Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘marketing fiction’ Category

Writing on the road…goals and ambitions for 2016

Posted in Choosing the writing life, Fiction, indie publishing, location free living, marketing fiction, middle grade fiction, romance writing, series writing, simply writing, Time to write, writing fiction, writing life, Writing romantic fiction, tagged , , , , , , on January 8, 2016| 2 Comments »

image

Every new year brings good intentions and great ambitions. This year, it’s eight novels, equalling 480,000 words, with the grand title of Project Romance: Around Australia in 8 Romances.

With such an ambitious project, I’ve invested in a few tools to help me. One is Joel Friedlander’s Book Planner which will help keep my book publishing schedule on track. The other is Joanna Penn’s Creative Freedom Course,

You can follow my progress and learn about my fun with Book Planner and Creative Freedom over at http://www.melhammomd.com. If you subscribe to my email list you will receive a weekly email with my tips and lessons learned as I try to meet my self-imposed challenge for 2016.

Here at Growing Up Writing we’ll be focusing on marketing, both my adult books, and our Cracker & Gilly series, as well as leaning the processes of creating audible books.

Oh, and I’ve just subscribed to Jason Kong’s newsletter, Storyrally, an online Marketing For Fiction Writers forum.

See you on the road.

Read Full Post »

Book Tour Week 5 – Cracker

Posted in author pics, book tours, Books, indie publishing, marketing fiction, middle grade fiction, writing life, tagged , , , on December 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »

image

Read Full Post »

The Good, Bad and Damned Good Fun of Book Tours

Posted in book tours, Choosing the writing life, indie publishing, marketing fiction, middle grade fiction, Stories, writing life, tagged , , , , on December 18, 2015| 1 Comment »

image

  1. Today, I had someone special to share a selfie with, the owner of Coffee Club, Kotara, who also happens to be my favourite niece
  2. I chatted with Coffee Club patrons about all sorts of things that reminded this writer there’s a world of stories out there to source
  3. I people watched and, being only a week till Christmas, there sure was plenty to watch…since when did store shopping bags get so fancy?
  4. The very old and very young still share a cuppa together
  5. People still give books as gifts
  6. it’s easier to say what my books are about with practice
  7. I need to get my next novel finished
  8. Kids still read
  9. Kids write
  10. The new Star Wars movie rocks (so my daughters tell me)
  11. My graphic artist is a whizz because people stopped because of his cover design
  12. i don’t look like my author pic…big mistake
  13. Never play the matching game with a six year old and expect to win…if she doesn’t beat you honestly, she’ll beguile you with her smile
  14. Make sure you have a paddock and horses to escape to when the day is done…our horse was chest high in the dam munching on water-lilies when we got home and there’s no better reminder as to why I’m a country girl at heart (and in this heat, it was tempting to join the horse in his play)
  15. Book tours remind us of our humanity…we may sell more books online but we don’t get near as much tactile pleasure out of the experience.

Thank you to Naomi, Shane and the Coffee Club gang for hosting our book signing. Your hospitality, generosity and love are much appreciated by me and my entourage (and the burger was great:))

Read Full Post »

Coffee, cake and a good book, anyone?

Posted in book tours, indie publishing, marketing fiction, social media, writing life, tagged , , , , on December 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »

image

Book Tour: Week 3

We’re off again, this time to the Coffee Club, Kotara, in Newcastle to sign and sell a swag of books…or at least drink copious amounts of Nomi’s coffee trying.

And, as we did in Coffs Harbour, we will try to tweet our day (maybe this time it might even work).

Read Full Post »

On Tour – join us tomorrow at our book stall

Posted in author signings, Book stalls, book tours, indie publishing, marketing books, marketing fiction, middle grade fiction, writing life, tagged , , , on December 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »

image

Read Full Post »

Instant Bestseller?? Count me in…

Posted in Author platforms, Choosing the writing life, marketing books, marketing fiction, tagged , , , on February 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »

I first came across Tim Grahl with his marketing book, Your First Thousand Copies: the Step-by-Step Guide To Marketing Your Book’.

image

I followed him when he set himself a goal to sell 10,000 copies of his book in a year – The 10k Experiment – which he did (almost).

Now, he has an online training course, Instant Bestseller (visit http://www.outthink.com).

image

I’ve been following Grahl’s blog for so long you think I would have taken some of his advice by now but…err…okay, I admit it, there may be a reason or three why I’m yet to crack the Bestseller list, or any list for that matter, and it’s called Marketing, or in my case, lack thereof. It seems my books aren’t going to sell themselves, at least sell enough of themselves to get on anyone’s list.

So I’m gunna do the course that promises to tell me how to sell my books.

But the question is which one…

This one?

imageOr or this one?

image

Anyone want to join me? Or you can just follow my blog as I set myself the goal selling some books.

Read Full Post »

The Time To Write

Posted in Books, Choosing the writing life, How to write, indie publishing, marketing fiction, middle grade fiction, Reading, Stories, Time to write, Writing, writing inspiration, writing life, tagged , , , , , on December 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »

 find something worth reading

do something worth writing

creating something worth selling

image School’s out and it’s time to get back to the world of writing – do I hear you groan brother dear – with books to read, books to write, books to publish and books to market… image image image image image image

Read Full Post »

The benefits of publishing a book series

Posted in book publishing, Books, collaboration, ebooks, Fiction, indie publishing, marketing books, marketing fiction, middle grade fiction, print books, series writing, Writing, writing life, tagged , , , , on September 26, 2014| 1 Comment »

image The first book in our Cracker & Gilly Mystery series arrived yesterday (Book 2 has been out for awhile but that’s another story) and I suddenly realized the potential of  publishing and marketing a series.

image And, not in any particular order, here they are:

1. We already have a readership

2. We already have a marketing strategy

3. Two books look better than one

4. We can now discount one book in the hope of interesting new readers in our series

5. Writing a book is tough…writing two books shows we’re serious 5. There are more marketing angles with two books

6. There is increased anticipation for Book 3

7. With more books we can sell boxed sets 8. Our books look good between bookends (okay, this one is a gloat:))

Read Full Post »

writing, publishing and marketing middle grade mystery series

Posted in Books, Fiction, indie publishing, marketing fiction, middle grade fiction, series writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 21, 2014| 2 Comments »

Finally…

It’s taken six months but I can finally announce the publication of Book 1 of our middle grade Cracker and Gilly Mystery series…FORBIDDEN…it’s a long story and an even longer learning curve (a story I’m saving for another post)…both Book 1, Forbidden, and Book 2, Dirt Busters, are now available in both print and ebook from Amazon and other retailers…

Forbidden web cover…and if you’re curious what I’m up to during the holiday break, I’m preparing Book 3, Merinda’s Gold, for publication…all good fun…I think…

Read Full Post »

%d bloggers like this: