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Showing posts with label authors marketing themselves online. Show all posts
Showing posts with label authors marketing themselves online. Show all posts
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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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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Saturday, 8 May 2010

Holden Caulfield is not Edward Cullen

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Hey readers - I'm crazy busy right now and I am so overdue a post. What to do? Let John Green do a guest post! Well ... sort of. I do...
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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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Monday, 21 September 2009

Book Trailer for Mortlock by Jon Mayhew

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Now it gives me GREAT pleasure to see someone I met on the internet get some mileage! Here's the trailer for John Mayhew's book, com...
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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...
Monday, 11 May 2009

Performing authors and Fiona's video

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My friend Fiona Dunbar's new book Tiger-Lily Gold has just come out and to celebrate she made this video (I helped!) Meanwhile, Nicola...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009

Peter J Murray's inspiring story

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Someone mentioned Peter J Murray's website on one of the message boards I follow and I casually followed the links to this video which ...
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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, 26 February 2009

My advice to authors in these hard times: don't go wide, GO DEEP

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One quick check of my blog reader before I go to Costa Coffee to avoid Facebook and I find this link to a nice piece about how the recession...
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