As an author, engaging with the bookstagram community is a crucial aspect of growing your audience. Having your book featured on a bookstagram account can help you reach new readers.
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Careful What You Tweet For
If we can learn one thing from Rowling’s activities, is that while social media is a great tool for authors, it can also be an instrument of destruction. Therefore, we’ve created a list of four guidelines to help authors use their social media to provide a personal, meaningful connection that doesn’t waste your time or blow back in your face.
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Toxic Romance: People of Color
We need to continue to push the conversation on why inclusivity in all literature is important. As publishers and gatekeepers of content, we must do our due diligence to serve all readers. It simply isn’t right or fair that large swaths of Americans are not seeing themselves in the books they read.
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Toxic Romance: LGBTQ Representation
Stories with LGBTQ themes have been around since the origins of Greek mythology, but in the year 2020 it is still hard to consider LGBTQ literature as truly part of the mainstream.
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Toxic Romance: Body Types
Romance writing has long been celebrated for giving women a voice in literature. Yet, the genre is failing to do more, including show a range of body types.
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Social Media for Authors
Although there are no hard numbers on how social media impacts book sales, it is an incredibly powerful tool for promotion and recognition. However, leveraging social media can be a daunting task. We’re here to break down the basics and help you take that first step in building your online brand.
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Metadata 101
Metadata is the backbone of the publishing industry and is the key to book sales in today’s market. It is important for every author, commercially published and self-published alike, to understand how metadata works, why it’s important, and how to best utilize it to their advantage.
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Building Relationships with Booksellers
Establishing and maintaining good relationships with booksellers is an important factor in the success of a book, especially for authors who are still finding their footing. A good librarian or bookseller who knows you and believes in you might take the time to put your book on a recommended list, or point it out to a customer who doesn’t have a title in mind.
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Toxic Romance: Consent
In the wake of #MeToo revelations, it became clear that the way we treat sexual violence and victims of sexual violence in this country needs to change. Many blamed the media. Many more blamed the victims. And some—including former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton—blamed romance novels.
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Publishing 101
Publishing is a complex and multifaceted industry. If you’ve written a book and are looking to get published, but don’t know how, we’ve broken down the ins and outs of publishing you need to know.
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