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Showing posts with label Online Marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Online Marketing. Show all posts
Friday, 13 October 2017

Why I changed my mind about Facebook Pages for authors

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By Candy Gourlay For the past two years now, I've been co-running a Boot Camp for debut authors with writing pals Sara Grant  ( Cha...
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Monday, 3 August 2015

How to Self-Promote Without Losing Yourself in the Process

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By Nick Cross Whether you’re traditionally published, self-published or still trying, the pressure to promote yourself has never been gr...
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Geek List: Paying attention to Facebook Pages

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By Candy Gourlay I had a hundred million other things to do the other day but then I came upon this piece in the New York Times about ...
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Monday, 23 April 2012

Blogging is Dead. Or Maybe It's Just a Little Bit Useless.

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From OWNI.eu By Candy Gourlay EVERYONE is blogging. Don't believe all those reports that blogging is in decline because people p...
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Authors United ... the rise and rise of the group blog

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By Candy Gourlay According to the New York Times, blogging has had its moment - young people are turning to the social networks for their...
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010

TALL STORY, the book trailer : how Random House unwittingly commissioned my family to do my video

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Here it is! One of the big themes of Tall Story  ( www.tallstory.net ) is the importance of family, that geography and culture should be n...
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Online Marketing for Authors: it's about Joy and Luck

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I just read The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and what an amazing book it is. I am quite overcome. It's not just the magical writing - it...
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Friday, 25 December 2009

Geeked Up for Christmas: TALL STORY has a Facebook Fan Page!

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At one of the London Book Fair seminars on marketing this year, one of the facts bandied about was that more people now use Facebook instead...
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Charlie Higson's Zombie Trailer for The Enemy

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Just saw this terrific new zombie trailer flagged on the Tall Tales and Short Stories blog. Mind you, some author trailers manage to achiev...
Saturday, 29 August 2009

What happens when authors become cool online personalities

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Not that YA author John Green ( Paper Towns , Looking for Alaska ) is a cool online personality only because he's trying to sell his boo...
Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Titian: the Last Days by Mark Hudson -- a book trailer made by his daughter (hee hee)

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Should we get our kids to help promote our books? You can also view the video here Love the part where she says: "I think it's bori...
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Friday, 24 July 2009

Wanna sell your book? Just go on Oprah!

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If you feel for this guy, spare a thought for all the other authors out there. If you can't see the video click here (It's long by Y...
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Sunday, 12 July 2009

Twitter vs Facebook - what's a children's writer to do?

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Social Networking is dangerous territory for writers. Perhaps more so for novelists. All the writers I know seem to suffer addictive tendenc...
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Monday, 25 May 2009

Nicola Morgan's hilarious DIY video

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Yes you can! Make your own promotional video that is - and you don't need a camera or video skills or sound equipment. All you need is a...
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Sunday, 24 May 2009

Further Education: be published, be seen and be sold.

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I admit it. I'm becoming increasingly dependent on YouTube videos to keep my blog updated regularly. But seriously, you guys, I am inter...
Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Maureen Johnson manages to be funny in a serious book video

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MJ is one of the funniest YA bloggers around and here's her new video! It looks  like the Scholastic had this serious video made and Mau...
Friday, 20 March 2009

Google, Google Everywhere

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I love that Google is today celebrating the 40th anniversary of Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar which apparently sells a copy some...
Thursday, 19 March 2009

Tips for Authors on the Brink of Fame (and even maybe Fortune)

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I've just finished building Sarwat Chadda's website in anticipation of the May launch of his "goth-lit" thriller, Devil...
Saturday, 28 February 2009

... And now here's Neil Gaiman

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These are the best of times and the worst of times. Continuing on the bitter theme of how authors have to become stand up comics, film maker...
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Thursday, 18 December 2008

An Action Movie to Make Your Day and Thinking about Book Trailers

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So over on my friend Addy's wonderful fiction blog about Wilf there's an action movie to watch in case there aren't any James B...
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