Quick Updates for 2012-01-12
Member News for Matthew Johnson, Allan Cole, and Ferrett Steinmetz.
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BookStoreMarketing.net: Beware Spam PR Services
Recently I’ve gotten a number of questions about BookStoreMarketing.net, a service that promises to promote authors’ books to bookstores via a printed catalog, a promotional email, or both.
Building a Career, Information Center, Networking and Self-Promotion, The Business of Writing, The SFWA Blog
Guest Post: Book Publicity: Working with Bookstores
If you do set up an event at a store, it may sound obvious, but an author promoting their event on their own Facebook and twitter helps out a lot. We have our own ways to publicize an event to our customers, and we have our events listed in the newspaper weekly, but the more an author can say, “I’m going to be in this city, on this day,” the better our event turnout is going to be.
Building a Career, Information Center, Networking and Self-Promotion, The Business of Writing, The SFWA Blog
Guest Post: Debut Author Lessons–How to deal with self-promotion and award season
Let’s talk about self-promotion and how it feels icky.
Yes, self-promotion is awkward to do the first time. Yes, it is very easy to do badly. But–it is incredibly important to your career. Someone asked, “Isn’t it enough to write a good story?”
No.
The SFWA Blog, Writer Beware
2011: A Writer Beware Retrospective
As we begin the new year (Writer Beware’s fourteenth!), here’s a look back at some of Writer Beware’s most notable posts and warnings from 2011.
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Happy Holidays From Writer Beware
Because even watchdogs have to rest sometimes, the Writer Beware blog will be taking a break over the holiday season.
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Nebula Awards Interview: Jack McDevitt
The research is simple. I pick up phone and call a physicist. Or whomever. I don’t trust myself to do my own research because I don’t have the background. I should mention that, across thirty years, I’ve made countless calls, often to strangers who just happened to be at the office, say, in the Lowell Observatory.
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Guest Post: RamboCon – Proposed Sessions for an Imaginary Spec-Fic Convention
Some panel ideas, which any convention organizer is welcome to grab.
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Publisher Alert: Arvo Basim Yayin of Turkey
A couple of weeks ago, I began hearing from self-published and small press authors who’d been approached over the summer by a Turkish publisher called Arvo Basim Yayin.
The SFWA Blog, Writer Beware
D Publishing: Dymocks’ New Self-Pub Service
Like Amazon and Barnes and Noble, Dymocks is a major book vendor. Unlike Amazon and Barnes and Noble, it doesn’t have its own ereading device–so D Publishing does not resemble the free, direct-to-device self-pub services offered by Amazon and B&N.
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Quick Updates for 2011-12-16
Member News for Ian Creasey, Paul Cook, Ed Greenwood, Robert Lowell Russell, Eric James Stone, David D. Levine, Eugie Foster, Ferrett Steinmetz, Karen Azinger, Brit Mandelo, Jay Lake, Jim C. Hines, Jody Lynn Nye, Laura Resnick, Jennifer Brozek, and Nancy Fulda.
Building a Career, Information Center, The Business of Writing, The Craft of Writing, The SFWA Blog, Writing TechniqueGuest Post: How I Went From Writing
Guest Post: How I Went From Writing
2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day
When I told people at ConCarolinas that I’d gone from writing 2k to 10k per day, I got a huge response. Everyone wanted to know how I’d done it, and I finally got so sick of telling the same story over and over again that I decided to write it down here.