Promote Your Writing Using Web 2.0 – Step 2
By Deb
In this 3rd article in a series on promoting your writing we’ll be discussing the importance of comments on your blog, and the necessity of building a list of subscribers. For previous posts in this series, click here and also here. (Links open in new windows.)
We already established in the articles mentioned above that a blog is essential to a writer, and that this blog should be on your own domain and hosted by an inexpensive webhost. One of the reasons a blog is Continue reading this post »
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Promote Your Writing Using Web 2.0 – Step 1
By Deb
Today we will focus on what has come to be known as Web 2.0, in this second article in a series on promoting your writing. See first article here. (Link opens in new window.) “Web 2-point-oh” is merely a hip-sounding term that encompasses the online interactivity created by blogging and social media in the past few years.
To put this in perspective, Web 1.0 was the days of Continue reading this post »
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Promote Your Writing Using the Newest Online Tools
By Deb
In the “olden days” of publishing, authors wrote the books and publishers promoted them. Now, unless you hold bestselling-author status, the bulk of book promotion rests on you.
In more recent years, the conventional wisdom was to use a blog to create a promotional platform. It has taken awhile, but most writers have at least heard about RSS feeds and perhaps even subscribe to some through Google Reader or another Really Simple Syndication feed reader.
I hope you have a blog and are building a list of loyal subscribers to a little newsletter or to your updates. If not, why not?! Here’s why:
Today a blog isn’t enough in itself. It’s the most Continue reading this post »
