By Catharine Bramkamp (@cbramkamp) In this final installment of her four-part series on podcasting, Catharine Bramkamp offers tips on how to conduct podcast interviews that keep your listeners wanting more. You’ve experienced dead space on the air. You ask a question and your guest pauses, for a very long excruciating minute. Don’t just cue the […]
Disaster Avoidance: What Not to Do With a Podcast Guest
By Catharine Bramkamp (@cbramkamp) In part three of our podcasting series by Catharine Bramkamp, she explores ways to avoid podcasting disasters. You invited a number of guests to appear on your podcast. All is well, but no one new wants to play. And no one is returning your emails. What happened? After two and half […]
Podcast Guests: Three Tips to Better Bookings
By Catharine Bramkamp (@cbramkamp) In this second article in her series on podcasting, Catharine Bramkamp gives us her best tips for finding and working with guests for your podcast. You are a stud! You have your own podcast show, but you have nothing to say this week! After all the work and effort to create […]
Write Out Loud: How to Start Podcasting
By Catharine Bramkamp (@cbramkamp) I’m pleased to introduce Catharine Bramkamp. Catharine is a writer, author, and writing coach. This is the first article in a four-part series from Catharine about podcasting. In this post, she explains how to podcast and why authors should be running their own podcasts. You’ve been blogging for a while. So […]
15 Reasons to Go on a Blog or Virtual Tour—Book or No Book
Some people think blog tours and virtual book tours are dead. I disagree. They provide a powerful tool to promote the release of your book or your blog. Most often, authors use blog or virtual book tours to increase the visibility of their books. Indeed, this is a fabulous tool for getting the word out […]
What is a Virtual Book Tour
The days of book tours are dead and gone. It’s a rare author who spends time and money going from city to city to do signings or to encourage shoppers in the few physical books stores that still exist to purchase a new release. It’s even more rare to find a publisher who will put […]
Don’t Kill Your Dream of a Traditional Publishing Deal by Self-publishing First
The stories of successful indie authors, in particular ebook authors, attracting agents and publishers has spawned a common belief that self-publishing represents a viable path to a traditional publishing contract. In fact, if becoming a traditionally published author is your goal, self-publishing your book first may be a huge mistake. It’s true that quite a […]
12 Ways to Make Sure You Finish Blogging Your Book
As with any book you write, it’s easy to stop blogging your book in the middle. And many writers do. When you take on a challenge like National Book Blogging Month (NaBoBloMo), which asks you to write a book, albeit a short one, in just 30 days, the likelihood of quitting increases for a variety […]
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