Eight Author Features in One Great FB App!
Send to KindleBookPulse provides authors and publishers a really unique self-service tool for the creation and management of your online and mobile Facebook presence. Regardless of your experience...
View ArticleSeven Ways to Put Google Alerts to Work for You
Send to KindleGoogle Alerts is easily one of the most useful free author marketing tools on the internet. You can pick any keyword or phrase to set in your alerts, and decide whether you want to see...
View ArticleHow Sharing Drives Your Author Marketing
Send to KindleI read a book review in the NY Times book review section this morning. I know that my friend is going to want to read it because it’s a review of three recent books written about Chicago....
View ArticleFor the Cause: Indie Publishing and Affinity Marketing
Send to KindleThanks to author Mary Hutchings Reed for this guest post! One of the hardest things for me to do as an independently published author (a.k.a. “self-published”) is to hawk my own books....
View ArticleHow to Make the Most of a Book Festival
Send to KindleHere comes book festival season! We hear of a new book fest every day around the WWW office, and today received a cool post on how an author can break out from the pack to sell their work...
View ArticleAn Easier Way to Self Market Your Book
Send to KindleWhere Writers Win was born from a desire to help writers become authors, and help authors get noticed. It’s been a collaborative effort of our team to create a one-stop experience for the...
View ArticleWhere Writers Win Celebrates First Anniversary with Launch of Winner Circle!
Send to KindleOkay, yes, we’re cheating just a little on the birthday thing. It’s true – the team was working with authors – individually and collaboratively – long before last year. But May 1, 2012...
View ArticleWinner Circle Q & A: Book Reviewers, Book Clubs, Competitions and Deals
Send to KindleIn case you want to learn more about the new Winner Circle before you join… Or if you’ve already joined and have a question… It might already have been answered! We’ve now built a list of...
View ArticleAuthor Scams Part 2: Six Ways to Save Yourself from Scoundrels
Send to KindleOn the heels of our May 7th post on Scams and Scoundrels, we thought it would be useful to provide some tips to avoid some of the common traps we see new and aspiring authors fall into...
View ArticleIndie Author Marketing: Even Independence Needs Direction
Send to KindleThanks to author (and WWW team member) Jacqueline Gum for this guest post, timely on the heels of our look at author scams and scoundrels… Somebody has to show you how to walk before you...
View ArticleGoogle+ Redesign: What it Means for Authors
Send to KindleThere’s been plenty of buzz in the past few days over the Google+ redesign options. According the Google+ release issued May 15, “190 million people are now active in the Google+ stream,...
View ArticleDon’t Sell Your Back Cover Short! 4 Tips for Authors
Send to KindleThanks to award-winning marketing strategist Catherine Foster, executive publisher/CEO of BlueSky Publisher Partner for this guest post! This is an exciting time to be an author because...
View ArticleGoodreads Office Hours for Authors!
Send to KindleGoodreads recently announced that they’ll be hosting their first “Office Hours” chat via a new group just for Goodreads Authors. Have questions regarding your author account? Said...
View ArticleAuthor Marketing: Calling Card Strategy
Send to KindleAh, remember the days of calling cards? Those elegant slips of fine paper that announced a visitor, adorned only with a gentleman’s name… later his address… and later still, well,...
View ArticleFive Social Media Conversation Starters
Send to KindleWhen I coach authors on social media I get this question a lot: “If I’m not supposed to talk about my book all the time, what else can I say?” At which point I think about that scene in...
View ArticleBook Expo in the Apple: Take a Bite
Send to KindleThanks to Steve Piacente, author, blogger, professor and creative director at The Communication Center in Washington, D.C., for this guest post! Books and authors front and center at BEA....
View ArticleAuthor Social Media: How to Attract A Bigger Audience
Send to KindleAuthor: “So I have all these social media accounts but I need more followers.” WWW: “Great – so what are you sharing on those pages to attract them?” Author: “Well, not much because...
View ArticleTwo Great Ways to Connect With Book Clubs
Send to KindleOne of the principle reasons we launched the Winner Circle was to provide authors with a cool, vetted list of live book clubs around the country. Our interactive map lets an author click...
View ArticleNew: Book Festivals, Writers Conferences and Competitions Interactive Calendar
Send to KindleThe WWW team is excited to announce the launch of our new interactive calendar in the Winner Circle! Our cool new calendar, full of upcoming book festivals, writers conferences and...
View ArticleFive SEO Tips to Bring Readers To Your Site
Send to Kindle Thanks to author Connie Davis for this guest post! For authors, search engine optimization (SEO) is all about getting your name into the public eye. By following some simple strategies,...
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