NEW Feature – Author Interviews on Writing and Book Marketing

Today, I’m launching a new feature to help all my lovely Indie authors — as part of the launch celebration for Marketing Indieworld–a cutting edge book on Book Marketing written by multi-award winning author. Currently a top 100 book in Amazon.

Indie authors: Answer as many of the following questions as you want. Be sure to call out readers with clear links to your books and what you’re looking for:

1. Sales
2. ARCs
3. Beta readers
4. Reviews
5. Other

Once you’ve answered all the questions, send them to [email protected] and I’ll get them up on my blog, in my newsletter (almost 1000 subscribers), and in my social networks.

Questions

1. What’s your favorite thing about writing?
2. Describe the place you normally use when you’re writing. What music do you listen to? Anything special in there besides a computer?
3. What is your inspiration for writing?
4. Tell us a little about a recent project (you may share up to 250 words of your work in progress or recently published novel)
5. What’s your writing process like? Where do you get ideas for your plots? Are you a plotter or a pantser? Do you use special software?
6. Tell us why you started writing. How long? How many books? What’s your motivation? How long to write a book?
7. Do you research your books? Characters? Scenes? Tell us a little about that process.
8. How do you deal with writer’s block?
9. What tactics work best for you when it comes to marketing books? Have you seen a change in the best marketing strategies over time?
10. Do you do all your marketing online or offline? Both? Which is the most successful?
11. If you could give advice to someone just starting on their writing journey, what 3 things would you tell them?

Feel free to add questions of your own or find some online inspiration, such as these.

Sending your response

Send answers as a word document (ie. Microsoft Word or Google Doc) to: [email protected]

Please format with the questions in bold and the answers in italics. Please edit for grammar and spelling as I won’t do that for you.

Include a headshot, a book cover, and other images, if you wish.

Your commitment

$0 cost

You must try to be interesting and creative–you want readers to want to read your books. Also, editing is important.

You should agree to share not only your interview but those posted by others on this site. Let’s help each other.

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The fine print

We make no guarantee that your interview will appear on my blog, when it will appear, or that it will appear in its entirety.