Category: Women in Author Services
Book Trailers, SEO, and YouTube
S. Kelley Harrell has contributed 5 articles to Women Writers, Women Books with this one, and in the Fall of 2012 she stepped up as one of our sponsors! Did you know that YouTube is the second biggest search engine on the Internet? While the debate rages on about the impact of book trailers on sales, [...]
When to Hire a Freelance Editor
So you’ve finished a book, and now you’re ready to take it to market—or are you? The publishing world is evolving so quickly that it’s not always easy to know where to start. I know excellent writers who are finding it difficult to secure representation in today’s publishing environment. The alternative may be to self-publish, [...]
Media Ready Media Savvy by Alison Hill
Most writers feel that our work is to create the best book we can, and then we’re done, well, besides getting an agent or a publisher. But the success of that huge journey to write our best book is tied to your efforts in capturing the words and messages about your book that will create [...]
Authors, Are You Ready – Media Ready?
Authors, are you ready – Media Ready? Are you ready to answer questions? From fellow writers. Friends. Bloggers. Book reviewers. Radio interviewers. TV hosts. Questions like: ‘Who are you?’ ‘What’s your book about?’ ‘Why should I fork out twenty bucks to read your work?’ These are tough yet realistic questions every author must answer, and [...]
The A303 – A Storyteller’s Road: On Finding Landscapes for your Characters
There are two ways to drive from the South-East of England to the South-West. One is the M5 motorway; six lanes, wide visibility, smooth going. The other is the narrow, secretive A303. The A303 is the old road. The storytellers’ road. For most of its length it is a slender dual carriageway. It rolls on [...]
Late Nights and Inky Fingers: the Daily Life of a Book Editor
Whenever someone asks that most common of “small talk” questions: “What do you do?” and I answer, “I’m a book editor,” I almost always find myself having to correct the notion that editing is a glamorous job. Fascinating—yes; Absorbing—certainly. But glamorous—rarely (unless one happens to be a fashion magazine editor in New York). Most of [...]
