Upcoming “Gutsy” Interviews and Webinars
As an author who likes to help other writers/authors/future authors, I’m interviewing some awesome experts through Google Hangouts and Webinars to help you understand the business.
UPCOMING GUTSY HANGOUTS AND WEBINARS
June 11th, 1- 3:30 pm Santa Barbara Writers Conference
I am speaking on Wednesday, June 11th about “The Author Entrepreneur” How to Market and Sell Your Books. Authors need to become entrepreneurs if they want to sell books. I shall explain how I got my book into Costco, how to create a brand, niche marketing and much more. Please join Marla Miller and me for a great session.
June 19th, 9 a.m. PST Gutsy Google Hangout with Angela Ackerman, successful author of The Emotional Thesaurus: A Writers’ Guide to Character Expression , and blogger at Writers Helping Writers.
Watch VIDEO and listen to our Interview on June 19th, 9 a.m., PST
Angela Ackerman started blogging and helping writers describe emotions in unique visual ways. This soon became so POPULAR, she and co-author Becca Puglisi wrote “The Emotional Thesaurus.”
She developed a BRAND through BLOGGING and we shall discuss:
1). How did you come up with the concept?
2). What were your original goals?
3). When did you realize you’d come up with something BIG?
4). How did you adapt to the changes?
5). What were your biggest challenges?
6). Have you always made marketing plans from the start?
7). What made you change your blog name to “Writers Helping Writers”? Branding?
8). What advice do you have for writers about blogging?
9). What are your future goals?
10). How many books do you have now? How are sales?
11). How do you promote your books?
12). Any suggestions to help authors sell more books?
Angela Ackerman is a writing coach and co-author of the #1 bestselling resource, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression as well as the bestselling pair, The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Attributes and The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Flaws. You can find her at Writers Helping Writers, a hub for all things description.

June 26th, 9 a.m. PST (California Angela Bole “Gutsy” Google Hangout with Angela Bole, Executive Director, #IBPA (Independent Book Publishers Association.)
We shall discuss: What Indie authors/publishers need to know about:
1). The benefits of joining IBPA,
2). Publishing University
3). Learning center for authors, indie publisher
4) #ibpa Book Awards (Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards)
My Gutsy Story® Anthology: True Stories of Love, Courage and Adventure From Around the World, has been named a 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Honoree Winner.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO ANGELA OUR HANGOUT
All Webinars are recorded LIVE and available on my site for download after the Webinar.

Metadata Made Easy:
Find the Best Keywords for Books, Blog Posts and Social Media.
July 11th, 9 a.m. PST, 12 p.m. EST
FIND OUT WHAT IT’S ABOUT IN VIDEO
CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT TODAY
Here’s what we shall cover:
You will learn:
1). What is Metadata?
2). How to select the right keywords for your book titles, description, categories, tags and even the text of your book 3). How to use both Amazon and Google’s Keyword Planner for search information
4). How to enhance blog posts and social media mentions like for Twitter and Google+ using the same process
Guest E-book and Metadata Expert Jason Matthews is a novelist, blogger, speaker and self-publishing coach working with writers around the world. His specialties include building author platform, selling at major retailers, social media, blogging and SEO. He founded a Facebook group with over 2,000 writers and hosts an Indie Authors series on Google Plus discussing current topics and interviewing top indies. He can be contacted through his websites: http://ebooksuccess4free.wordpress.com/ and http://your-own-free-website.com/
He teaches a great video course for writers who want to publish - https://www.udemy.com/how-to-make-market-and-sell-ebooks-all-for-free/
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