Authors Connecting with Readers: What’s Your Style?

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What is your favorite way to interact online with your readers? And how do you know what readers prefer? Do you join in conversations on Goodreads? Or Google +? Yahoo groups? Some authors swear by newsletters. Others say their readers don’t like them. I’ve noticed those who visit my website will more often leave a [...]

Amazon and Keywords: How to Choose Keywords that Work

I’m still travelling in Australia (hopefully somewhere near the Great Barrier Reef by the time you read this), so I’ve invited the very helpful Lisa Grace here today to talk about keywords and how to use them to maximise your Amazon exposure… Amazon and Keywords: How to Choose Keywords that Work by Lisa Grace Recently [...]

Authors: Do you want to Mass Market or Personally Market Ebooks or Both?

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TGIF, WG2E-Land! I’ve been working on revising my ebook marketing and promotions. So far, over the course of going on three years as a self-published author, I’ve used a variety of approaches that have been very successful and led to over 100,000 ebook sales and over 150,000 FREE downloads. For example, I’ve used my First [...]

Story-trekking The Globe

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Just the other day I received a wonderful email from a reader fan in Malaysia. Two weeks before, I’d heard from a woman in Brazil. And I have ongoing tweet exchanges with a reader from Slovenia. Not to mention two of my favorite readers from the U.K., which seems like it’s just around the corner. [...]

D. D.’s Duckies: Giving Your Readers Something to Quack About

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Happy Monday, WG2E-Land! As many of you know, I’m a huge Seth Godin fan. From Purple Cow Marketing to Building Tribes, Seth is one of my go-to gurus. One of the recent lessons I’ve learned from Seth is based on this question that he posed on one of his blogs: “Is it more important to [...]