What Is an Author Street Team?

Check out this great article:  What Is an Author Street Team? 
http://blog.bibliocrunch.com/what-is-a-street-team/

If you want to create your street team to help you finish and promote your book, go here to download my FREE ebook, Book Marketing Genius.  It is a step-by-step guide to creating or growing your fan base. 

Stay up to date with this blog for more great tips and information.  Plus go here for my Facebook page, Writers' Secrets. 

Go here for my online group, Book Marketing and Financing. 

Here's to your success! 

Self-Publishing: The 9 Tasks That Must Go On Your Book Launch To-Do List | Self-Publishing Relief

The launch and marketing of your book begins BEFORE the book is completed and ready to go into the hands of your readers. 

For more about how you can build your street team, while you are still writing your book, go here to download my FREE ebook, Book Marketing Genius. 

Plus check out this post from Self-Publishing Relief on The 9 Tasks That Must Go On Your Book Launch To-Do List. 

See also:  this post on How to Become a Bestselling Author, from John Kremer. 

For  lots more useful information, see:  Book Marketing and Financing.  

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How Long It Took 40 Writers to Finish Their Famous Novels

From a weekend to 30 years, how long did it take the authors to complete some of the best-loved novels?

For more great stuff for writers and readers, go here for my Writers' Secrets page. 

And go here for lots of marketing and funding resources for writers and self-publishers:  Book Marketing and Financing.

Tips for the Lionhearted Writer: How to Honour Your Creativity

If you are like me (and I'm not assuming you are), if you keep your creativity locked in a cupboard and rarely let it out to play, you will find this useful.

Below are some great prompts from Lucy Flint's Lionhearted Writer blog. If you have read Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, you are familiar with the artist's date. It is just one way of treating yourself with kindness, and nurturing your creativity. Here are the tips:

• What are twenty things that you love doing? 
• What hobbies did you love as a kid? 
• What were your favorite toys as a kid? What did you just love playing with? Where did you most love to go?
• What did you love to do in art class? Music class? 
• Where do you like to explore?
• What kinds of activities or places seem to release something good in you?

Go here for How to Rescue Your Creativity.

Go here for more from the Lionhearted Writer blog. 

Self-Publishing Tips: How to Become a Bestselling Author

Check out this great article by John Kremer, in which he explains how ordinary people  became bestselling authors.  Go here to read it.  

Plus go here to download my FREE ebook, Book Marketing Genius, where you can read my interview with John Kremer.

For more great self-publishing tips, see Book Marketing and Financing.

Here's to your success!

11 Keys to Crowdfunding Success

This blog post by book marketing genius John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, lists 64 crowdfunding sites along with his 11 keys to crowfunding success.

Go here to read it now.

Plus go here to download my FREE ebook, Book Marketing Genius, where you can read my interview with John Kremer.

For more great crowdfunding tips, see Book Marketing and Financing.


Here's to your success!

How To Find Your Readers - How This Author Sold 20,000 books in 1 month!

Check out this “Hangout on Air” designed to help authors, especially self-published and indie authors, with marketing their books and improving their author platform. Authors struggle with various aspects of marketing and we are here to help! 

Bestselling author Cristin Harber sold 20,000 books in 1 month! 

For lots more great book marketing and financing tips, go here for Book Marketing and Financing.  

Plus check out my FREE ebook, Book Marketing Genius.