Learning how to pitch yourself is one of the most IMPORTANT skills you can cultivate as a writer. I might even go as far as to say it’s THE most important skill. Whether you’re un-agented, agented, signed, unsigned, indie or traditionally published with an impressive backlist under your belt….
Disclaimer: Much like Tyrion Lannister, today’s Marketing Monday post will be short and very blunt.
(Prepare to get kingslapped with knowledge, interwebs!)
In today’s saturated online landscape, there is only ONE thing that will put you head and shoulders above your competition: Content.
Seriously, you guys–clear, reliable, quality CONTENT.
That’s it. That’s the secret. Continual…
Thank you to all who participated in the fourth and FINAL challenge of Project REUTSway 2013!
With your help, we smashed…destroyed…completely decimated the 50k word count for NaNoWriMo, clocking in at just under 700,000 words. Ooh-da-lally! (Not bad for a mere 30 days of work, right? Even less, when you cut out…
In conjunction with Black Friday, and the holiday season, we’ve begun our first Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday sale! Pre-order Echoes of Balance by Cally Ryanne TODAY, and have it electronically or physically on your doorstep for its December 17th release. Take the worry and wait out of your equation,…
Think THIS.
NOT this.
I feel like I’ve had this conversation with my PR/marketing clients (and myself) at least a million times:
Me: “You need a new author photo.”
Author: “Why? The one I’ve been using is a perfectly good photo of me.”
Me: “Yes, it’s a great photo of you. But it’s a posed shot taken…
Challenge #4: Shifty Stories to Read in the Dark
Dates: 11/24 – 12/2
Submission Deadline: 11/29 at 11:59pm EST – *due to the US Thanksgiving holiday, the usual submission window has been extended!*
Category: YA / NA
Story Basis: Any “classic” fairy tale (Grimm Brothers, Hans Christen Andersen, Disney, etc.) – you can…
Thank you to all who participated in the third challenge of Project REUTSway 2013!
With your help, we’ve gotten to the point where we don’t even want to TELL people what our collective word count is, because we’re making the other NaNoWrimo groups look bad. (Psst, it’s well over 700,000 by…
What is spiREUTS, you ask? Our fantastic Twitter followers dubbed the creation of writer/REUTS related cocktails as spiREUTS, an insanely clever play on the REUTS name and “spirits”. Birthed from this moniker, REUTS author Drew Hayes took it upon himself to create four author inspired cocktails (which he had the…
Being a vampire novelist myself, I tend to gravitate towards those types of stories in my reading free time. About a year ago I was asked to put together my top five most innovative vampire novels. I recently stumbled upon that post, and have decided to syndicate it to…
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the inner-workings of the publicity business, 90% of the time new authors are put in charge of writing their own press releases.
Even if you do eventually end up reaching the level of success where you can hire someone to do…