Linda Dunn

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

—Antonio Porchia

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What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

—Paul J. Meyer

Newsletter Compliance

There are two main areas to focus on for achieving compliance with your newsletters.

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Get Social⁠
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How do you get involved with your followers? ⁠
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-follow back⁠
-find common ground⁠
-comment on their posts⁠
-engage them on your posts⁠
-ask questions⁠
-build a relationship⁠

Building Your Author Website my author website, what do I need for my author website, do I need an author website

Building Your Author Website

If you don’t already have a website, author, you need to get on that ASAP! Sure, readers may be able to find you through physical and online bookstores, but how can you be reached?

Read on:

Author, is your blog discoverable?

• Are you sharing excerpts on social media?
• Are you linking back to relevant blog posts?
• Are you posting consistently?

Your author blog is a great way to bring new people to your author website. Do everything you can to make it discoverable.

Are people talking about your book, newsletter, or blog? That's ideal.

Social mentions, shares, mentions, etc., raise your visibility, author.

The goal is to keep them talking.

Happy Sunday.

Author, is your website discoverable?

• Have you updated SEO recently?
• Are you using keywords in your headers, text, etc.?
• Are your website links working on social media?

Your author website is the cornerstone of your author platform. Do everything you can to make it discoverable.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

—Anais Nin

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The Author and a Newsletter Newsletters keep your subscribers close. These subscribers opt-in by choice. They want to hear what you have to share.

The Author and a Newsletter

Newsletters keep your subscribers close.

These subscribers opt-in by choice. They want to hear what you have to share.

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It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.

—Harvey Pekar

In the age of digital, it can be easy to forget that your books are physical objects. It is important to do a thorough assessment of the physicality of your books (and yourself) as well as a digital one.

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We can't talk about the book, my book, this book with every post. We certainly don't post "buy my book" non-stop.
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What does that leave?

Be social with everything around your book without pushing it at your followers. If you cause enough interest, they will support you in many ways.⁠

You are hilarious!

Go All Out.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power, a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

—Marsha Sinetar

Happy #Caturday,

Author, are you connecting with the writing community and reading community?

You need both communities to thrive.

Engage, nurture, support, educate, and more.

Happy #Caturday

Is book marketing puzzling you, author?

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Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

—Daniel Pinkwater

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

—Nicholas M. Butler

“If there is hope for us, and there must be, Mackey seems to be saying that it sits in this ability to love the other. It is on this note that the book ends, with the final lines of the penultimate poem, the one that gives the collection its title.”

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