This week one of my friends posted an interesting article from Sarah McIntyre about crediting illustrators. Illustrators are often overlooked
by authors and award judges when it comes to promotion. It is time that we
remembered that a great picture book has an author and an illustrator working
in collaboration and so they both should be equally credited when it comes to
promotion. Sarah came up with the #picturesmeanbusiness campaign.
Darcy Pattison has a guest post on Jane Friedman’s blog
about the promotion of children’s books and how she is using Pinterest as an
experiment because children’s books are about the visual.
Anne R Allen has a great resource blog for writers. This
week she writes about the care and feeding of THE MUSE for writers. There is
lots of great advice in here.
Going to conferences can inspire you to new projects. Joanna
Penn talks about attending the ThrillerFest conference and what she learned there. This is a really fascinating article as Joanna is exploring the hybrid
author position here. She also has a great interview with a publishing futurist…what might be around the corner and coming soon to an author near you...
Following along on this theme is Porter’s think piece - finding and building fans of books is the most important thing an author can do
... here he reports on some big thinkers in the publishing game on this kind of
marketing.
Jane Friedman has been getting serious of late with email
marketing. She has written two excellent blog posts on email newsletters for authors and how to improve the newsletter to make it relevant. I’m interested
in exploring this from a children’s writer point of view. Who do we send
newsletters to...
I don’t subscribe to many newsletters but one I do and try
to read frequently is Larry Brooks. His Storyfix website is great. His
newsletters are direct and punchy on the craft of writing. Larry recently had a
melt down moment which is worth reading. Writers you need to study your
craft... figure out some stuff then apply it. If you write then you should read this.
Four important questions that agents ask writers in the pitch session... and yes you should be able to answer them...
In the Craft section,
Goals Conflict Stakes- Janice Hardy (Bookmark)
Copyediting –it’s not rocket surgery- The Book Designer (Bookmark)
Fishing out your manuscript hook- Kate Moretti (Bookmark)
How to write a synopsis- sorta- Ava Jae (Bookmark)
4 Revision Goals- Darcy Pattison (Bookmark!)
In the Marketing section,
Does it pay to do a print book- Molly Greene
The unexpected effect of perma free- M Louisa Locke-
Bookmark
Cleaning up your Amazon Central Book Page- Elizabeth S Craig
Website of The Week
Every now and then you come across a web comic that exactly
illustrates the writing life. Chances are you have seen an Inkygirl comic. So
you really need to check out her awesome website where she has other great helpful tips. Inkygirl is also promoting the #picturesmeanbusiness campaign to
recognise picture book illustrators on metadata and awards.
To Finish,
Mark Coker of Smashwords recently put up his Slideshare deck
... 6 hours of concentrated workshopping on publishing ebooks. You don’t have
to wade through all of it. Just look at the transcript and scroll down to
the section that interests you. This is like a Master class in eBook marketing.
Maureen
@craicer
Pics From the fabulous Inkygirl
4 comments:
I am definitely switching to best-selling novels from poetry after reading this...
That is so funny…Maureen S I just wish i could write poetry … never mind the best selling novels…
Thanks much for the shout out for my blog! That fabulous piece about the care and feeding of your muse was written by my blog partner, NYT million-seller Ruth Harris.
Fantastic links here!!
What also can't be overlooked here is that, with the help of the education system - indoctrination system - so many people have been conditioned to see the world in a certain way.
Robert Martin
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