Author Media Promotions

In this economy many authors are choosing the self promoting route. While most author promotions and book marketing experts don't recommend this, there's no doubt that there has been a increase in the self promoting author and especially those that have self published. If that's you, I encourage you to take the time and do your homework before jumping into the marketing arena. While it may seem easy, one soon finds out that it's not, few find success and it's very time consuming.
Yes you can build your own blog, but the question is do you know how to build and launch a successful blog and do you have the time to learn the process and everything surrounding that process? Yes you can join various author sites, interact with other authors, share your book, book cover and so on. However, are other authors your market? Yes there are some great authors forums out there, however, and once again is that where book lovers hang out or authors? Then there's the Internet, the search engines, key words, labels, how the search engines work and many other things to consider coupled with the fact that they are constantly changing and evolving.
My point being while all these things can be fun and a part of building a network while creating book buzz, they are and should be seen as secondary to a well thought out authors promotions and book marketing plan.
Here is a simple author promotions and book marketing plan for the new and self published author. Let's call it class 101 for authors.
1) Have a professional authors web site built.
2) Get your own .com that fits your book and marketing plan.
3) Have someone with the knowledge build or help you build and launch a professional blog.
4) Create a network that promotes you, your book, your web site and your blog that markets and promotes you as a author and your book not to other authors, but to book lovers within your market and buying audience.
5) Understand that you will not become a overnight success, that it takes hard work and time.

That's simple, now get started.
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Authors Blog Class 101

For those of you that are considering launching a blog here is a authors blog in the makings and unfolding. As with most sites found on the web, everything starts from scratch with a overall vision and then starts unfolding one creation and one page at a time.

First a author needs to decide on which blogging community to go with. Personally I like blogger and for various reasons from A to Z. Second you must pick a template to work with. Now for the best part regarding templates with blogger. You can change template designs at any time or within any process of building your blog from start to finish and blogger has some pretty awesome templates to choose from.

After you have chosen a template, next comes putting the furniture in the house so to speak and laying out your blog using the design program, color choices, ad ons and extras. I would recommend laying out your side bars first with all the ad ons, extras and goodies if possible because the length of your side bar will also determine the length of your blog and how many posts that you display on the home page.

There are millions of blogs on line so take some time to look around and determine which blogging community and template that you want to start out with, how you want the overall appearance of your blog to look and this will make things a lot easier. If you use blogger to build and launch your blog spend some time in the management program viewing all the templates, ad ons and extras. This will make your designing process and finished product go and look much cleaner.

Something else to consider from the get go is your blog address. Think this one out and create a blog address that best describes your blog, you as author or your book.

And the best part, if you choose blogger just follow the simple instructions and you will be live and online in minutes.

The Power Of Using Author Blogs To Market Your Books

Are you thinking about getting your own authors blog? While it's very important that a author have a authors web site, many authors are also using blogs to promote and market their books. Blogger and Word Press are the two most popular blogging networks. Both offer free blogs, great templates and easy to use design programs. Here are a few authors blogs to give you some ideas about creating your own authors blog.