Want to work “smarter, not harder” this year? Strategic guest posting is the ticket! In fact, Leo Babauta, mega-successful blogger, author, and creator of Zen Habits, (with more than 200,000 subscribers), states in an interview: “Guest posting is by far the best way to grow an audience.”
How do I get someone to consider my screenplay?
We are living in the age of the Internet and writers can now work wherever they want to work, writing for a magazine in California while enjoying a cup of hot chocolate in Vienna. However, having access to a laptop and an Internet connection is not always enough and, sometimes, even talent is inadequate. What if you really were in Vienna with that hot chocolate in your hand, but you could not write a single English word? Exactly, you wouldn’t write for a publication in California. Or would you?
Sounds like a fun trip, in spite of the cold food, questionable smears on your dessert plate, and nasty Nassau…
I received the following question from an author last week:
Why would any author buy copies of their book instead of referring people to Amazon or another store?
His email went on to say that he knows we don’t usually recommend book signings at bookstores and he was curious why an author would need copies for any reason other than a bookstore signing.
I haven’t yet written about this because we didn’t know when it was going to happen but…now, it’s happening!
Question for 04/29/2016: According to last week’s issue of WritersWeekly.com, which how many copies do BookLocker.com authors need to sell in order to recoup their investment? And, which P.O.D. publisher has the worst return on investment? Send your answer through the contact form here. You must be a WritersWeekly.com subscriber to participate in the weekly […]
Half or more of published books are now self-published. I published my books myself and was set to ‘reveal’ by wonderfulness to the world. However, after selling it to friends and relatives, I still had boxes in my garage. My writing career was talking a dip! It was obvious, if I were going to sell those books, I would have to be my own promoter…
I’m starting my freelance writer business and I want to ask you if you could help me find some writing jobs.
I hurled the newspaper aside, appalled by the writer’s shoddy treatment of her subject, humiliated by her failure to proofread and, even more, profoundly disappointed. I’d trusted this fellow word-slinger, and she let me down…
