Karen loves sharing advice with writers and often writes articles with marketing tips, information on self publishing, and general writing tips. If you are interested in using any of these articles for your blog, please be sure to give proper credit to Karen and link back to her site. Also, drop her an email at info(at)karenbaney(dot)com to let her know when and where you are using her articles. Enjoy!
Sales & Marketing
500 Books in 12 Hours: Look for Unique Marketing Opportunities - My experience marketing a novel on EReaderNewsToday.
Author Marketing Guide - List of different marketing avenues for authors including the type of marketing, goal of using that avenue, sales generation rating, and cost.
Are You Leaving Money On The Table? A Must Have Distribution Channel - Concrete numbers from a study on my sales by distribution channel.
Finding and Working With Book Reviewers - tips on how to find and work with book reviewers.
How I Published My Book for $350 - Detailed discussion of the production costs of my third novel, A Life Restored.
How To Avoid A Black Hole? Ways to Maximize Author Internet Presence - Things for authors to consider when setting up social media accounts, websites, etc., to help maximize their internet presence and make it easier for readers to find them.
How To Double Your Sales - Tips on three key things I did that resulted in my sales doubling month over month for a three month period, including sales information.
How To Price Your eBook - A practical approach for authors to determine how to price an eBook and come up with a pricing strategy.
Managing Your Brand - tips for authors on how to maximize their internet presence and how to avoid black holes (or leaving the reader wanting to buy your book but not giving them a way to buy it).
Maximize Free Days on Kindle Select - Checklist and tips on how to prepare for your free days on Kindle Select.
The Business of Writing: Marketing Mix (Part 1) - A discussion on the first two “P”s of marketing: Product & Price
The Business of Writing: Marketing Mix (Part 2) - A discussion on the final two “P”s of marketing: Place (Distribution) & Promotion
Twitter Hash Tags For Authors - Common twitter hashtags that are helpful for authors to promote their books.
Work Smarter Not Harder: Quick Marketing Wins for Authors - A short list of marketing quick wins for authors
Why Sign Up For KDP Select - My plan and actual results from my first two free days on Kindle Select.
Self Publishing
15 Easy Steps For Publishing Your Book To Kindle - Step by step guide for publishing a book to Kindle.
Maximize Free Days on Kindle Select - Checklist and tips on how to prepare for your free days on Kindle Select.
My Kindle Is On Fire - My feedback on what I like and don’t like about my new Kindle Fire.
Should You Self Publish? - How to decide when a manuscript is ready for publication.
Why I Self Publish - Reasons why I decided to self publish.
Why Sign Up For KDP Select - My plan and actual results from my first two free days on Kindle Select.
Writing & Researching
Dialogue: Common Mistakes Part 1 - Avoid overusing character names in dialogue.
Dialogue: Common Mistakes Part 2 - Misuse of unspoken words as a tag for dialogue.
Dialogue: Common Mistakes Part 3 - He said, she said Merry Go Round
Dialogue: Common Mistakes Part 4 - Perfect English syndrome.
Executing A Solid Plot - Avoid meaningless word count filler.
Research Tips and Tricks for Museums - How I used my iPhone and Evernote to gather research notes at a museum.
Show vs. Tell - Using “show” techniques in writing to engage the reader versus “telling” the reader something happened.
Writing Faith in Fiction - Tips on how to integrate faith elements into a novel seamlessly without preaching to the reader.
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