Posts belonging to Category Promoting ebooks
Posted by Julie Ortolon on August 2, 2011
Since I wrote my original post on How to Create a Facebook Page, things have changed. So, here are the new instructions (written August 2011) for creating a Facebook Page. After the instructions, I’ll talk about why I created a second Page for my Pearl Island trilogy when I already had an Author Page. Step-By-Step [...]
Categories: Facebook, Promoting ebooks, social networking, Uncategorized, Website Design |
Tags: facebook, facebook pages, how to create a facebook fan page, how to promote ebooks | 
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on July 26, 2011
Are you one of the authors who has to be nudged, or maybe even pulled kicking and screaming, into doing self promotion? If so, you’re going to love this guest post from talented and prolific New York Times bestselling author of paranormal romance, Deborah Cooke. Is Promotion Your Priority? By Deborah Cooke (also writing as [...]
Categories: ebooks, Promoting ebooks, social networking, Uncategorized |
Tags: Claire Delacroix, Deborah Cooke, Dragon Diaries, Dragonfire series, paranormal romance, The Rogues of Ravenmuir | 9 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on July 8, 2011
As more and more established authors go indie, either by e-pubbing their backlist or taking new material straight to ebook, many of us wonder: What will be the agent’s role in this new publishing frontier? That conversation came up repeatedly during the recent RWA conference in NYC. Among the authors I spoke with, everyone agrees [...]
Categories: ebooks, Promoting ebooks, self publishing, The Journey, Uncategorized |
Tags: ebooks, epublishing a romance novel, indie authors working with a literary agent, self publishing an ebook | 14 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on July 5, 2011
This year’s Romance Writer of America conference was an amazing experience for me. I actually feel like I just came home from two separate conferences that happened to be going on at the same time in the same hotel. There was the official RWA conference with workshops, agent/editor appointments, and publisher parties. Then there was [...]
Categories: ebooks, Promoting ebooks, self publishing, The Journey, Uncategorized |
Tags: ebooks, epublishing a romance novel, romance writers of america, RWA Conference | 14 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on June 29, 2011
Okay, technically, it’s Wednesday since it’s after midnight. I’m writing on my iPad by the light of a single lamp since my roomies are asleep. I’m hoarse from talking all day in a bar filled hundreds of women writers and my feet ache from striding around New York in some killer high heels, but my [...]
Categories: ebooks, Promoting ebooks, self publishing, The Journey, Uncategorized |
Tags: ebooks, epublishing a romance novel, romance writers of america, RWA Conference | 16 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on June 21, 2011
As romance writers across the country get ready for RWA’s national conference in New York, many attendees are anxiously preparing for their ten-minute appointments with agents and editors. Some published authors who have been down that path are offering to help their unpublished sisters perfect those pitches, while others are wondering: Why are writers even [...]
Categories: ebooks, Promoting ebooks, The Journey |
Tags: ebook income, ebook income verses print book income, pitching to an agent, pitching to an editor, RWA, RWA conference 2011, self publishing, self publishing an ebook | 30 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on June 2, 2011
I’m excited to bring you this next guest for two reasons. One, I designed the covers for the five historical romance novels she recently converted to ebooks. And two, this has to be the most inventive promotion idea I’ve heard in a long time. So, without further ado, here’s Kelly McClymer. Julie, thank you for [...]
Categories: Blogging, ebooks, Promoting ebooks, self publishing, Uncategorized |
Tags: ebooks by Kelly McClymer, how to promote an ebook | 5 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on May 31, 2011
Help me welcome today’s guest, Marsha Canham, who’s here to talk to us about something she’s doing to help promote other authors, which in turn helps promote her. That’s an emerging trend I’m seeing with some of the authors who are having consistent success with ebooks. They cross promote with their friends. The challenge though, [...]
Categories: Blogging, ebooks, Promoting ebooks, self publishing, Uncategorized |
Tags: ebooks by Marsha Canham, how to promote an ebook | No Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on May 27, 2011
This will be the first in a series of interviews with authors who are doing some inventive things with ebook promotion that I think can help all of us search for creative ways to prosper in the brave new world of publishing. First up: Lori Devoti. Lori, give us a little history on your own [...]
Categories: Blogging, ebooks, Promoting ebooks, self publishing, Uncategorized |
Tags: ebooks by Lori Devoti, how to promote an ebook | 5 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on May 19, 2011
When this ebook revolution began, one of the big scary things for authors was the question: “But how will readers find my book when there’s no physical bookstore?” This fear was compounded by the fact that anyone out there could slap up an ebook. How would professional authors get their ebooks to stand out in [...]
Categories: ebooks, Promoting ebooks, self publishing, Uncategorized |
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