Writing blog

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Book Marketing Insights and Tips to kick off 2023!

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Ready to get book marketing savvy in the new year? Today’s episode of Charlotte Readers Podcast kicks off with insights from 7 members who’ve participated in the Weekly Writer Support Group.

In this podcast episode, we share our best tips and experience on what works in building author platform and selling books, how to gather reviews, and our most unique or enjoyable marketing events or tactics.

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How to Prevent your Author Instagram (or Bookstagram) from Being Hacked

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PSA of the day: If you haven’t turned on 2 factor authentication on your account, do it now. I put this off for ages, but in the last week I’ve seen 5+ authors and bookstagrammers with 5- 10,000 followers get hacked. And unfortunately, if your account is hacked (I don’t mean copied or cloned, but someone has gained access to it), then you as an author have little recourse.

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Two Women I Couldn't Admire More - WFWA Kidney Swap

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I’m in in awe of these two amazing women. Pamela Stockwell and Kelly Hartog.

They met through the online Zoom writing dates held by Women’s Fiction Writers Association.

They’ve never met in real life (at least not yet), but when Kelly needed a kidney to continue gifting us with her wonderful self, Pamela stepped up.

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The TufFish Show - Imposter Syndrome, my Early Writing Mistakes & Why the Rules are Not Always Helpful

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This podcast interview is a gift to my writer friends - and includes some topics I haven’t addressed before - Imposter syndrome, how to take something useful from rejection feedback, the biggest mistake I made early in my writing career. And why the writing rules are not always helpful.

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The Exit Strategy wins Book of the Year from IAN!

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Today, I found out that my debut won its 12th award - 2021 Book of the Year from the Independent Author Network (IAN) for Outstanding Women’s Fiction.

And this landed right when I was falling into the danger of imposter syndrome and self comparison, and needed a reminder to keep going.

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Interested in Smart Award-Winning Authors to Talk with Your Group?

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The Author Talk Network is a small group of award-winning, dedicated authors. We all love talking books, writing, the art of story, and so much more. So we decided to collaborate to make ourselves available to your book group, school, library, talk show, podcast, or other.

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The Exit Strategy wins National Indie Excellence Award - An Updated Take on Awards and Self-Doubt

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That first line was my reaction in 2017, when this novel reached the finals in the Rising Star…and honestly, it’s still part of my reaction now. You see, as a writer, those accolades, the “yes” if you wish, will always be so much less numerous than the “no”s .