No, I haven’t abandoned you, my dear readers! I continue to publish posts on my other blog site here: http://claudenougat.blogspot.it/ For a while, I experimented with publishing on this blog site here, using it as a “mirror” blog for those who don’t like Google and don’t wish to post comments there. But, as I am…
Category: Blogging
A Writer’s Life: Can Blogging Help You Sell Your Books?
Conventional wisdom has it that blogging helps to sell books, and the more successful your blog, the more books you will sell. Not so. Yet, marketing gurus and hugely successful bloggers like Adrienne Smith maintain that with blogging you can “make a living” (see here). Perhaps you can if you sell something else than books….
Author Bob Rector’s Interview of C.N.
Reblogged from author Bob Rector’s blog, see here. He’s just launching a round of interviews of authors – so keep an eye open on his blog, more interesting interviews are sure to come! I’m very honored to have drawn his interest. He is a remarkably talented writer himself, the author of Letters from the Front,…
Readers vs. Watchers: The Digital Revolution is Not Over
Lately a huge controversy has developed around the theme “Indies are Beating Traditional Publishers”, and one publishing guru, Mark Coker, the father of Smashwords, has loudly predicted that self-published authors will outrun traditional publishers by 2020, see here. Indie authors, carried forward by the digital revolution that has lowered production costs and leveled the field,…
A Writer’s Quandary: To Blog in a Niche or Not to Blog?
Like every writer who starts out, I was told I should have an Internet presence, an easily recognizable brand. That’s why I started this blog back in 2009 as a way to brand myself. I also got on Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest and scores of other sites. On day one, I had one reader…
Claude Forthomme 