I’ve been passing out in the afternoons. Not getting tired, passing out. I can’t focus, can’t keep my eyes open, and have to lie down for 20 minutes to restart my brain. Add that to days where I can’t work to save my life and lie on a couch in a malaise, and I thought...
Marketing True Magics 9: Twitter Ad Copy So, last week was all about my “please be my follower” strategy on twitter (and if you aren’t my follower, I’m @erik_buchanan, and don’t you want to be my friend?). This week is all about getting folks to buy my book from...
(Sorry this one is a late. I was sick. I’ll be blogging about health next week.) Last week we talked about why you need an editor. And you do. Sometimes a publisher supplies the editor, sometimes you want a piece edited before it goes to the publisher, or to the...
All right, you caught me. I haven’t been doing much marketing of my books on Twitter yet. Which begs the question: Why not? The Marketing Process: Think, Feel, Do Marketing has three steps: I need to get you thinking about my book, which will lead to you feeling...
(Note from Erik: My blog posts have been too long. Since I’m talking about editing this week, it seems like a good time to start shortening them) Last week I talked about writers as Explorers or Engineers. I said that no matter which a writer was, when that writer...