When you’re an indie author you need to keep marketing at the forefront of your mind, and plan out your promotions as meticulously as you plan your next book, article, or blog post. And, since us indies are often operating on shoestring budgets, we need to implement strategies that will give us the most bang for our buck. Social media posts remain one of the best ways we can widen our reach...
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We have all been there… you suddenly realize you haven’t posted anything on social yet and you are scrambling to pull something together to talk about your upcoming release. If there is one thing I have learned being an author assistant, it is the importance of being organized in order to save time. I’m sharing my top five times to help you build strategies to stay organized. (At least in the...
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In today’s publishing landscape, authors must develop and implement an effective marketing strategy for every book launch. Finding strategies that work, identifying the ones that don’t, then making necessary adjustments for the next launch will help get your books in front of your ideal readers. Every time I launch a book, I learn something new about marketing. I’ve also made plenty of mistakes...
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Wow, how fun and fast are premade animated templates? You get music, movement and your book cover all in one short meme! Book Brush has created Animated Community Templates as a new approach to get movement into your ads, a mini book trailer if you will. And I will! Let’s Get Started Start with the Custom Creator Tool Then find Community Templates and filter to Collections then Animated Mockups....
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In the past few posts, we’ve talked about creating back covers that lead to sales, a deeper dive on writing blurbs, using segments of those blurbs in advertising memes and now for some do’s and don’t for creating the spine of your paper or hard back book. Note: see this post on creating paperback covers which explains a lot about what the various lines on your template means, why you need to pay...
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