One Type of Marketing, Kickstarter
The one area that authors seem to freeze over is marketing. It’s not a natural behavior. If done well it involves putting self last, not …
Logo and Slogan Production
Do you have a logo and slogan? I saw no need for them until I began to learn how to participate in zooming. I have …
A New Publisher for Arctic Dinosaurs of Alaska
Arctic Dinosaurs of Alaska is about to come to life. After a three year wait at UA Press and an attempt at my prehistoric fiction …
Ever reach that point where you feel satisfied?
Bonnye Matthews, prolific Alaskan author, writes prehistoric fiction. According to Grace Cavalieri, she is America’s pre-eminent author of prehistoric fiction. According to George F. Steiner, …
Zamimolo’s Surprise
Frequently overlooked, my novel, Zamimolo’s Story, 50,000 BC, inherited the middle child syndrome of virtual invisibility. 2018 changed all that! Zamimolo’s Story counted in the …
GIVEAWAY!
To celebrate my novella, Courage, 30,000 BC, winning First Place for YA Fiction from the National Federation of Press Women this year, I’m giving away …
A Win – for Courage, 30,000 BC
Courage, 30,000 BC won first place for YA Fiction at the National Federation of Press Women’s annual communication competition. The presentation will be made in September …
Selling Goats
After the holidays I returned to work with vigor. By late evening, I was a bit on the fatigued side, well more than a bit. …
Does anyone have as much fun as I do being an author?
The bags and tees arrived. Camels Can’t Carve? It’s all about the 250,000-year-old mammoth pelvis bone, where a green-carving of a gomphothere (4-tusked elephant) and …
FOILING PROMOTION PROFITEERING
I’ve seen several articles recently on the potential for people to profit on sales of promotional materials, bypassing the Publisher and Author. These may come …
Freedom, 250,000 BC AudibleBook GIVEAWAY
Audio book for Freedom, 250,000 BC is just out on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. I’m doing a GIVEAWAY of codes to receive a free copy …
GOODREADS GIVEAWAY
Starting May 11 until May 31, How to Market Books to Libraries and Readers in the Digital Age: Constructing Major Email Platform Planks will be …
Truckdriver and Audible Books
Back in 2012 when my first book came out, a truck-driver came over to my table and asked if I had audible books. I told …
How To Market Books to Libraries and Readers in the Digital Age
It’s out! It’s little; it’s cute; and with great effort it actually works!
Serendipity!
Sometimes serendipity occurs. Today was my day. An article from National Geographic came out announcing human presence in the Americas back to 130,000 years ago! …
Dioramas a Hit!
I attended the IN PRINT event at the Anchorage Museum April 8, 2017. There were nine of us authors at the event. I carried my …
GOODREADS GIVEAWAY
The GOODREADS GIVEAWAY has been approved. The GIVEAWAY for Courage, 30,000 BC: The Boqueirao Refuge at Pedra Furada begins at 12 am PT March 14 …
Listening to Library Websites: Surprises
Courtesy Wikimedia, license CCA-SA 4.0. In preparing my marketing library email list platform, I am seeing library website after website, and they are communicating to …
Listening to Library Websites: the Overall Design
In preparing my marketing library email list platform, I am seeing library website after website, and they are communicating to me. It makes me reflect …
Listening to Library Websites: the Contact Us Page
(Courtesy, Gilles San Martin CC by-SA 2.0, Pediculus humanua capitis) In preparing my marketing library email list platform, I am seeing library website after website, and …
Listening to Library Websites: the Home Page
Courtesy Gilles San Martin, CC by SA 2.0, Pediculus humanus capitis In preparing my marketing library email list platform, I am seeing library website after website …
Audio Book on Freedom, 250,000 BC is Emerging
I just heard the first 15 minutes of Freedom, 250,000 BC as it will be produced in audio book form. I had to shut …
e-book signings, a new virtual reality
Are you an e-book reader who wishes you could have e-book signings? Well, you can now! What fun! Go to www.authorgraph.com to find the site …
