There is one marketing tool I am not using at all like I could/should be. Most digital marketing focus is on social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the like have the potential to reach ginormous audiences to spread your message, promote your work, and get you seen. They can be tremendously helpful…
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Branding and Rebranding to Create Balance, Grow, and Improve Sales
I have done branding and rebranding several times. In the fall of 2016, I began to put a LOT more effort into both my fiction and nonfiction writing. I had begun to post blogs at least three times a week and was working on my fiction to publish. The question that arose at the time…
What Do You Do When You Lose a Useful Marketing Outlet?
And just like that – *poof* – a useful marketing outlet is silenced. I know I’m not the only one to have had this experience. This morning, as I started up my computer, I saw an odd request from Facebook. I knew it was legit, so I followed it. And then, just like that –…
When Selling My Books, Am I Actually Selling Myself?
To some degree – yes, Selling myself is part of the branding process. I am in the process of completing the 4th and final novel of the current story arc for my Forgotten Fodder sci-fi series. I say current arc because I have plotted out another (4 more books) and have 1 or 2 more…
Do I Make a Fresh New Play for the Traditional Publishing World?
This question of publishing – self or traditional – might not be one and done. For a time, in the late 90s, I had a literary agent. I was thrilled to have an agent. It meant I had a much better chance of getting published. However, fantasy – the finished work I had for publishing…
Must it be Quality or Quantity?
Why can’t it be both quality AND quantity? I am writing and publishing more books in 2021 than I ever have before. In total, I’m publishing 6 books this year. Three have already come out – the fourth will be out before the end of August. Two more will be published before the end of…
How do I Sell More Books?
Is there a point where I decide I can’t sell more books and quit? It’s been about a year since I began to completely focus on and write full time. During this year I have outlined and written the first four novels of my Forgotten Fodder clone sci-fi series; edited and published the 3rd Void…
There Is No One True Way
This article explores how there is no One True Way to do virtually everything.
Please Buy My Books
Why is it dirty or inappropriate to ask you to buy my books? As of this writing, I have on Amazon, for Kindle, paperback, and an audiobook or two, the following: Two fantasy novels in The Source Chronicles Three sci-fi/sci-fantasy novels in The Void Incursion One novel for my Forgotten Fodder sci-fi series One novel…
Self-Publishing and Marketing
An ongoing challenge with self-publishing is marketing. I decided, after a large number of rejections over some 10 years from both agents and publishing houses, to self-publish. Yes, I questioned if maybe I just was not as good a writer as I thought I might be. However, after much analysis, I concluded it was less…