BookBuzzr is celebrating it's birthday month in June and we'd like to thank the author community for supporting us these two years! We're celebrating with the BookBuzzr Grand Contest in the latter half of June. Watch our blog space for more details on participation in the weeks to come. We have some great prizes to be won! If you want to be a prize donor or sponsor in our contest, more details are at the end of this post.
The BookBuzzr Author Pro product which launched about a year ago, has Read more [...]
Archive for: May 2011
Keyword Research Resources – How to Increase Blog Traffic Using Keywords
Guest Expert: Shelley Hitz
Are you using keyword research resources to help your blog gain visibility in the search engines? If not, you could potentially be missing out on a lot of free traffic from the search engines.
And if you have a blog, you are most likely looking for ways to increase blog traffic to gain more exposure and fans, right? It seems like everyone has a blog these days. Moms, chefs, antique lovers...and authors. Today, writing and maintaining a blog or website is one Read more [...]
Authors: Why Guest Blogging Helps Market your Book
Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow
You are an author. You need to market your book and are looking for more ways to spread the message of your book. Guest blogging could be just the answer for you. Guest blogging is where you provide a blog post to another blogger to share with his or her blog readers. This scenario creates a win-win for both parties. You have the opportunity to share the knowledge of the subject matter of your book and the blogger receives quality content for their readers.
Here Read more [...]
Q&A: How to Make your Author Blog Work for You
Our 18th May webinar on How to Make your Author Blog Work for You was interesting and packed with great info. Our panel consisted of Laurel Marshfield (professional writer, ghostwriter, and developmental editor at Blue Horizon Communications), Teresa Morrow (owner Key Book Promotions, keybookpromotions.com) and Joel Friedlander (proprietor of Marin Bookworks, TheBookDesigner.com blog).
We faced a few technical difficulties due to which Teresa couldn't join us and we were unable to record the webinar. Read more [...]
Marketing by Creating an Online Blog Community
Guest: Bethany Ramos
Published and unpublished authors alike need to have one discernible skill to stand out in a sea of competition: the ability to market themselves. If you are a new author hoping to make a break into the publishing industry, you can take the first step in the right direction by creating a thriving online community. Agents and publishers alike will be impressed with your following, and you can use this to your advantage to sell your unpublished manuscripts.
An online community Read more [...]
Using Your Blog As A Virtual Hand Shake
Guest Expert: Tony Eldridge
As authors, it's not long before we realize that networking is an integral part of spreading the word about our book. In a workshop I did in Richardson, Texas last week, I told the attendees that no one will love your book as much as you do, so you need to be willing to spread the word about it like you were the only one who will do it.
Fortunately, we live in a time when networking is easier than ever before and through platforms like blogging, we can become virtual Read more [...]
Ten Reasons Why You Should be Blogging
Guest Expert: Penny C. Sansevieri
With all the Tweeting, Facebook Liking, and LinkedIn connecting going on, it’s easy to forget about blogging and finding the time to do so. Blogging, however, can be extremely useful for more reasons than just populating your website with content (although that’s important too). Let’s look at some reasons why you must blog and why it should matter to you!
Blogging gives “voice” to a website: In an age where there are millions of websites and millions Read more [...]
If You Have a Book You Need a Website (You Can Update Yourself)
Guest Expert: Yael K. Miller
Just to get something out of the way – yes, at Miller Mosaic we do put up WordPress-based websites for book authors, but that’s not why I’m saying authors need a website they can manage themselves.
How do I know that, if you have a book, you need a website?
First, I recently put up a website for a new author being published by a major publisher. The author was told that the author needed to get a website.
Second, let’s consider Stephenie Meyer, the Read more [...]
Author Blogging and Reader Engagement
Guest Expert: Joel Friedlander
The instructions to authors have been repeated up and down the publishing line over and over: blog, blog, blog.
Last year, Simon & Schuster instructed all their authors to start blogging. Every author I've spoken to in the last year has told me they are either trying to get a blog started or planning on setting one up soon.
Traveling the web, you come across many of these blogs. Some are lively places where readers and bloggers spend time together. Too Read more [...]
Can Blogging Really Be an Author’s Best Friend? :: The Writerly Art of “Pollination”
Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield
On Earth Day this year, Friday, April 22, I found myself reading a book about beekeeping, appropriately enough -- given that bees pollinate flowers and, as a result, make the Earth fruitful. And so, that book (A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell – pictured in her vintage bee-farming truck above, in a photograph by Scott Dine), became my Friday Reads tweet that week. (You know -- the Twitter group where readers tweet what they’re currently reading on Fridays, using Read more [...]
