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Ready to get book marketing savvy in the new year? Today’s episode of Charlotte Readers Podcast kicks off with insights from 7 members who’ve participated in the Weekly Writer Support Group.
In this podcast episode, we share our best tips and experience on what works in building author platform and selling books, how to gather reviews, and our most unique or enjoyable marketing events or tactics.
Two fun updates as we kick off the Fall/ Winter season for The Best of Women’s Fiction podcast. We are celebrating our 100th episode (with a giveaway!), and a new collaboration for book clubs, with Book Club Bites.
FeedSpot just released their list of the Top 30 Women Fiction Blogs and Websites.
I was thrilled to see my Lainey Cameron website and blog featured! And even more excited to see I’m on this list with other authors and book bloggers I admire.
Fun feminist fiction, The Exit Strategy, was just announced as the Winner in Women’s Fiction category and Honorable Mention in General Fiction in the Top Shelf Book Awards.
That makes 14 award wins in total for the lil’ small publisher debut that could!
PSA of the day: If you haven’t turned on 2 factor authentication on your account, do it now. I put this off for ages, but in the last week I’ve seen 5+ authors and bookstagrammers with 5- 10,000 followers get hacked. And unfortunately, if your account is hacked (I don’t mean copied or cloned, but someone has gained access to it), then you as an author have little recourse.
I’m in in awe of these two amazing women. Pamela Stockwell and Kelly Hartog.
They met through the online Zoom writing dates held by Women’s Fiction Writers Association.
They’ve never met in real life (at least not yet), but when Kelly needed a kidney to continue gifting us with her wonderful self, Pamela stepped up.
Lainey Cameron was recently interviewed on The Hasty Book List by @ashleyhasty !
I answer questions about which books inspire me, which character I'd be best friends with, who I'd want to be stuck in an elevator with, and what I'd be doing if I wasn't an author or a tech exec (surprise surprise it involves The Best of Women's Fiction podcast and donkeys!).
Lainey joins Erika Lance and CR Rice to talk about her novel, The Exit Strategy, girl-power grown up, books that don’t fit into normal publisher categories, and why my first novel took five years to write.
This podcast interview is a gift to my writer friends - and includes some topics I haven’t addressed before - Imposter syndrome, how to take something useful from rejection feedback, the biggest mistake I made early in my writing career. And why the writing rules are not always helpful.
The Publicity dilemma webinar:
Do you need a publicist to successfully launch your book?
Is it worth the investment?
What are the pros and cons of working with a publicist (and how do you pick the right one?)