What keeps a novel from getting noticed? Hint: it ain’t necessarily talent alone. In a recent post on Powellsbooksblog.com, veteran novelist Karen Karbo contrasted ideas about what keeps novels from getting noticed. To highlight these myths and truths, Karbo describes her blockades to literary success in the 1990s versus similar blockades now. To Karbo, there […]
Social Media
Behind the Scenes of the UtK Social Media Initiative
By Hayley Wilson hayleyotrope
Perhaps the most exciting and daunting promotional aspect of Ooligan Press’s upcoming title Untangling the Knot is the anthology’s whopping roll call of twenty-six contributors. That’s twenty-six sets of readers and their fans to connect with, and—supposing that most of these writers participate in at least one form of social media—at least twenty-six different social […]
The Buzz Around Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before
By Stephanie Podmore
I’m happy to announce that the ebook for Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before is now available. The release began last Saturday with a promotion to celebrate National Coming Out Day. Anyone who downloads a copy and links a review on Amazon or Goodreads to our Twitter by October 31 will be entered […]
Time to Spread the Word
By Meagan Lobnitz
Hello again, everyone. There has been a great deal of activity with the Untangling the Knot manuscript over the last few weeks. Nearly all of the final edits on the individual pieces are complete. The project team has been hard at work type coding each of the pieces that are finished, a process which makes […]
Getting There
By Meagan LobnitzHello again, everyone. It has been a relatively calm week for Untangling the Knot. The project team’s main focus has been the continuation of some ongoing tasks as we try to finish the summer term with all of the project’s goals and deadlines in mind. The social media audit of the Untangling the Knot contributors […]
Authors Navigate Social Media Waters
By k Marthaler
All writers must come to terms with knowing that bringing the book to press is the biggest but not the last step of the book publishing process. Authors need to be actively involved in the promotion of their books. Those who develop a social media presence and attend to their fanbase online are more attractive to agents […]