For the past year, one of my many jobs has been serving as “book shepherd” (a paid step up from my usual “wingman” role) for Finish Strong and its author, Barbara Coombs Lee. A big and engrossing project!
Category: Projects
My role as a book shepherd
I’ve been working like crazy the past few months on two book launches, along with all my usual website, graphic design, marketing, and volunteer work. I’ll talk more about Book #2 when it’s closer to its launch date, but right now, Book #1, The Book of Beautiful Questions by my husband Warren Berger, is publishing… Continue reading My role as a book shepherd
How to find purpose and meaning without a job
A friend’s new blog profiles 6 women of various ages who have left corporate life and constructed their own jobs—and I’m one of those 6 women!
My new travel-writing gig
Read about my new travel writing gig at the new GETTING ON TRAVEL e-magazine.
Marilyn Johnson’s hit book “Lives in Ruins”
Congrats to my friend and client Marilyn Johnson on her recent book, Lives in Ruins (Harper), an Amazon Best Book of the Month, November 2014 and #1 bestseller in the Archaeology category on Amazon! She’s been getting wonderful reviews and the book is selling like hotcakes.
“I don’t have time to read a book”—The Slippery Social Media Slope {video}
What people do with their reading has changed greatly in a mere 4 years, due to the rise of the smartphone & various social media. Read a book? A twice-a-year luxury, for most. And people admit this blithely in the context of “being swamped.”
Launching A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION
March 2014 seemed so far off at one point but A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION finally publishes this week. Since it’s my husband’s book I had free rein to try out a number of new things (for me) re: website design, interactive images and links, videos, infographics, and social media platforms like Quora blogs, Slideshare, Pinterest, Spotify, CaféPress,… Continue reading Launching A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION
What if you had a way to double the amount of people who know about you and your product?
Here’s an article I wrote for The Marmaduke Writing Factory about the “Reader Species” infographic I recently made. Why should you care? Well, it increased traffic to this site by a lot*, so there’s something going on with these infographics! Read more
“Help,” Quoth the Author
A list of memorable quotes from my author-clients who would really rather not have anything to do with promoting their books, yet have very high expectations…
I made an ACX audiobook—now what do I do?
Another chapter in the self-publishing playbook. Now that you’ve gotten your book recorded by a pro, how do you go about finding the market for this high-priced new product? Don’t look to ACX and Audible for much help.
Some short cuts for the “too much info” feeling
Link roundups and website “resources” pages have proven to be two good ways of dealing with the avalanche of info dumped on us daily.
Did Amazon just make authors’ lives harder?
Most authors have been dutifully tending to their social media duties. But the launch of Amazon’s new Kindle social media feature @author might just be the straw that breaks the successful author’s back.
Making the most of your digital reach
Successful author Lee Child has put his love of writing short stories to good use: creating an original ebook that whets appetites for his full-length novel coming out a month later.