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Book Marketing On Pinterest: 3 Fun Tips You Can Use Today

If you’ve got a blog which you’re using for book marketing, be aware that Pinterest is a great source of traffic. You may find, as many authors do, that Pinterest sends you more traffic than Google.

If you’re just getting started using social media for your books, you may find this post on book marketing on Twitter useful. My program, Social Media Copywriting And Graphics: Get Attention And Sell More, provides advanced strategies.

Book marketing on Pinterest: make it fun, and be consistent with your pinning

When I coach authors, I always suggest that they choose social media networks which are fun for them. I love Pinterest, but many authors prefer Facebook.

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Productivity Made Easy: Develop 5 Ideas A Day

Did you stop writing over Christmas and New Year? That’s OK. You’ll be fine. We’ll look at some tips to help you to get back into a routine.

Years ago, when my major income came from magazine writing, I’d goof off from December 15 to January 15. In Australia, this is the “silly season”; summer holiday time. Most print magazines started work on their summer issues in August, and by October, they were all done.

So, I’d take a little break, and it was always challenging to get back to deadlines and reality. I’d wait for “inspiration.”

It took years for me to realize that inspiration comes from the writing process itself.

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Writing Fiction: Why Edit Your Own Novel?

Writing fiction: why edit your own novel?

Writing a novel involves two primary processes: writing, and editing. The process of editing your fiction is just as important as the process of writing it. (Perhaps I should call an author’s edits, “self-editing”, or revision.)

After this self-editing process is done, you can turn your manuscript over to a professional editor, who’ll help you to sort out word choice and grammar.

When you’re self-editing (revising) your novel, you’re looking at the broad picture of your novel, as well as minor details of plot and character.

Here’s why you need to be a competent editor of your own fiction: only you know your vision for your book, and an editor, even with all the skill and goodwill in the world, can’t help you with that.

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Social Media Promotions: Two Easy Image Apps To Try

A tip for social media promotions: batch create, and schedule your social media content to save time

The biggest complaint I hear about social media is that it takes too much time. Yes, it can be a real time-sink if you allow it.

Whatever I’m doing short tasks — managing email, or social media, or outlining blog posts — I like to batch create.

“Batching” means that rather than doing just one task of a specific type, you do many, one after another. You save time because you’re not constantly task-switching.

So if you’re creating social media posts, create ten, or 20, rather than just one or two, and schedule them. I like Buffer for scheduling, but there are many scheduling apps.

Now let’s look at the apps.

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Current And Upcoming Writing Programs: Achieve Your Goals In 2019

Writing programs which are available now

Let’s look at what’s available right now.

Writing programs you can begin immediately

Social Media Copywriting And Graphics: Get Attention And Sell More is our newest program. It’s on prelaunch until January 20.

I’ll be spending more time on social media marketing and advertising in 2019 — here are some Twitter book marketing tips which I published yesterday.

Watch for upcoming classes in advertising on social media.

Write AND Sell in Just 8 Hours: Create Top-Selling Ebooks FAST video training is also available for immediate download.

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Amazon Ads: Tips For The New Campaign Manager

Are you using Amazon ads (AMS)? If you haven’t logged into your account recently, you’ll get a surprise when you do. There’s a new Campaign Manager dashboard, and other changes.

Amazon ads: the changes in a nutshell

Check the top of your dashboard, and you’ll see a link to a useful PDF guide, Author’s Guide to the New Amazon Advertising Features. This gives you a seven-page overview of the changes.

Spoiler alert: if you were hoping that you might finally be able to see your Kindle Unlimited Pages Read in your AMS dashboard, you’ll be as disappointed as I am. As far as I can tell, there’s still nothing to indicate how many Kindle Unlimited downloads and Pages Read an ad has triggered.

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Book Marketing On Twitter: 3 Tips You Can Use Today

Confused about Twitter? Think of it as a way of having a conversation… with everyone on the planet. Naturally, this makes Twitter perfect for book marketing.

I adore Twitter. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been tweeting since 2007. I especially love it because you get an instant response when you want HELP. Twitter is comforting for those moments when your power suddenly goes off, or something disastrous happens, such as a bush fire way too close for comfort.

Disasters aside, you can market your books on Twitter, and you should. It’s a great way to let people know about your books.

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(New) Social Media Copywriting And Graphics: Get Attention And Sell More

Want to sell more in 2019? For many writers and authors, that’s their primary primary goal, and today, social media networks offer huge opportunities to sell.

You can reach any one on the planet who’s likely to buy from you via social media. You can use social media for “free” of course, but you’ll get faster results when you advertise.

Our latest writing program shows you how to get attention and sell more, whether that’s on social media, or on Amazon.

Use social media to sell, today

Here’s an excerpt from Social Media Copywriting And Graphics: Get Attention And Sell More.

Whether you’re selling your writing services for money, or are a self-publisher, there’s a huge market for your words, right around the globe. Moreover, it’s relatively easy to tap into that market.

That’s the good news.

Of course, there’s bad news too: the immense competition.

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Make Plotting Fiction Easier: 3 Ideas For Settings And Moods

Plotting and place: everything happens somewhere

Unlike a playwright, or a movie director, novelists don’t have to worry about a budget. They can set their scenes anywhere their imagination takes them — on a lonely island in the Pacific, or on Mars.

Aim to develop settings which will indicate a mood, because this will affect your characters, and intensify their emotions.

You could set a scene in which your main characters are out in a small boat in a storm for example. Set the scene on a cruise ship on a sunny day however, with your characters sipping margaritas, and the mood would be very different.

Let’s look at some ideas for plotting with settings and moods.

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3 Tips For Getting Things Done For Writers And Authors

I’ve discovered that if I want to remember something, I need to write it down. Physically, with a pen. On paper. Otherwise my gaze skims my digital To Do list. I forget things, and mark projects as done when there are several tasks remaining.

Pen and paper help me to think; when I write something on paper, I remember it.

Let’s look at some tips for getting things done which may help you, as they help me.

1. “If it’s not written down, it’s not happening” — writing stuff down helps

When my kids were growing up, I’d ask them to remind me to write their activities down: “if it’s not written down, it’s not happening.” Things are exactly the same today. Of course, now I have to remind myself to write things down.

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Write To Sell: 5 Easy Product Creation Tips For 2019

When you write to sell, short projects are fun (and profitable)

You may know that I’m a keen short fiction writer; I adore writing serials, for example. In 2019, I’ll be creating more short projects — if you’d like to do that too, I hope you find these tips useful.

1. Keep an eye on the zeitgeist: what are people looking for?

You can use Google Trends to see what people are searching for right now. Be aware of holidays too. St. Valentine’s Day is just a few weeks away — why not create a product or three now?

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Writing More: 3 Essential Strategies To Write Your Book

Writing more: habits, time, and enthusiasm

Unfortunately, writing more longterm isn’t just a matter of clearing time in your schedule. If it were simple, you would be doing it already.

To write more, consider:

• Your current daily habits: do you write every day? Could you develop a writing habit?
• How much time do you have to write each day, or each week?
• Can you generate enthusiasm for your writing?

Let’s look at habits, time, and enthusiasm in a little more detail, so that you can build a strategy.

But wait… Are you thinking that “writing more” sounds a lot like working more? You can write way more than you do now, and work less, when you develop a writing habit.

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Coaching And Mentoring: Offers Ending Soon

I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday break, and that Santa was generous.

Just a quick reminder about our current coaching and mentoring offerings which will be closing soon…

Book coaching: kick your publishing business into high gear

Wherever you are in your publishing career, book coaching can help. It doesn’t matter what stage you’re at: getting started, editing a book, or publishing your books, coaching may make all the difference to your book’s success.

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Writing Fiction Readers Love: Settings Make Your Characters Real

Fiction writing: draw readers into the story’s world

I’ve been thinking about setting a lot lately, because characters not only develop from their setting, they also reflect it. When I’m working with an author, and suggest that he builds up his novel’s setting, it not only improves his current novel, but the next novel too.

He’s learned a useful trick. You can use the same trick to draw your readers into your novel’s world.

Start by making the setting of your novel (or short fiction) real to yourself. When you can see and feel your novel’s setting, and know how your characters react to their setting, your readers will feel that your story world is real too.

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Book Marketing Tips: 3 Low-Cost, Savvy Ways To Sell More Books

Book marketing: time, energy, and money

You need time to promote your books, as well as the enthusiasm for it — and the money, today. So I’m always looking for easy, fast, and low-cost marketing strategies for my students, and of course for me.

Try these tips; they work for my students, so they’re worth trying because they may work for you too.

First, a tip which concerns writing.

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