Hi Angela,
I am enjoying your “Online Book Marketing That Works” series, and have gotten so many great tips. In Part V, you focus on free advertising.
If a writer did want to invest some money in this type of advertising, can you recommend a few places to do so? I’ve tried researching this online myself, but there were so many possibilites that I didn’t know where to begin.
Thanks for your help.
Antonia
As a single mother, I was desperate to make some extra money. I tried working a second job, but after I paid child care for my two young children, I pretty much broke even for my time and trouble. Plus, I missed my kids. All of the work-at-home jobs I found turned out to be scams and I truly didn’t know what to do.
On Saturday evening, we were feeding the ducks at a campground pond. They were pretty aggressive. Okay, they were incredibly aggressive…
Well, if it looks like a competitor, and acts like a competitor, and smells like a competitor…
I’m not sure if you’ve heard but the Dear Author blog has a 600+ comment post about romance writer Deborah McGillivray and the Amazon system. Here is the link.
There is also a petition in place to try to get Amazon to change their rating system. See: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/amazon_change/
Keep up the good fight.
A.T.
Writers know that nothing can match the thrill of seeing your words printed and bound between the pages of a national glossy, or better yet, perched on a bookshelf in a full-color wrapper. Unfortunately, for many of us, those experiences – and the resulting financial rewards – are few and far between…
Where does one draw the line between spam (unsolicited emails) and queries? Is it possible that if you sent a publication an email query they might report you for spamming and cause some problems for you? Obviously we don’t have publishers opt-in for query letters, or is that implied by the fact that they are in the business they are and publish submission guidelines?
Do you remember how, in the old cartoons, Bugs Bunny could fly? That’s how I jumped into freelancing – ready for immediate lift-off, blithely unaware that I was “supposed” to struggle and starve for my craft.
We spent Saturday in Washington DC. We had dinner in China Town and Max drank one too many glasses of juice…
$500 Reward Offered for Information Leading to the REAL Identity of PODdy Mouth
Imagine being contacted by one of your customers one day and being alerted to a blogger who is posting false statements and insults about you and many of your competitors on a continuing basis.
Furthermore, the blogger is writing under a fake name…which previously belonged to someone else in the industry – a respected person – who had recently retired. To add insult to injury, when you approach this blogger to correct some of the numerous errors in their blog, they post more false statements about you, attack you personally, call you names like “ugly” and “self-masturbatory”, and then blacklist you so you can no longer post comments in your own defense…all the while continuing to post false statements and refusing to correct the previously published inaccuracies. This situation is occurring right now. Read the entire story on Preditors & Editors HERE.
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REWARD!!! If you are the first to tell us the real identity of PODdy Mouth (not the original POD-dy Mouth, but the one mentioned above), and can provide verifiable proof of his/her identity, we will send you $500. We will, of course, respect your identity, but you must tell us who you really are because PODdy Mouth may very well try to trick us into implicating someone else. Please spread the word. If you know who PODdy Mouth is (or even if you want to weigh in with a guess for fun), contact: angela – at – writersweekly.com
If you or your business has had a similar unfortunate experience with PODdy Mouth, we’d like to hear about that as well.
Three industry executives, when recently asked on separate occasions who they think PODdy Mouth is, all immediately gave the EXACT same answer…
