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What to do When Your Book Launch Fails

by Kristina Adams | Oct 13, 2020 | Publishing, Social Media and Marketing | 0 |

Most writers have been there. They spend months—maybe years—writing a book. They get...

REGISTER TODAY: Why No One is Reading Your Blog (and How to Fix it) WEBINAR

by Kristina Adams | Aug 21, 2020 | Content Marketing for Authors, Social Media and Marketing | 0 |

In 2014, no one read my blog. No matter what I did, nothing seemed to bring people to it. So...

How to Create Your Book’s Marketing Plan

by Guest Blogger | Jun 2, 2020 | Social Media and Marketing | 0 |

This is a guest post by Lucia Tang. Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and strategy, wasn’t born...

How to Run a Successful Blog Course FAQ

by Kristina Adams | Mar 29, 2020 | Content Marketing for Authors, Social Media and Marketing | 0 |

What’s the first thing you want to know when deciding if something’s for you? Maybe you want to...

How to Structure a Blog Post

by Kristina Adams | Mar 13, 2020 | Social Media and Marketing | 14 |

Writing effectively is as much an art as it is a science, and blog writing is no exception. Having...

How to Run a Writing Workshop for Children

by Guest Blogger | Feb 18, 2020 | Creativity, Social Media and Marketing | 0 |

This is a guest post by Katherine Hetzel. Creative writing workshops sound easy to do—you just find a load of different prompts, give them to the people who come, and let them write about them. ‘Simples,’ to...

How to Create a Writer Website or Blog

by Kristina Adams | Nov 19, 2019 | Social Media and Marketing | 3 |

Like it or not, websites are an important part of life as a writer in the twenty-first century. Your website is the first place readers who find you in an interview, on a guest blog post, or through your books, will go to find out more information about you and the other things you’ve written. If you don’t have a website, you risk losing those potential readers and even future sales.

7 Jobs for Creative Writing Graduates

by Kristina Adams | May 25, 2019 | Productivity, Social Media and Marketing | 0 |

When I was coming up to graduating from my BA in Creative Writing, I received no guidance from the uni or anyone else about what to do next. Frankly, no one knew what to do with me. I was only cut out for sitting in a darkened room with a typewriter on my own with no money for the rest of my life…right?

Wrong.

Social Media for Writers: Which Platforms You Need to be on, Based on What You Write

by Kristina Adams | May 21, 2019 | Social Media and Marketing | 9 |

Having a web presence is essential for all writers in the twenty-first century.

Whether you write fiction, poetry, scripts, nonfiction or all of the above, social media can help to boost your audience.

Even if you haven’t finished your work in progress yet, there’s no excuse for not starting to build your profile now. The sooner you start, the bigger your audience will be by the time your work is ready.