Reading Time: 3 minutes WordPress is the blogging software I always recommend. It is flexible, extendible, easy to use – and free. But there is more to it than writing a personal online journal. You can use it to build a website, promote your books – and build a community. Here are 10 ways to make the most of it.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes We’re all familiar with blog-to-book success stories. But what about blog-to-sitcom? Regular readers will remember Emily Benet. She won the 2010 Author Blog Award in the Published Author category, which was announced at the Publishing Talk tweetup at the London Book Fair. Her début book, Shop Girl Diaries, began as a weekly blog about working in her mum’s unusual chandelier shop.
Read MoreReading Time: 3 minutes 01 Why WordPress? Other blogging platforms are available – but WordPress is the one I always recommend: it is powerful,
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Blogging is a great way to raise your profile, connect with readers and encourage sales. But how do you get started? Science fiction author Keith Mansfield started on the road to blogging with a workshop his publisher sent him on – and he’s never looked back. Here he explains how he got started, how he’s benefited from blogging, and shares his top blogging tips.
Read MoreReading Time: 3 minutes The Author Blog Awards aim to highlight to readers the great content that you can find in author blogs and microblogs, reward those authors who engage with their readers online, and encourage other authors to do the same. Nominations are now open so please head over to www.authorblogawards.com to nominate your favourite author blog.
Read MoreReading Time: 3 minutes The main objection I get whenever I suggest someone starts a blog is: “how on earth will I find the
Read MoreReading Time: < 1 minute More on authors, branding and online marketing today, this time from a recent post by Seth Godin, who’s always worth
Read MoreReading Time: < 1 minute Following on from my previous comment that the author is the brand, here’s an extract from an interesting article by
Read MoreReading Time: 2 minutes Blog consultant Mark White has written a recent post on the benefits of blogging as a means of promoting books.
Read MoreReading Time: 3 minutes I spent a day earlier this week holed up in the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London for the second Blogs
Read MoreReading Time: 3 minutes A reprise of the Stephen Page argument this week, with the publication of Andrew Keen’s book The Cult of the
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