7 fool-proof marketing tips to promote your blog
So, you want to promote your blog? Here are some blog marketing tips on how to do so. Have good content, posted regularly. It's best if this has a narrow scope. Since I write mostly genre fiction - fantasy and sci-fi - I post things of interest to fans and fellow...
sneak peek: IN THIS LIFE (ch 2) “Fast paced, well-written…amazing”
IN THIS LIFE (ch 2) by Terri Herman-Ponce
Basic Book Marketing Tips
It’s Sunday afternoon, and it's raining cats and dogs. Which makes this afternoon even more melancholic than Sunday ones traditionally are. So, I decided to get some work done, hoping to forget the sad weather outside (on the upside, the garden badly needed some...
More Covers: The Power of Six
Following everyone's private and public feedback on the cover of my new book, an anthology of short sci-fi stories, I'm pleased to report that I've now made more changes. No one can accuse me of ignoring your feedback, as I've changed the cover colours, images and...
Branding Oneself, by Angelia Vernon Menchan
I met Author Angelia Vernon Menchan through the RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB, and she has kindly offered to share a guest post here, regarding the all-important brand concept. So, here it is: "I created a brand once I became an author quite by chance. I was encouraged to...
8 Easter Books
Easter has always felt a bit strange to me - at least during my Edinburgh years. Back in Greece, it's such a big thing, lasting for the best part of a fortnight and culminating on Easter Sunday, with roast lamb rotating on spits in every garden. Like I said, a big...
Cover Help Needed!
I've spent most of today designing the cover for my short science fiction stories collection, titled "Six Days a Week" (what do you think of the title? Since the collection has six stories, I thought it appropriate.) As is always the case with these things, I've...
Beta-readers wanted
Exciting news! While waiting for my wonderful beta-readers to finish Mad Water, the third book in my epic fantasy series Pearseus, I finished the first draft of another book I've had in the works for quite a while now. It's a collection of six short sci-fi stories....
Punctuation in Dialogue
Fiction Editor Beth Hill has written what is possibly the most comprehensive guide on dialogue styling. I'm copying it from the Editor's Blog, because I think it deserves to feature prominently as a guide. Dialogue has its own rules for punctuation. Commas go in...
New Urban Fantasy: Fairy, Texas
Fairy, Texas by Margo Bond Collins, is a YA Urban Fantasy book. It is a well-written, fast-paced adventure that goes through the genre conventions with gusto, sucking the reader into the story from the start. I believe any fan of the genre will agree with me this is...
Ebooks: Is free the new paid?
As we all know, the publishing world is in major upheaval. With ebook prices dropping even for big authors, and so many ebooks available for free, are we witnessing the end of the paid model? And what might replace it? I can see four distinct models emerging from all...
What’s the best title for your Blog Post?
I read on Hubspot an interesting post by Sarah Goliger, with the results from 11 title tests, and complemented it with information from the Author Marketing Experts blog. Here's the main takeaways: Frame your blog post title as a question to make it more intriguing....