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Does Your Web Presence Help You or Paralyze You?

Being social and remaining effectively present in a social context is, like most skills, easier for some than for others. Maybe “easy” is the wrong word.
I was having breakfast with Philly author Jonathan Maberry this past week when the simplest of examples dropped in my lap.
I’d seen a blog post earlier in the morning [...]

Who’s in an Author’s Community?

by Don Lafferty

Chris Brogan talks, in his article yesterday, about Paul Coelho and Scott Westerfeld using the social web to engage their communities in a way that enables readers to congregate, and to participate in the creative energy surrounding a book like never before. While doing this, these guys create real relationships which always amount to [...]

12 Social Media Essentials For Writers

by Don Lafferty

Creating a Social Media Footprint is a no-brainer for a writer establishing platform — fiction and non-fiction. Set aside three or four hours of your self-marketing time to knock out the following list of basics, and you’ll be well on your way to having your name and your work more search-able and share-able.
1. Blog – [...]