Sales and Marketing

Virtual book tours have become the new hype for independent writers. Many authors fall for this – and they end up expecting the sales of their book to increase considerably during the tour. However, this isn’t exactly true. One of the best things that a virtual book tour offers is exposure, or, the kind of exposure you wouldn’t be able to get on your own as an independent … [Read more...] about 5 Top Secrets for Doing a Perfect Virtual Book Tour

As Chief Content Officer and co-founder of Copyblogger Media, Sonia Simone is one of the few online personalities who are considered as authorities on the subject of content marketing. So if you’re an author looking to make a mark online, you can benefit a lot from learning how to do content marketing the Sonia Simone way. Here are a few tips to get you started: Understand the … [Read more...] about How Authors Can Do Content Marketing in the Sonia Simone Way

Please note: This article contains affiliate links to Ebook Launch. That means Writing Tips Oasis receive a small % of the sale if you purchase a book cover from Ebook Launch, but at no extra cost to you. There are many ways that you can build up excitement for your upcoming novel, but cover reveals, when done right, can be extremely helpful. Cover reveals will get your … [Read more...] about How to Do a Cover Reveal the Right Way

If you’re an author and you want to build an online presence, creating an author website is imperative. However, whether people will like your author website or not is an entirely different issue. If you want to avoid creating your own website only for it to be panned by visitors, here are 5 things you need to avoid: 1. Cluttered layout Technically, this is something that … [Read more...] about 5 Things People Dislike about Your Author Website

Your bio is the first glimpse your reader’s will have of you, whether they’ve read it after reading your book or before that. The result is the same – it’s the first impression the readers will have into who you are, not just as a writer, but as a person as well. You stop being just a name and a surname, and become someone they feel sort of familiar with, because they have read … [Read more...] about 5 Tips for Writing a Compelling Author Bio