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Public Speaking for Writers

November 16, 2015November 15, 2015Business of Writing

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

By this point, I’ve made my peace with public speaking. I’m even able to look forward to it with a small sense of anticipation—that I’ll get an opportunity to share information.

I think that my main issues remaining with public speaking are that I don’t enjoy:

Talking about myself
Talking about my books

And I know this seems bizarre…after all, isn’t that the whole point of public speaking as a writer?

But the truth is, I’m rarely asked to talk about myself or my books. I’m usually invited by writers’ groups or conferences or schools. When I am asked to talk about myself, I frequently fudge a little and talk instead on the writing life. Because I’d always rather talk about writing than about me.Continue reading

Twitterific Writing Links

November 15, 2015November 14, 2015Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 30,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

How to Get Blurbs for Our Book and Use Them In Our Marketing: http://ow.ly/UcsFP @DianaUrban

A Book-Signing Cheat Sheet: http://ow.ly/Ucsd4 by Bonnie Randall Continue reading

Time Savers for Writers

November 13, 2015November 9, 2015Business of Writing

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Frequently I find that I need the same information over and over again for a wide variety of different tasks. I might be signing up to have my book considered for translation, or pitching BookBub, or submitting my book to a library for consideration. I spent a lot of time looking the same information up online over and over again.

I finally realized that I would save myself a good deal of time if I compiled these things into a document that I could easily put my hands on…and do it for all of my books.

Amazon Affiliate links for all books in digital and print form. I’m an Amazon Affiliate, which means that when a reader clicks on one of my tracking links to get to my books on Amazon, I get a small commission based on what they buy when they’re on the site. It’s a passive way to make a little money. For a while, I was plugging in my book’s links into the Amazon Affiliate link generator, copying the link, and putting it wherever I needed to list it (Wattpad, Facebook, etc.) Continue reading