I was just asked, for the I-don't-know-how-many-eth time, how I put images in my email footer, which looks like this and automatically appears on every email I …
Book Marketing Tips
Richard Russo on Those Who Fill the Chairs
One really stressful prospect for authors is that we will be the only ones to show up for our readings. Anne Patchett's wonderful take on the problem (excuse me …
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10 Don't-Miss Sites for Marketing Your Writing (Without Breaking the Bank)
How friendly are you, really? Do you have enough followers to qualify as a cult? Are you still blogging, or have you bought into the headlines announcing …
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How to Be an Indie Bookseller's Dream
I came across a great Wall Street Journal piece on reading in bookstores, thanks to writer pal Julia Flynn Siler. Some things you'd expect ("be nice to …
A Few Choice Words on Book Reviews
Without meaning to disparage the great work some book reviewers do, I came across a passage in Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa about how critics undermine …
The Dreaded Author Photo, Version 2.0
I've written before about how much I hate photos of myself in general, and in particular the dreaded author photo, which will survive in books for generations. …
How to Build a Book Group Audience for Your Book
The biggest market of readers these days seems to be book groups. The question for most authors isn't whether they want to reach this market, but how. Some of …
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How to Prettify Your Google+ URL
For anyone who, like me, is loving the new Google+ social networking, here's a way to get a pretty google+ url: Go to: http://gplus.to/ Enter the nickname you …
8-Step Recipe for Author Readings
Help Wanted, one Novelist... The more detailed want ad: Help Wanted, one Novelist who wants to spend her days talking only to her imaginary friends, in voices …
On the Amazon and Elsewhere Star Thing
I'm posting this in response to a first-time author post in a fiction co-op I participate in, who is coping with her first one-star reader review. These are my …
