I want to share five lessons I learned about promotion when I became a published author. # 1 Promotion is about building relationships. If you have no way of capturing the readers, you meet you are making promotion harder for yourself. It’s like you are promoting to the wind. I always say start the mailing list before you tell anyone about your book. When you start to meet, readers ask them to join your mailing
Monthly Archives : January 2018
Yesterday I was chatting with a friend and she reminded me how long I’ve been in this literary business. I think sometimes people forget that I’ve been doing this for 20 years versus the three years I’ve been published. I decided I’m going to revisit my online history for Black History month. I will share with you how I did all of this in the last 20 years. 20 years online I’ve learned: How to
The last shutdown was the longest they ever had. I was nervous about my job and paying bills. I prayed and decided that I could do more with my time instead of worrying. Here’s a few tips to help you in this shutdown. Get some groceries – you don’t know how long the shutdown will be. Use this time to write. Instead of sitting around waiting – WRITE Work on your business – something you’ve
I completed my read through for my manuscript. I must say I truly enjoyed the story and look forward to improving it. My next step is the world building and adding more content before it’s ready to submit to an editor. I also need to find an editor who edits Science Fiction, so that should be an interesting hunt. I love the world building part because I get to create my own planet. My planet
I want to invite you to like my Facebook pages, so you can keep up with my content if you enjoy it. I have a page for SORMAG. This is where I will be posting most of the book promotion and writing info. For all the writers and readers I invite you to like this page. Starting next month, all promotions will head that way. https://www.facebook.com/SORMAG.FAN.PAGE/ I have my own page LaShaunda Hoffman – this
What is your promotion mindset? Do you believe in yourself. Join my promotion group – See Ya On The Net – https://www.facebook.com/groups/SYOTNWorkshop/ Are You Ready To Become A Social Butterfly? – Join The Social Butterfly Membership http://bit.ly/SBMCALL Contact me – lchwriter@gmail.com
Last week I read 250 pages. I was super proud of myself. I have a 150 more pages to go this week and then it’s time to work on the next draft. I found out that I liked going away to write. I stayed at the St. Louis Bread company this weekend and read. It wasn’t too loud and I was able to concentrate on my writing. Something I can’t do at home with the
For the last two years I’ve been teaching my clients to use 15 minutes to promote. I know it doesn’t seem like a lot of time, but its a great starting point if you having a hard time finding time to promote. Check out this video for more info on 15 minute promotion. Are You Ready To Become A Social Butterfly? – Join The Social Butterfly Membership http://bit.ly/SBMCALL
This month I’m working on my middle grade book. I printed it out and plan on doing a read through for this month. Yesterday at lunch I read 50 pages. I’m hoping the rest of the book reads as smoothly. I didn’t do much fiction writing for 2017, so I’m working on improving that for 2018. My word for this year is IMPLEMENT It’s all about getting things done. I have a plan and I
I’ve featured many interviews in SORMAG Digital over the last 17 years and I wanted to share a few mistakes that I’ve experienced and I hope you will take heed to these mistakes and make sure you don’t do them when you are invited to do an interview. Author Picture Issues No Picture Picture too Small Use an Advatar instead of real picture Not a good picture Solution: Invest in a good headshot – 300
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