When it comes to optimizing and leveraging the internet in order to sell more books, there’s no limit to the list of things you could do. So… what should you do? Which efforts are worth your time and resources? Which ones make the biggest impact? From my experience helping multiple New York Times bestselling authors […]
The Top 2 Reasons to Build an Author Platform
If you’re serious about publishing a book, you have probably heard the term “author platform.” Not everyone defines “author platform” exactly the same way, but the most important part of an author platform is the ability to communicate directly to your readers so they can buy your current or future book. An author platform could […]
Author Website Metadata: What do I need and how do I do it?
Meta data is data that describes other data. When you use a search engine and search for a name, question, or keyword the short titles and descriptions you see are metadata. Although in 2009 Google said that metadata content will no longer affect SEO officially, it definitely still affects user behavior, ie: the real humans […]
11 Tips For Your First Time as a Podcast Guest
A friend recently asked me for tips for her first podcast interview and I ended up responding with such a long answer (via slack!) that I thought it would be worth sharing with anyone else who is in a similar situation. These tips were intended for a writer who is at the beginning stages of […]
My Advice for Young Writers Who Want to Publish a Book One Day
Let’s say you’re in college or your early 20’s and you know you want to be an author. You don’t know what your future book will be but you have that fire in your bones and you know that writing matters to you and that one day you’ll publish a book with your name on […]
