Resources and tips for the self-published author.

All successful self-published authors talk about the importance of building a solid author platform to ensure successful book marketing. But what does that really mean? I’m going to tell you specifically what an author platform should consist of and when you should begin to lay the foundation. I’ll start with when. That’s the easy part.

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If you are a self-published author, you have likely discovered that you need to become your own marketing expert as well. And if you are marketing in 2016, you understand the importance of tapping into the amazing resource that is social media. There are some basic tips every author should know about Twitter before they

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    This week we are talking about the addition of social media for writers.

    We have a very special topic for Tuesday’s #IndieChat on 6/2/15!

There has been a lot of messy activity this week involving publishing.

Want to join in on our Twitter chat, but need some help figuring out how to join in on a chat?

We’re excited to have Nicole Miller, @nmillerbooks, as our guest on Tuesday’s #IndieChat on 10/14/14.

Last night we had book marketing maven Joel Friedlander as our guest for #indiechat, our weekly Twitter chat for self-published  authors, where he shared tips on how to build your author base on Twitter. 

Every week we host #indiechat. We invite industry experts and authors to discuss and share tips on the indie and publishing landscape. #Indiechat is held every Tuesday at 9pm Eastern. You can check out our previous chat logs on BiblioCrunch Storify.

There are lots of tools out there for social media assistance. We’ve narrowed down a list of what we find are the best tools for authors.