Welcome to the Webbiegrrl Blizzard
Welcome to Webbiegrrl's Writings. I'm an Indie Author and Indie Publisher writing Romantic Suspense under my real name (Sarah R. Yoffa) and using a pen name to publish Science Fiction Thrillers and Romantic SF. I run both "author lives" concurrently and work a day job. Therefore, this blog is only being publiced twice-weekly and sometimes I need a week off. The blog's definitely not going stagnant again but it's a slow-mover.
Quality, not quantity!
The blog publishing schedule is as follows. This post will always be on top. Just scroll down to read the newest entries in reverse order (bottom-up).
Each week I deliver marketing tips on being an Indie Author in the evolving industry of Publishing (or occasionally, on the writing activity in general; see my Nanowrimo tips from 2011). In addition to my prior work experiences, (and once I have some books out there, my own Indie Publishing knowledge) I'll draw on Madison Avenue standards of the last 50+ years (and hopefully looking forward over the next 10 or 20).
I did publish a Romantic Comedy / Jewish Inspirational book (Coming Home (Dicky's Story)) in 2011 and have been using it as a learning vehicle. Dicky's Story was a test for me to see if I could do this. Forex, I committed to a schedule, and met it (edited one chapter a week for 20 weeks) and then learned how to promote a book via Twitter, Goodreads and Facebook. I've learned a lot about which methods work and which don't--not to mention how giving it away totally free can succeed or fail. In summer of 2011, I ran a Freebie Friday feature here where I invited 3 Indie Authors (not me) to be featured each week so I could practice with a variety of books, genres, elements beyond merely analyzing which sites seemed to get the most click-throughs. I've made a study of this--and I share my lessons learned with you here.
This year, in 2012, I've been "translating" the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing (for Indie Authors) from widget-selling to book-selling and will be releasing an edited version of that series as an eBook right after I release my first SciFi novel (Conditioned Response). Shortly thereafter, I'll do the same with my latest series, Positioning (for Indie Authors), which just wrapped up at the end of April, 2012. Both eBooks will be priced at $2.99 (each) and then bundled together for a discounted price of $4.99. My new series on The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding (for Indie Authors) will begin in May 14, 2012 and run for approximately six months (22 weeks with a few weeks off).
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If you wanted to find something specific here, just use the tag cloud in the right-side column to search posts by category or browse the archive to see what posts you might've missed.
Regarding Comments:
I want to hear from you so feel free to leave me comments on any post. Comments are not moderated for the first week. Posts that are a week or more old will need to be moderated (you'll have to wait for me to approve your comment before it will appear on the blog). You still need to log in using your Google ID or OpenID to speak to me. Comments are spam-filtered so don't bleed your links on me.
Thanks for stopping by! See you soon, I hope.
The blog publishing schedule is as follows. This post will always be on top. Just scroll down to read the newest entries in reverse order (bottom-up).
Monday Marketing Marketing tips, trends, techniques from my years as a web developer and for the book-selling industry in particular.If you'd like, you can subscribe to this blog on your Kindle, it's free for the first 14 days and then only 99c a month thereafter (Amazon sets the price, not me). Here's what you'll get.
Tuesday Tips Tips and tricks for the "how-to" of writing & editing, at least the way I do it, as well as reviews and dicussions of tools (or eToys) I find interesting.
Weekend Could be anything or nothing. When I get close to a novel release date, it'll be nothing as I'm completely focused on getting the next book out. Tune into @webbiegrrl's stream on Twitter to see what's up for this weekend. I enjoy snippeting free samples so you just never know!
Each week I deliver marketing tips on being an Indie Author in the evolving industry of Publishing (or occasionally, on the writing activity in general; see my Nanowrimo tips from 2011). In addition to my prior work experiences, (and once I have some books out there, my own Indie Publishing knowledge) I'll draw on Madison Avenue standards of the last 50+ years (and hopefully looking forward over the next 10 or 20).
I did publish a Romantic Comedy / Jewish Inspirational book (Coming Home (Dicky's Story)) in 2011 and have been using it as a learning vehicle. Dicky's Story was a test for me to see if I could do this. Forex, I committed to a schedule, and met it (edited one chapter a week for 20 weeks) and then learned how to promote a book via Twitter, Goodreads and Facebook. I've learned a lot about which methods work and which don't--not to mention how giving it away totally free can succeed or fail. In summer of 2011, I ran a Freebie Friday feature here where I invited 3 Indie Authors (not me) to be featured each week so I could practice with a variety of books, genres, elements beyond merely analyzing which sites seemed to get the most click-throughs. I've made a study of this--and I share my lessons learned with you here.
This year, in 2012, I've been "translating" the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing (for Indie Authors) from widget-selling to book-selling and will be releasing an edited version of that series as an eBook right after I release my first SciFi novel (Conditioned Response). Shortly thereafter, I'll do the same with my latest series, Positioning (for Indie Authors), which just wrapped up at the end of April, 2012. Both eBooks will be priced at $2.99 (each) and then bundled together for a discounted price of $4.99. My new series on The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding (for Indie Authors) will begin in May 14, 2012 and run for approximately six months (22 weeks with a few weeks off).
Become a fan of Webbiegrrl on Facebook to get additional status updates that are not posted on this blog. Click the Webbiegrrl Legs. You know you wanna!You can also follow
If you wanted to find something specific here, just use the tag cloud in the right-side column to search posts by category or browse the archive to see what posts you might've missed.
Regarding Comments:
I want to hear from you so feel free to leave me comments on any post. Comments are not moderated for the first week. Posts that are a week or more old will need to be moderated (you'll have to wait for me to approve your comment before it will appear on the blog). You still need to log in using your Google ID or OpenID to speak to me. Comments are spam-filtered so don't bleed your links on me.
Thanks for stopping by! See you soon, I hope.
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