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Feb

Book reviews

Gary Smailes

Almost 5′4″ by Isobella Jade

This is cross posted from Caroline Smailes’ blog. If you follow this link and leave a ‘pick me’ comment you can win one of three copies of Isobella Jade’s excellent book Isobella Jade is no ordinary model. She’s barely 5’2”, almost 5’4” when she’s wearing heels. Because of her height, modelling was perhaps not the most obvious or easiest of career choices and Isobella soon...

Feb

Proactive Writer

Gary Smailes

Is your book invisible?

In a previous post I set out to explain the way in which big publishers operated and why this gave literary agents so much power. In essence, big publishers work on a model that predicts just a handful of titles making excessive profits in any given year. Publishers accept that most titles will make little, if any, profit and it is the handful of ’successful’ titles which support the business. Since...

Jan

Gary Smailes

3 Ways to Market your Book for Free

The publishing world has changed and the days of a writer being able to sit back and let a publisher market their books are long gone. Today a successful writer needs to be a marketing machine in their own right. Below are three classic ways to market your book for free. You have probably seen or used some (or all) of these methods in the past. However, what I hope to do is to breathe fresh life into these tried...

Jan

Get Published

Gary Smailes

Why is it so hard to get published?

Getting published is tough – really tough! For new writers it often seems as though the publishing industry has set up a succession of doors and hurdles to make it as difficult as possible to get published. Big publishers work to a pretty simple business model. At the start of the year they set a budget and use this to determine the number of titles that they will publish. The publisher works on the assumption...

Jan

Gary Smailes

6 things every writer with a blog needs to know about attracting more traffic

We all want visitors to our sites and the best source for new visitors is search engines. Here are a few tips to make your blog more visible to search engines such as Google. Know your keywords: The first step to being more visible to Google is to know your keywords. If you look on Google analytics this will give you stats for keywords from people’s searches that are bringing them to your site. You need to...

Jan

Gary Smailes

Writers and Stumble Upon

Yesterday I suggested that Adwords could be an option for writers looking to promote themselves on the web. In the comments it was correctly highlighted that Adwords can be expensive. It was also suggested that Facebook ads may be a more realistic option. Today I would like to point writers in the direction of Stumble Upon. I have used this for a number of years and the service regularly brings traffic to this...

Jan

Gary Smailes

Writers and Adwords

For writers trying to build an online presence traffic to your site is crucial. There are many ways to build traffic with engaging on other platforms (Twitter), producing excellent content and using services such as Stumble all being great choices. However, have you considered Google Adwords? You know those text ads that you see in search results on Google. Well those are text ads that advertisers write and...

Jan

Proactive Writer

Gary Smailes

Boosting a writer’s online presence [video]

For me, last year was the year of the Writer’s Online Platform. It was the year that many new writers first grappled with the concept of using the internet to boost their profile and promote/develop themselves as a writer. 2009 was also the year where the tools and knowledge needed to build an effective platform became widely and freely available. As we move into 2010, and all it holds, I would like to point...

Jan

Book reviews

Gary Smailes

And What Do You Do?

I have a copy of And What Do You Do? to give away. Just leave a pick me comment. It is a modern truth about writers that very few are able to make a full time living from writing books. One solution is to work a normal 9-to-5 job and write in your spare time. However, another route is to treat writing as a part time job, and take on three or four other part time jobs to produce a number of income streams to...

Jan

Get Published

Gary Smailes

Non-Fiction book proposals

The main difference between a non-fiction book proposal and a fiction book proposal, is that for a fiction book proposal the chances are that the book will already be written. However, for a non-fiction book proposal the book will probably NOT yet be completed. The BubbleCow 5 day email guide to writing a great book proposal can be used for both non-fiction and fiction titles (just add your email to subscribe...

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BubbleCow’s Story

BubbleCow will edit your book

Imagine how much easier it would be to get published if a writer could think like a publisher or agent. This was Caroline Smailes’ goal when she set up BubbleCow.

After securing a multiple book deal with HarperCollins, editor and writer Caroline realised that most writers stood almost no chance of getting published due to a lack of understanding of how the publishing industry really worked. BubbleCow was set up to give writers the best possible chance of securing a book deal.

The BubbleCow story...

Almost 5′4″ by Isobella Jade

Is your book invisible?

3 Ways to Market your Book for Free

Why is it so hard to get published?

6 things every writer with a blog needs to know about attracting more traffic

Writers and Stumble Upon

Writers and Adwords

Boosting a writer’s online presence [video]

And What Do You Do?

Non-Fiction book proposals

Editing your book

Helping you pitch

Mentoring