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Publishing Books For Children And Profitable School Visits With Tonya Ellis

The Creative Penn

In the intro, investment firm KKR will buy Simon & Schuster [ Publishing Perspectives ]; Subscriber Surge Giveaways [ Written Word Media ]; Key Book Publishing Paths [ Jane Friedman ]. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system.

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Author Platform Is Not a Requirement to Sell Your Novel or Children’s Book

Jane Friedman

Recently an article was published at Vox titled “Everyone’s a sellout now.” But specifically, for writers and book publishing, it spreads so many myths and misconceptions about the business of authorship that I’ll be undoing the damage for years. (My The agent or publisher has to have genuine enthusiasm for the story or writing itself.

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Lessons Learned from 12 Years as an Author Entrepreneur

The Creative Penn

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. I've done many interviews on it (linked here), and I have reams of more personal writing in my journals and also in various draft Scrivener projects.

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Lessons Learned And Tips From Pilgrimage, My First Kickstarter Campaign

The Creative Penn

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. You can now get all of these on my Bundle page on CreativePennBooks.com in ebook and paperback, and I'm adding audio bundles as well.

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The Craft And Business Of Writing Non-Fiction Books With Stephanie Chandler

The Creative Penn

Show Notes Changes in publishing and marketing for nonfiction authors over time and what still works How to stand out and build your community Content marketing and long-term marketing strategies Deciding what nonfiction book to write—should you stay in your lane? I sent proposals to three publishers, and Wiley gave me a book deal.

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19 Strategies That’ll Help You Become an Influencer

Neil Patel

Interest in influencer marketing has skyrocketed 90x since 2013. What’s more: research shows they generate double the sales of paid ads and with a 37% higher customer retention rate. Digital ad spend grew 18% in February 2021 compared to a year prior. TV ad spend declined nearly 27% over the same period.

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Looking to 2013: A Commitment to Blogging Smarter … With a Little Help

ProBlogger

If there’s one resolution I could encourage any blogger to make for 2013, it’s to work smarter. Over the last few months, we’ve published a few guides to outsourcing different functions on your site. designing newsletters, ads and other communications like infographics that you’re hoping will go viral.