There’s a certain kind of authentic voice and language that connects to your emotions, that you might find in outstanding creative nonfiction books and some self-help books. If you want to know what creative nonfiction is, it is the gripping,…
Towards the start of the new year, my thoughts turn to how authors can motivate themselves to write and finish a book. It pains me to think of all those amazing books going unpublished or hidden and not promoted, just…
This is an author interview with Leanne Blaney of Adventure School. What tactics did you use to attract people to your book and listing? Many people have connected on my Podcast, Ignite your Life, so many of the guests were…
Lately I’ve been running into some amateur (yet very talented) self-published writers with little knowledge of book marketing. One serial self-publisher, an obvious talent, claimed that he was “hopeless” at marketing. No more! Here’s the low-down on easy book promotion…
This post is about how you cut your book success off at the knees when you don’t commit to the publishing process. It’s also about ensuring professional quality in all books you write. Freight Train truth coming… Publishing an eBook…
Learning Instagram and Twitter for authors? In making a new account for Business Author Academy, I came across some helpful information, which I’d like to share with you. Apparently, you can use up to 30 hashtags on Instagram posts and…
Even though I’ve been writing books for ten years, a distinct lack of planning has held me back. What about you? Can you discipline yourself to research, plan and write a nonfiction book series? I’m a non-expert who writes—and self-publishes—how-to…
Don’t look, I’m changing my positioning! Weird! Some people don’t think of themselves as a ‘brand’… but really we are talking of ‘brand positioning’. While I have been setting up Power of Words for business copywriting and content marketing, I did…
Amplify is a book where you start reading and nodding along and soon find yourself down a rabbit hole. But a good one. You’ll be podcast listening — and perhaps hosting one — in no time. Having become intrigued, I…
WordPress has now become the most popular self-hosted CMS, beating out Drupal, Expression Engine and Blogger. (A CMS is a Content Management System). Here, we’ll discuss how to log in once to WordPress and measure website visitors, quickly and easily….