How to Start a Professional Author Website & Blog (and why you should)
A lot of writers start out blogging on Livejournal, Blogger, and similar freebie sites. This is fine when you’re chatting with friends, family, and your writing buddies, but when you’re ready to...
View Article7 Tips for Getting More Visitors to Your Author Blog
While we all hope thousands of people will stumble across our books on Amazon, and they’ll skyrocket to the top of the bestseller charts of their own accord, it doesn’t happen that way for many people…...
View ArticleShould You Create a Website or Blog for Your Book?
If you’ve read any of my posts here, such as How to Start Your Professional Author Site, you know I’m big on websites for authors (specifically a site with its own domain name and web hosting space so...
View ArticleGuest Blogging: What Is It and Why Should You Do It?
Some authors get a little lucky, and their ebooks take off in the Kindle Store, thanks to huge Facebook/Twitter following, awesome cover art, a popular genre, a Kindle Nation Sponsorship, and/or other...
View Article3 Tips for Staying Motivated to Work on Your Author Blog
Today’s post will be a quickie, since I got the critiques back from my beta readers, and I’m excited to work on my manuscript this weekend. But I want to squeeze in a few minutes to talk about...
View ArticleSearch Engine Optimization (SEO) 101 for Authors
Congratulations on taking a gamble and clicking on this blog post. I know search engine optimization or “SEO” isn’t the most riveting topic out there (I did it for years for my day job before switching...
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Building up Your Author Blog with M Pax
I’m off on a plane ride across the Pacific today, so I’ve got a guest post for you to enjoy. It’s by indie science-fiction author, M Pax, someone I met through…can you guess? Yup, blogging. She has a...
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How to Get Your Author Blog on Amazon and Goodreads
The more people you get to check out your blog, the more chance there is that they’ll like your voice and go on to check out your books. We’ve talked about increasing visitors through search engine...
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A Little Self-Publishing Humor…
I’m doing the final edits on my next novel, and once I send it off to my editor, I’ll record a couple of new shows (I’ve scribbled down some notes for talking about how to build a platform and also...
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