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 […]
Book Bloggers Write, But Do They Speak?
Writers tend to be introverts. They like to hide away in their offices with their computers and not talk to many people. Like most aspiring authors, book bloggers in many cases tend to be introverts, too. However, they’ve figured out that they can build that coveted author’s platform from the comfort of their lonely writer’s […]
Promotion: Getting Ready for the Launch
With my blogged book edited and designed and ready for printing, the forewords and blurbs all in, and everything basically in the hands of the publisher, you might think I’m just sitting around twiddling my thumbs. Not. I am gearing up for the busiest period in the life of my book yet. March and April […]
Promotion: How to Get Blurbs for Your Blogged Book
In addition to getting an expert to write a foreword for your blogged book, you will want to have authorities, authors, thought leaders, and other well-known people in your field and in related fields offer short reviews, called testimonials or blurbs, for the front and/or back cover of your book or the inside of your […]
Promotion: Getting A Foreword for Your Blogged Book
There are lots of ways to promote your book. Some of them happen long before you book is published as a print or ebook. Since my book is two or three months away from release, I’m currently gearing up for full-force promotion, which will begin in May. Typically, promotion begins about three months before release, […]