Okay, maybe Oprah won’t welcome you with open arms onto the pages of her magazine, but you’ll still want endorsements from influencers before your book hits the shelves. BookBub and others have shown book descriptions featuring blurbs by reputable authors receive 30% higher click rates on selling platforms, so it’s a definite plus, particularly for…
Author: Maggie Smith
Help Friends Review Your Book
The woman in your choir read your debut and identified with the main character’s challenges. Your child’s homeroom teacher raved about your ending, said it made her cry. Your aunt brags to all her friends about her talented niece, the novelist. Problem is, not one of them has ever written a review and posted it…
Why Writers Belong on Instagram
I can read your mind. Oh, no, not another social media platform I have to learn. Spare me. Hold that thought while I share a few facts from the Pew Research Center. There are 500,000,000 users of Instagram (IG). That’s not five million. FIVE HUNDRED MILLION. And 300,000,000 of those are active users, meaning they…
3 Reasons your “Writer’s Block” may not be about the writing itself
You recognize the feeling, right? The moment when you know you should be writing, but you aren’t writing and it’s making you crazy and you need to get past it but you’re not sure how. The pen’s in your hand but the paper in front of you has nothing on it. You’re sitting in front…