How to Market Your Book Without Being Annoying
We all know that social media is one of the best tools to market your book. But can there ever be too much online marketing? Well, there is such a thing as too much of the WRONG kind of online...
View ArticleTED Talks That Will Inspire Your Writing
If you haven’t unintentionally spent three hours watching TED Talks online, that’s about to change. It’s almost impossible to watch just one video at a time because the topics are so interesting. For...
View ArticleThe Ten Best Tips and Tools from #PublishWise, our Author Platform Event
Yesterday, Wise Ink held an event where we got a bunch of indie authors together for a seminar and brainstorming session for creating and maintaining an author platform. We had novelists and...
View ArticleMaking the Most Out of 140 Characters
As many of you probably know, Wise Ink is a BIG fan of Twitter. It is perhaps the most valuable tool in social media for an indie author (or any writer, really) to market their book without losing...
View ArticleHow to Make the Most out of your Social Media
If you’re an enterprising authorpreneur, you’re engaged on social media. You blog. You tweet. You have hundreds of Facebook friends and likes on your book’s page. You check in and engage with your fans...
View ArticleThe Best Twitter Accounts for Word Lovers
There’s no other social media in this world that makes you more aware of the importance of individual words than Twitter does. So let’s celebrate the frustrating limitations of the 140-character...
View ArticlePlanning Your World Wide (Web) Tour
Good news, indie authors: you too can feel like Beyoncé when promoting your new book by going on a world-wide tour—a World Wide Web tour, that is. One of the savviest ways authors are harnessing...
View ArticleWhat You Probably Meant to Say To Us: A Twitter-Inspired Etiquette Guide
Here we are, trapped behind our laptops, just trying to transmute our vast, disorganized thoughts into legible English. We haven’t been bothering anyone. In fact, if we think about it, we’ve...
View ArticleGuest Post from CC Aune: Don’t Be A Twit: Using Twitter Effectively
I’ve spent six weeks building two Twitter accounts from scratch. By Tweeting dawn-to-midnight, I’ve attracted 2,418 followers to my personal essay blog page and 1,918 to my fiction author page. Of...
View ArticleCrowdfunding for Authors: A Wise Ink Guide
For many authors looking to self-publish, finding the money to finance a project can be a significant and overwhelming barrier. One internet phenomenon that has become an increasingly popular method...
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