Tech Tools and Promo Tips

Business of Writing, Promo Tips, Uncategorized

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Tools and Tips for Writers

Here are a few updates on what I’ve found helpful or interesting lately in the promo and writing worlds.

For the writer who has multiple releases a year, a Coming Soon page on your website. This was suggested to me by a reader who was having a hard time keeping up.  The important thing with this page is to keep it updated since it’s not one of the pages we’re on very often.

A nice link to add to the Coming Soon page (along with other pages on our site) is a link to our Amazon Author Central page with instructions to follow us there.   I just put a simple: ” Follow me on Amazon for release updates” up.Continue reading

Twitterific Writing Links

Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific

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.

Survey: Translated Fiction Outsells English Fiction in the UK:  http://ow.ly/6Oi83009TIq @DennisAbrams2 @pubperspectives

How Crutch Words Are Holding Back Your Writing:  http://ow.ly/4ni9oi by Ian Chandler @write_practice

Classic adventure plot notes:  http://ow.ly/4nia3x @robinrwrites

Writing for Kindle Worlds: the Good and the Ugly:  http://ow.ly/ThMW300crl1 @IndieAuthorALLI  @tobywneal

5 Elements for Crafting a Compelling Story:  http://ow.ly/4nia0n @WillBluntAU

Why Your Business Biography is Killing Sales: http://ow.ly/4ni8Yw  @MilesAllen1

Learning from Literary Short Fiction:  http://ow.ly/4ni9ji @artofstoriesAB    Continue reading

Promotions on the Ground

Business of Writing, Promo Tips, Uncategorized

by Danika Stone, @Danika_StoneEdge of Wild by author Danika Stone

 

If you’re an author, you’ve no doubt heard the term “Street Team”. It’s one of those phrases that gains popularity in an instant and is thrown around with the wink-wink, nudge-nudge sense that you should know what it means.

But what if you don’t?

What if this is your first book launch, and you’ve never had to publicize a book before? What if you’re struggling to find your way through the first round of edits – never mind promotions! If that’s you, then here’s your answer: a five-point summary of street teams, and how having one can help YOU sell your book faster and more effectively than you ever thought you could.Continue reading

Pros and Cons of Changing Genres

Business of Writing

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Pros and Cons of Changing Genres by mystery author Elizabeth Spann Craig

About a year ago, I wrote and released a book in a completely different genre than I’ve ever written before. The dystopian novel was something I called ‘cozy zombie’–zombie lit without the gore.  The book was what’s known as an ‘attack novel.’  The concept had bugged me for years and I finally broke down and wrote the book.

A year later, I’ve found that the experience of changing genres had its pros and cons. Continue reading

Twitterific Writing Links

Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engineTwitterific Writing Links (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.

And Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers out there!  

How Far Back in Time Could You Go and Still Understand English? http://ow.ly/4n1WTw @scholarlykitchn

How Disaster Movies Creep Into 1 Writer’s Writing: http://ow.ly/4n1X24  @WomenWriters  @SamTongeWriter

How to be a Better and Happier Writer:  http://ow.ly/4n1X6N @MahinWriter

3 reasons why you should show your work:  http://ow.ly/4n1X8Y @austinkleon

On worrying about the scarcity of new ideas: comic from @inkyelbows: http://ow.ly/4n1XeZ

The Literary Spy Novel: 5 Recommendations:  http://ow.ly/4n1XmY @paulvidich @ElectricLit               Continue reading

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