by kobowritinglife | Dec 3, 2018 | Promotion/Event, Self-Promotion, The Business of Writing, Tips
By Judy Penz Sheluk When my debut mystery novel, The Hanged Man’s Noose, was published in 2015, one of the first things I did was set up a bookstore event at my local Chapters. Visions of eager customers lining up outside the door danced through my head. The reality...
by kobowritinglife | Feb 23, 2018 | Self-Promotion, Self-Publishing, The Business of Writing, Tips
Originally posted on https://damonza.com/makes-good-author-bio/ Ask any author (or indeed yourself): what’s the hardest thing to write about? Extreme violence? Affairs of the heart? Particle physics? Sure, they can all be difficult, but by no means do they take the...
by Kobo Writing Life | Jan 3, 2018 | KWL Community, My Writing Life, Self-Promotion, Self-Publishing, Success Stories, The Business of Writing, The Craft of Writing, Tips
by Tracy Cooper-Posey Here’s a question for you: Why did you get into indie publishing? There’s thousands of answers and none of them are wrong. I guarantee that one of the reasons you like indie publishing, now you’ve got a taste for it, is the high degree of control...
by kobowritinglife | Jan 3, 2018 | Self-Promotion, social, The Business of Writing, The Craft of Writing
by Chris Mandeville As writers we have a lot of shoulds. I should write every day. I should take out the trash before I write. I should Tweet. I should call my mother. I should apply for a BookBub promotion. I should be reading. I should exercise. I should go to a...
by Kobo Writing Life | Oct 27, 2017 | attention marketing, marketing, Self-Promotion, The Business of Writing, Tips
By Joe Mahoney I started making videos last July to promote my first novel, A Time and a Place, published October 1st 2017 by Five Rivers Publishing. I chose videos as a primary means of promotion because I believed they could make the biggest impact, and I could...
