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Catching the Reader’s Eye: HTML Email

Posted on June 7, 2012

When you’re ready to publish and are thinking about the free and easy-to-access methods of promoting yourself, a few options spring to mind: social media sites, your blog, and, of course, email.

In a strange way, however, email is the most cumbersome of the three. Out-of-the-box, the medium can be plain and un-compelling. Most standard email programs lack anything but basic print formatting and almost nothing in the way of graphic control or enhanced technologies. And without that, you’re sending your recipients the equivalent of a very forgettable piece of junk mail.

The solution is HTML email, a hybrid of web-based technologies and standard email services that allows you to format print and graphics to make compelling emails that encourage (and enable) people to act.

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Posted in: Helpful Software & Sites, Tips for eAuthors | Tagged: email, epublishing, html email, marketing, promotion, self-publishing, writing

Goodreads Giveaway: Some more bits and pieces

Posted on April 18, 2012

This is a micro-post update on my Goodreads Giveaway. Some things I’ve gleaned in the last few days:

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Posted in: Tips for eAuthors | Tagged: ebook, free, giveaway, goodreads, one bad twelve, promotion, writers, writing

Using your Goodreads Giveaway for Maximum Advantage

Posted on April 16, 2012

This past Friday I wrapped up my first Goodreads Giveaway and thought I’d share some of the tips, tricks, and results I learned from doing it.

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Posted in: Tips for eAuthors | Tagged: author, ebook, giveaway, goodreads, Kindle, promotion, publishing, self-publishing, writing

Kindleboards: The Best Resource Around

Posted on March 7, 2012

For many indie authors (and Kindle aficionados), this post will fall into the “water is wet” category of late-breaking news, but I’ve found it’s foolish to make assumptions about what others know and don’t, especially when it comes to the rapidly-changing face of digital publishing and the internet.

The Best Resource Out There
Kindleboards (www.kindleboards.com) is a site that has to be at the top of every digital self-publisher’s bookmarks list. It is a supremely helpful site that, in digital publishing terms, has been around since the Stone Age (about 3 years) providing a forum space for budding digital authors, Kindle book lovers, and geek and gadget people in general.

The forum section boasts around 55,000 registered users and several thousand are online at any one time. A subset of those are writers (detailed below), but many more thousands are readers interested in one thing: digital books.

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Posted in: Helpful Software & Sites, Tips for eAuthors | Tagged: Amanda Hocking, amazon, author, David Dalglish, Deborah Geary, ebook, Kindle, Kindleboards, promotion, publishing, self-publishing, writers, Writers' Cafe, writing

Feeling Free

Posted on March 5, 2012

If I had any doubts about the power of promotion, they were laid to rest this past weekend.

My crime fiction short story collection Three Shorts has been free since about the first week of February. In a month, it had been downloaded a respectable–if unspectacular–500 times. I had heard of other indie authors garnering thousands of downloads, but I’m a relatively unknown new-comer and I was more than happy to see hundreds of downloads fueled by little more than a change in price…I didn’t do any specific promotion beyond Twitter, Facebook, and a blog post.

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Posted in: The Journey, Tips for eAuthors | Tagged: amazon, author, ebook, ereadernewstoday.com, free, Kindle, Pixel of Ink, promotion, self-publishing, Squidoo, writers, writing
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