads Giveaway feature (the changes started in January this year). The feature had previously been [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Although I haven’t run a BookBub ad, I have an author profile on BookBub. It’s free and there are excellent reasons for having a presence there, whether or [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A while back (far enough back that I can’t remember the source), I read an article that suggested writers should include their backlist titles in their author newsletter. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There has been a lot written about the importance of establishing an author platform. But what’s the best way to go about this without stretching ourselves too thin? [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Recently, I went through and updated all of my individual book pages on my website… a very tedious process, but it was a rainy day and a worthwhile [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I read a lot about the importance of book reviews to a book’s success. There are tons of articles out there about how to get more book reviews [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Through the years, I’ve run across a lot of author websites. When I see something really useful, I’ll add it to my own. Here are five things that [...]
Although I wasn’t impressed by my first pre-order experiment, I’ve grown to accept pre-orders as a good way to make sure everything is in perfect order at the retailers on release day. I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig My first blog post was in August of 2008. Along the way, I’ve tweaked the content and changed from Blogger to WordPress. I’ve also played with the number [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve mentioned before that I always feel a little apologetic when I send a newsletter to readers. I’m so inundated by emails that the idea of wanting more emails [...]
by David Wogahn, @wogahn It seems like indie authors are under siege. First Pronoun, the free eBook distribution service, closed. Then Goodreads announced their free paperback giveaway promotion tool will no longer be [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I posted on this last year, but I thought it was worth another mention. If you’re on Twitter, it’s pretty easy to find your best-performing tweets of the [...]
by Laina Turner, @laina_turner I went to a writers conference years ago, and a panelist was talking about marketing. He said, many great writers never enjoy the chance to earn a living as an [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’d been hearing that author notes could be a nice website ‘extra’ for readers or newsletter subscribers, or serve as promo copy on the product page for Amazon. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig From time to time I need a high resolution cover image. Sometimes it’s because a guest blogger has sent me an image so small that WordPress is showing [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m always on the lookout for ways to connect to readers and find new readers without being obnoxious. I’m not one to really promote on Facebook and never [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Author Michael Alvear, who has been a guest on my blog, recently sent me the results of an interesting study he’d conducted. I’m always interested in ways to [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Podcasts have become very popular as both a promotional tool and an informational/networking tool for writers. I know I don’t have the time to host podcasts, but I usually [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I spend a good deal of time finding and scheduling content for Twitter, but not a lot of time on Twitter. In the last month or so, however, I [...]
by Zsofia Macho , @maifosz While some factors are outside our power (like the preferences and trends of a particular market), there are things you can do to influence your international success as an independent [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Back when I was writing the Southern Quilting Mysteries for Penguin Random House (I’m writing the series independently now), I knew that I would need to have to [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig In the early days of digital reading, we had to carry a device around to read on. I still have two very early model kindles at home. But now [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Anyone familiar with this blog knows that I’m not a fan of old-fashioned promoting. I think I’ve sold a lot more books by using better book metadata and [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the most awkward things about being a writer is handling reviews and reader comments. The rule of thumb is to never reply or comment on reviews: [...]
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