Twitter 101

People use Twitter for fun, quick communication, to network and to let people know about their business or product. Apparently there are approximately 175 million users of Twitter but many of these accounts don’t actually follow anyone (56 million). I guess that still leaves you will nearly 120 million potential readers, but how do you [...]

Outside the square book marketing

Erase the notion that bookshops are the place to sell books and you could be on your way up the New York Times bestseller’s list. It’s a nice dream to walk into a bookshop and see a whole shelf full of your books, but mostly it’s an unrealistic illusion. Bookstores take such a big cut [...]

Late June/Early July book giveaways & market opportunity

Giveaways I love hops! It’s a chance to win so many books. Go to I Am A Reader, Not A Writer to see all the blogs participating in the Midsummer’s Eve Hop. Then hop through the blogs, enter to win, and cross your fingers. Ends June 24th, so hurry! YA Writer, Valerie Kemp is giving away THE [...]

A day in the working life of a book marketing publicist

Donna Munro is a marketing publicist for a small book publisher on the Gold Coast in Australia. This month, Donna is sharing her marketing and publishing savvy in her guest posts for Inky Fresh Press. Visit Donna’s personal blog to learn more. 9.00 am Arrive at work. Catch up with staff on the latest happenings. Check [...]

The Stand-out Press Release

If you want to get more publicity than a writer with the Oprah “O” tick of approval, then you need your press release to stand out. Journalists receive hundreds of press releases each week, so is it any wonder most end up as basketball shots into the trash? How to stand out? Simple – don’t [...]

Get an Agent & Start Eating, Part II

Be sure to read Part I of this series, a breakdown of the different types of publishing. In today’s post, I’m offering my advice on the best way to prepare for landing an agent. Advisors & Pontiffs Take a look around the writing section of any bookstore and there are hundreds of books on how [...]

Janel’s Writing Prompt & Our June Book Giveaway

The television newscasts and newspapers are a great source of inspiration. Recently one of those stories caught my attention. Someone had been setting fire to abandoned houses in a bad neighborhood. After a few dilapidated houses went up in flames the person set his sights on something else, the car of a person living in [...]

The cheap website – just blog it!

Writers need a website to showcase their talent. If they are published they’ll also need an online presence to sell books. The struggling writer, living week to week and barely buying a coffee, let alone funding a website, need not worry. The solution is a blog. Remember what blogs are all about – writing! The [...]

Get an Agent & Start Eating, Part I

So you’ve been writing for years now. You’ve got your collection short stories, poems, or even a novel. Maybe you were lucky enough to get some of your work published on a website and get paid for it. Everyone says you’re good enough to get published. The question is, why are you still starving as [...]

June Book Giveaways

My Bookish Ways has a few awesome books up for grabs: 5 copies of  UNHOLY GHOSTS  (Downside Ghosts #1) (S/F) by Stacia Kane to give away. Enter here by July 5th. Simon R. Green’s FOR HEAVEN’S EYES ONLY (Secret History Book 5) (S/F). Enter here by July 5th. NEVER KNEW ANOTHER (S/F) by J.M. McDermott. [...]

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