by Caitlin Muir | Apr 30, 2013 | Blog Posts, Blogging Tips, How To, Platform Building Tips, Productivity, Website Tips, Writing Tips
A few weeks ago, I was depressed about the Author Media blog. Nothing seemed to be going right. Or right enough. You know how it goes – that awful artistic angst. It’s nothing you can put your finger on, but just a nagging feeling that you aren’t...
by Liz Higgs | Apr 23, 2013 | Blog Posts, Blogging Tips, Platform Building Tips, Productivity, Reviews, Website Tips, Writing Tips
Creating one new website was daunting enough. But two new sites, mere months apart? While I wrote two books and traveled constantly? Only a crazy person would attempt such a thing. I definitely qualify. Even so, Author Media made it happen. And they made the process...
by Thomas Umstattd | Apr 15, 2013 | Blog Posts, Productivity, Website Tips
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | Spotify | RSS | MoreConstant Contact used to be the most popular solution for author newsletters. But is it the best? Here are 7 reasons why I prefer Mail...
by Caitlin Muir | Apr 8, 2013 | Blog Posts, Productivity, Social Media Tips, Twitter, Viral Marketing
I don’t know anyone who grew up wanting to be a host on an infomercial but Twitter has turned many authors into a mutation of the Sham-WOW guy. That’s right. Sham-WOW. There’s a fine line between promoting your work and selling your brand (okay, and...
by Caitlin Muir | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog Posts, Productivity, Social Media Tips, Website Tips
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | Spotify | RSS | MoreDon’t waste your time online. As an author, you only have so much time and you can’t spend it all hunting down files,...
by Caitlin Muir | Mar 5, 2013 | Blog Posts, Platform Building Tips, Productivity, Social Media Tips, Twitter, Viral Marketing
Twitter isn’t going anywhere. The sad thing is, most authors are ignoring it. They can’t afford to. A few authors like CS Lakin and Mary DeMuth are doing an incredible job of using the network to connect with readers, industry leaders, and even publishers....
by Caitlin Muir | Sep 4, 2012 | Blog Posts, Blogging Tips, Productivity, Writing Tips
Is it just me, or does time seem to be at a premium these days? Even though we have exactly the same amount of time as Einstein, Aristotle, and Marie Curie, we just don’t seem to be as productive. In a perverse twist of fate, even though we have more technology...
by Nathan Exley | Aug 23, 2012 | Blog Posts, Blogging Tips, How To, Platform Building Tips, Productivity
One of the keys to blogging is consistency. The morale of your readers goes down the drain if they are uncertain about when your next post will be up. If they don’t have the security of predictability, they will pick up their stuff and desert you to find another...
by Adam Langley | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog Posts, Blogging Tips, Platform Building Tips, Productivity, Reviews, Technology
You never know when some idea or piece of information for your book will come to you. So like a diligent Girl or Boy Scout, a writer needs to always “BE PREPARED!” And if a writer is like a Scout, Evernote is your Swiss Army Knife –an invaluable tool you’ll find is...
by Ben Whiting | Jul 10, 2012 | Blog Posts, Platform Building Tips, Productivity, Social Media Tips
One of the common foes of productivity is pleasure–getting distracted by fun or fluff when we should be working. Facebook, Twitter, IM, text messages, phone calls, you know all the guilty parties. Ironically, this often happens because we either aren’t getting...
by Caitlin Muir | Jun 12, 2012 | Blog Posts, Facebook, How To, Platform Building Tips, Productivity, Social Media Tips
Did you know that every Facebook user has two email inboxes? If you have an author Timeline (think public page), you have three. These inboxes are separate from each other. Facebook has not allowed them to merge yet. Scary, isn’t it? You could have a whole inbox...
by Caitlin Muir | May 10, 2012 | Blog Posts, How To, Productivity, Social Media Tips, Twitter
Anyone can tweet. Twitter is not rocket science. It doesn’t take much to compose something relatively witty and send it out like a public text message complete with the appropriate author-related hashtag. But just like everything else these days, it’s...
by Katie Hornell | Mar 14, 2012 | Blog Posts, News, Productivity, Reviews, Technology
“The iPad is so ubiquitous, and so entwined in mainstream culture already, that it is hard to imagine a time without it.” – Tony Bradley, PC World Last week Apple presented a keynote on the soon to be released New iPad. For those of you writers who haven’t seen it or...
by Caitlin Muir | Mar 7, 2012 | Blog Posts, How To, Platform Building Tips, Productivity
It’s easy to trick ourselves that when we’re on our favorite social media site, we’re busy marketing our books. Chatting with your friends is not marketing your book (disable Facebook chat!). If you aren’t being busy on purpose, you’re...
by Caitlin Muir | Mar 5, 2012 | Blog Posts, How To, Platform Building Tips, Productivity, Website Tips
Monday morning. There are 130 emails waiting for you in your inbox. Typical. You can’t tell which ones are urgent and which ones are just a waste of digital memory. What are you going to do? Option A: Carefully read each and every one of them. Option B: Declare...
