Marin Writers Go Public
It’s happening around the world. Authors, published or as-yet-not, are discovering the powerful experience of producing content for the Kindle reader. For many this is a mysterious process without a well-lit path. On June 5th and 7th in Tiburon, through the Belvedere-Tiburon Recreation Department, we will shine some blazing lights on the important details that [...]
Get the Reader in Your Radar
As I view the coming year of BABS meetings under the umbrella of “Authors Go Public,” I keep hearing this little message in my head. “It’s a reader platform.” Readers are as unique and eccentric as you, dear author, so making the transition to see your outreach efforts (your blog, your Goodreads presence, your Shelfari [...]
That’s right – Authors Go Public is here!
Authors Go Public is a year-long string of events initiated by Bay Area Bloggers Society with founder Suzanna Stinnett and co-organizer and author Anne Hill. The kick-off meeting is April 10, 2012 at Tagged.com in San Francisco. Be sure to visit the Meetup site and join BABS to get the meeting date schedules. Bloggers are [...]
Is your blog a gold mine?
Blogs have a way of accumulating lots of great content. How long have you been posting on your site? A year? Two or three? If you are like many conscientious bloggers, you have been working hard to offer your readers valuable insight, guidance, discoveries and news. It’s time to take a new look at your [...]
Bridge over the river Kindle
Authors publishing on Kindle are growing ever more savvy about how and when to build their readership. (This is a major element of the massive transition from old publishing models to an indie-dominant new world for authors). How do we bring readers across the bridge? I’m the founder of Bay Area Bloggers Society, a large [...]
KDP Select, Authors and Giants
Within a few hours of receiving the email from Amazon about KDP Select, I had a dozen more emails from clients and associates. Not the first time we’re startled by the stark light coming from O Most Powerful Amazon. So off we march into two general camps. Camp 1. Amazon-Centric Authors You’ll find me here. [...]
Episodic Micronovel, you say?
The episodic micronovel. What the heck is that? In a discussion on Twitter with #OTable folks, Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu and I came to prefer the term “micronovel” for short novels being prepared for digital readers. I write to a Kindle audience and secondarily to all the other e-readers. After publishing a few non-fiction ebooks, I’m [...]
A Royalty of One’s Own
Writers may now begin to inform the publishing industry. Do we want to do that? Writers who have stabilized their income through digital publishing can start telling publishers and the pool of professionals contained in that industry how to work with writers. We can ask for what we want. As part of that new conversation, [...]
ePub Takes Another Leap
Kindle announced amazon.fr this week. Huzzah!! Go read about it on Amazon. Get your ebooks ready, Kindle is selling! Follow #epubchat on Twitter. Use Tweetchat.com to make it easier.
Take a rest in your imagination
Escaping the editor Today on the Twitter chat called #writechat, we were talking about different tools that spur our writing along. I referred to the “wild mind” technique given to us by author Natalie Goldberg in her book by the same name. I’ve used this tool for 20 years and it always does something good [...]