by Kevin Tumlinson | Apr 2, 2018 | Author How-To & Mindset
The writing life can feel isolated, but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s talk about writing communities! There’s a myth about writers—that we’re all lonely, tortured souls who toil in isolation and obscurity. The popular conception of being an author is that...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Mar 29, 2018 | Announcements, Features & Walk-Thrus
REMEMBER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO? We were pretty excited to announce our new D2D Author Pages and D2D Book Tabs. And judging by all the tweets, Facebook posts, emails, and YouTube comments, you were pretty excited too! We’re not much for sitting around on our hands here...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Mar 27, 2018 | Author How-To & Mindset
There are a few mainstay bits of marketing wisdom that every author gets from day one. Email mailing lists are usually the number one prescribed marketing tip. A close number two, though, is “get as many reviews as you can.” There may be some debate as to whether...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Mar 15, 2018 | Announcements, Features & Walk-Thrus, Press Release
We spend a lot of our time thinking of new ways to help authors take things to the next level. Now we’re working on tackling the ultimate challenge: Author Discoverability There are a lot of ideas on our drawing board, and a lot of new tools in development. But...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Feb 28, 2018 | Author How-To & Mindset, Knowledge Base
The Worst and Best Ways to Launch Your Book – Part 2 In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the top five worst ways to handle your book launch. We just can’t leave this on a negative note, though. It would be wrong. So, in this post we’re diving into one possible...