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Cleaning up “Speaker Pollution”: Guest Post from Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller

Today’s guest post comes from Bruce Miller, fellow ASJA member and campaigner for better listening from better speaking by cleaning up “Speaker Pollution.”

Bruce provides editing, one-on-one consultation and training in spoken-word audio production—essential for authors who need some help making their verbal presentations the best they can be.

For more information about Bruce, visit his sites: SpeakerEdit.com and WriterInfo.tk.

Cleaning up “Speaker Pollution”

Even before I knew...

Weekend Writing Prompt for 1.30.16

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 1.27.16

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The Indie Writer and Bread-and-Butter Jobs: Guest Post from Robin Baum

Robin Baum

This is the thirdin a series of guest posts from Robin Baum, who lefta successful career as a media relations manager for STERIS Corporation to become anindependent writing, editing and voiceover professional.

Today’s post is about those bread-and-butter jobs that help avert cash-flow crisis—a common problem for indie writers.

Click on the links for Part One and Part Two, and visit Robin’sLinkedIn page and Better Business Bureau listingfor more information about her and her service...

Weekend Writing Prompt for 1.23.16

In a creative rut? Looking for some writing inspiration to jump-start the process?
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Tuesday’s Tips: Strengthening Your Writer Platform—Part 2

Using Your Brand Identity to Attract Readers

In Part 1 of Strengthening Your Writer Platform, I researched how to identify my niche and define my brand.

Step two, according to book marketing experts, is to use that information to attract readers—always a good goal, whether you have one book out there or half a dozen!

Be a brighter “literary light”

An interesting term I came across was “Lighthouse Author Brand.” According to Jonathan Gunson in his post, How To Attract Readers By Creating A ‘L...

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 1.13.16

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Tuesday’s Tips: Strengthening Your Writer Platform—Part 1

Niches and Branding

As one of my goals for 2016 (click here for “Setting My Marketing Goals for 2016”), I am working on strengthening my platform, which includes identifying my niche and definingmy brand.

Sounds very “successful author-ish” but what exactly does it mean, especially for me whose primary focus is on fiction?

I turned to a couple of sources to find out exactly how to identify what my niche is and what I needed to do to build my brand.

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Tuesday’s Tips: Strengthening Your Writer Platform

Part 1: Niches and Branding

As one of my goals for 2016 (click here for “Setting My Marketing Goals for 2016”), I am working on strengthening my platform, which includes identifying my niche and building my brand.

Sounds very “successful author-ish” but what exactly does it mean, especially for me whose primary focus is on fiction?

I turned to a couple of sources to find out exactly how to identify what my niche is and what I needed to do to build my brand.

Knowing my niche

In Create Your Wri...

Setting My Marketing Goals for 2016

Every December, I focus on setting marketinggoals for the coming year.

In 2014, it was time for a major site overhaul so I combined my blogs and two sites into one WordPress multi-site.

(Okay, technically I didn’t do it. It was done by Amy Masson of Sumy Designs LLC, who still continuesto handle anything that is beyond my capabilities!)

This pastyear, my marketing goal was to strengthen my author platform, all the more important since my book, TRAVELING LEFT OF CENTER AND OTHER STORIES, had c...