Yesterday’s guest post by Cheryl Linn Martin drew a lot of comments. I love it! Here’s a writer who’s doing everything right. I hear a lot of writers say, “I know I need a blog, but . . .” Then they proceed to list excuses.Writing Tip for Today: Some say blogs have outlived their usefulness. […]
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Your Blog as Platform
Next Thursday, January 13, I’ll be welcoming Becca Puglisi from The Bookshelf Muse blog as a guest poster. I’ve mentioned the Bookshelf Muse before–Becca and Angela provide a wonderful assortment of resources for the writer. As you build your own writing platform, it may seem as if no one will ever read your blog besides […]
Author Platforms: Blogs
Just call me Your Blogness. Most of the students in last night’s class successfully got blogs up and running. From http://kellysreef.blogspot.com/ to http://.dianelmcdonald.blogspot.com/ the students are building their author platforms stick by stick. I’ll post more as I get the addresses. Way to go, class.Writing Tip for Today: A baby blog needs care and feeding […]
Should I Rename This Blog?
I have a new crop of old students, but there are a few really-new (as in they haven’t taken a class from me before) students too. Whenever I give this blog as a resource, I’m forced to explain. “My blog, GodSongGrace, has a goofy name,” I say. “It was supposed to help me market a […]
Linda’s Blog Tour–Day Two
So I get my Google Alerts for today and zip over to one blog that has my book up for the tour. One blogger, Carly, scares me by saying there are lots of stories & storytellers, but “there are some stories I don’t care for as much.” Gulp! Oh no!Then, she dives into a beautifully […]
Publishing, Promoting and Pings
My backyard veggie garden is full of spiders. One, whom I have named Charlotte, is as big as a fifty-cent piece and lives on the string beans. When I pick beans, she waves her front legs so I won’t disturb her web. I give her extra room, but I really like Charlotte because she eats […]
All the Busy Bees
We’ve been discussing ways to increase buzz (pun intended) and help first novels (like mine) gain attention and visibility. I was over on Jennifer AlLee’s blog, This, That and the Other Thing, to catch Joyce Magnin’s interview for The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow, and I was impressed at how smooth, web-savvy and like-a-website Jennifer’s blog […]
Shameless Self-Promotion: Book Promotion for Debut Novels
My novel, The Fence My Father Built, is officially out on October 1, 2009. Today, with temps climbing into the 90s, October seems forever away. But it’s really only a few weeks. From now until then, I’ll be busting my buns to get bookings on Tv/radio, signings and other events both locally and regionally. The […]
Sunday Mudbath
I’m posting on Sunday because I forgot a portion of Diane’s question: Would I consider teaching a blog class? I would, and will, but I want to learn a couple things first. I tried to embed my fiction sampler of The Fence My Father Built into this blog and learned that I don’t know how. […]