Your Author Website's Landing Page

 

Contributed by Karen Cioffi, Children's Writer and Self-Publisher

 The internet is teeming with information on everything you can possibly think of. This includes information on your business platform. But with all this information available, there are still many who aren’t aware of the basics, the dos and don’ts of an author online platform.

I recently came across a website on ‘article submissions.’ Finding it on Twitter and being interested, I clicked on the link.

It brought me to a site with articles on unrelated topics. There wasn’t an About page or any information on what the site was about. And there wasn’t a Contact or Services page.

This marketer/business owner was leading people back to his site, apparently to sell something, but the site was completely ineffective. It was one of the most puzzling sites I’ve ever seen.

So, the question is: If someone lands on your website by accident, through a search, or via a social link, is it effective? Is it visitor optimized?

To answer these questions, you first need to know the fundamentals of a business website. And a business website can be an author’s site, a freelance writing site, a home business site, or a small business site. The basics are the same for all websites that sell something, whether it be books, services, or a product.

To guide you in the right direction to creating a visitor-optimized website, let’s go over the very basics.

Online marketing 101 is to create a website that works, a website that converts visitors into clients, customers, or subscribers.

This is the foundation of your online empire, and an effective website needs to immediately answer these four basic questions:

1. Who are you?
2. What are you offering?
3. Why is what you’re offering worthy of the visitor’s time, money, or email address?
4. Is the path to what you’re offering, the path to the YES, simple? (The YES is the potential customer’s positive action, whether it’s opting into your mailing list or buying what you’re offering, or other call-to-action)

Let’s go over each element:

1. Who You Are
Make sure your website has an About Me page. In addition, your landing page should clearly identify who you are. Don’t let the visitor have to hunt you down – don’t let her have to search through your site just to find some information on you.

Tip: Keep the About Me content conversational, like you’re talking to a friend.

2. What You Have to Offer
Your landing page needs to quickly convey what you have to offer. To do this, you can use an image with content or a video. Video is highly effective—it has been proven to increase conversion rates. 

Tip: Keep the ‘key’ information above the fold. This means it must be visible upon landing on the page. The visitor shouldn’t have to scroll down the page to find it.

3. Why What You’re Offering is Worthy of the Visitor’s Time/Money/Email
Let the visitor know the value of what you have to offer. Show how it will benefit her. And, if possible, make it seem exclusive. Figure out a way to make the visitor think he can’t get what you’re offering anywhere else.

Tip: The visitor must perceive the value of your offer as higher than its cost.

4. Is the Path to What You’re Offering (the Path to the YES) Simple?
Marketers use the acronym KISS (Keep it Simple Silly) to emphasize the importance of simplicity. Your website should be easy to navigate, focused and clear, have a simple design, and have an easy path to saying YES.

Tip: To keep it simple, have only one or two steps for opting in or to taking another call to action. 

To further cement the ‘tell it all and tell it quickly’ website strategy, the new timeline is only 3-5 seconds to get the job done. That’s the length of time you have to grab the visitor, let him know who you are, what you have to offer, and how it can benefit him. Longer than that and the visitor will bounce back to his search results.  
    
Ready, set, go!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Karen Cioffi is a working children’s writer and self-publisher. If you need help with ghostwriting, rewriting, editing, coaching, or publishing, visit Writing for Children with Karen Cioffi. 

You can check out Karen’s books HERE.

Connect with Karen on social media. 

 

What To Do When You Can’t Find The Right Word

 When Words Disappear…

 

 

                  And How Some Authors Can Fight What They Can’t Change

 

 

By Carolyn Howard-Johnson, 
author of  the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers

Including the soon to be released Word by Word: A Vocabulary for Success 

 

 

Words disappear all the time. They disappear from dictionaries because the English language is full of words lexicographers have determined we don’t use any more--or don’t use enough to warrant a place in current dictionaries. We have so many because humans value the ability to easily communicate. Furthermore we love them so much we borrow them other language and make up new ones at will when the ones we have don’t do the job at hand well enough or for the joy of being creative. Our needs sometimes change and we discard them or we misuse them often enough we come to dislike them. We forget them when we’re young and from disease as we age.  When they disappear--for whatever reason, we tend to miss them, so we replace them with something else. But there are a few in the world who love them so much they keep records that have grown so there are too many for a single dictionary--or even a whole library large enough to handle them all--or large enough to make a claim that we haven’t missed a few as time passed. We have found the internet a good, but not perfect keeper of words for us.

 

That doesn’t mean authors might not need one of those forgotten, those discarded. 

 When a word can’t be found (or verified) we might just give up.

 

And when that happens our writing suffers because as authors we have special needs that the general population might not.

 

We need these words to put into the mouths of characters. Maybe characters who live in another English-speaking country or dialect-speaking region. Maybe characters were bring to life from another century, another era, another class. When we reach such an impasse, here are a few ways to conquer the problem: 

 

~Ask your wife or even the person sitting next to you at Starbucks trying to get some writing done.

~Using keywords, look books published in past decades on Amazon’s New and used feature.

~I have a couple books of slang that I’ve stashed in my own real-life bookshelves.  Some are out of print, but I’m keeping them safe. 

~Ask people you know who are lots older—or younger—and see what they come up with.

~Makeup a word of your own. A poem called Jabberwocky made such words perfectly legitimate.

~Visit charity shops and buy old paperbacks for a dime. Start with Thesauri but anything including lists of words for specific purposes will do like one published only a few decades ago called The Describer’s Dictionary. 

~Put marginalia in all your book and don’t go giving them to charity or anyone else. 

~Build more bookshelves so you won’t feel obligated to clean house.

~And alphabetize your books in ways that will be meaningful to you decades from now.  Or adopt librarians’ methods of categorizing them.  

 

 

 

MORE ABOUT YOUR #WRITERSONTHEMOVE CONTRIBUTOR

 

 

The triptych that Amazon provides the authors of series
published by their KDP unit. It feels like bonus. 

 

Once a month Carolyn Howard-Johnson shares something writer-related she hopes might save some author from embarrassment (or make the task of writing more fun or creative.) The third edition of The Frugal Editor from Modern History Press includes contact list magic. It is the second multi award-winning book in her multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers. Find it on Amazon’s new buy-page for series where the e-book is offered with one click in online’s version of a set of books. (The availability—free—of that new page for authors with book series that appear on KDP’s pages is another of her #FrugalBookPromoterTips.) The Frugal Editor has been fully updated including a chapter on how backmatter can be extended to help readers and nudge book sales. And watch for her new book on—you guessed it—word lists! 

 

Some Thoughts Before Embarking on Writing a Series, Part I

Secrets of the Heart is the last
book in my Abi Wunder Ghost/
Mystery trilogy. It is a
work-in-progress.

By Linda Wilson   Website: bit.ly/44Dx1t9   

How big is your book idea? In fiction, it might cover generations as in The Little House series and The Rose Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Roger Lea MacBride, reddit (1); or growth of the main character which occurs in Nancy Drew mysteries. Have your pick of nonfiction topics that can blossom from a single topic, such as The Magic School Bus or the Body Works series; My Messy Body, My Noisy Body, etc.

Authors who write series promise readers that the fun doesn't have to end, that there's more excitement to come, more adventure and worlds to explore, more of these lives to be lived. In Writing the Fiction Series: The Complete Guide for Novels and Novellas, by Karen S. Wiesner, Weisner quotes author Thomas Helm: "Author and reader dread the end, which is the test of a good novel. Why not expand into a series?"

For three months, this blog-post trilogy will offer tips from my research and experience while writing and publishing a chapter-book trilogy. I hope the information will be helpful to you if you’re considering embarking on writing a series.

Why Turn a Perfectly Good Stand-Alone Book into a Series?

You might find that you’ve:

• Fallen in love with your characters, especially the main ones, who have so much more life to live that you can't say good-bye.
• Written in a genre that lends itself to series, such as mystery, ghost stories, romance, westerns, historical novels, fantasy and sci fi.
• Read that series sell well and publishers like to buy multiple books because series attract readers.
• Laid the groundwork in the first book.
• Loved reading series from childhood on. If you have, then you enjoy the feelings of familiarity series provoke.
• Enjoyed your setting and want to expand on it so your characters can explore worlds far and wide.    

The Next Step: Tips on Writing a Series to Keep in Mind

• Create a general outline that shows how each novel relates to the others.
• Keep track of the details and connecting threads among the novels in order to maintain continuity.
• Have an overall plot plan as well as a plan for each novel. 
• Be organized and prepared by knowing where your series will end, plotting a timeline to keep track of events.
• Choose a central conflict or premise for your series that "is the main tension or unknown that needs to be solved. In . . . Harry Potter, the central conflict is the protagonist's unfinished business with the villain, Lord Voldemort. In Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, the central conflict is between the world-dominion-seeking antagonist Sauron and the elves and hobbits who desire peace and freedom from tyranny." http://www.nownovel.com/blog/how-to-write-book-series/
• Plan for the passage of time and how your characters will age.

My Abi Wunder trilogy, ghost/mystery stories for 7-to-10-year olds, passed all of these considerations. Secret in the Stars, illustrated by Tiffany Tutti, and Secret in the Mist, illustrated by Danika Corrall, are now available on Amazon. Secrets of the Heart, illustrated by Danika Corrall, is in the work-in-progress stage. As listed above, the books have connecting threads that run through them, culminating in the last book. This is my challenge now: giving meaning to these threads and giving the book a satisfying ending.

Next month: "Tips on How to Start a Series," Part II

(1) https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthatbook/comments/u40i3s/childrens_fiction_series_where_each_book_focuses/ 

Moi with my trusty
writing buddies.

Linda's latest release is Secret in the Mist, the second book in the Abi Wunder trilogy, illustrated by Danika Corrall, cover art and formatting by 100 Covers, published December 2025. Two other new releases are the award-winning Botas Altas, the Spanish version of Tall Boots, illustrated by 1000 Storybooks, translated by Graciela Moreno and Adriana Botero; and Cuna en la Naturaleza, illustrated by 1000 Storybooks, the Spanish version of Cradle in the Wild, translated by Adriana Botero. Linda's newest books will be released sometime this year: The Pur-r-rfect Costume, a bilingual picture book in English and Spanish, illustrated by 1000 Storybooks, translated by Adriana Botero; and A Home Run Friendship, a middle grade book, cover art and formatting by 100 Covers.
 

Invisible Serves No One: Why You Need to Share What You Write

 by Suzanne Lieurance

There is a cost to staying invisible as a writer. It is not always obvious, and it rarely announces itself loudly. But it accumulates — in the work that never gets read, the readers who never find you, the opportunities that pass quietly to someone else simply because they showed up and you didn’t.

Why Writers Stay Invisible

Invisible feels safe. That’s the seduction of it. When you keep your work to yourself, you can’t be rejected. You can’t be misunderstood. You can’t be told it isn’t good enough. The work stays perfect in its private space, untouched by the messy reality of other people’s responses.

But invisible also means unread. Unheard. Unfound.

And here is the truth that every writer who has stepped into visibility eventually discovers: the readers who needed your work were out there the whole time. They were looking. They just couldn’t find you.

Why You Shouldn’t Hide Your Work

This is what makes invisibility not just a personal loss but something worth reconsidering on behalf of others. When you hide your work, you are not only withholding it from yourself and your own creative growth. You are withholding it from the person who would have been moved by it, helped by it, changed by it. The reader who would have felt less alone because of it.

Invisible serves no one.

Not you. Not your reader. Not the writing itself, which exists — on some level — to be encountered.

This doesn’t mean you owe the world every draft, every experiment, every half-formed idea. Privacy has its place in the creative process. The early drafts, the tender first attempts, the work that isn’t ready — these deserve protection.

But there comes a point in every piece of work where it is ready. Where it has been shaped and refined and given everything you have to give it. And at that point, keeping it hidden isn’t caution. It’s withholding.

So ask yourself this: Is this work hidden because it needs more time? Or is it hidden because I’m afraid of what happens when someone reads it?

If you’re afraid to share what you’ve written — that’s not a reason to stay invisible. 

That’s the exact moment to step forward.

Try it!

Suzanne Lieurance is the author of over 40 published books and a transformational Law of Attraction coach for writers who are ready to stop waiting to feel like the real thing. At Write by the Sea, she guides writers through the identity shift that changes everything — not just the writing, but the whole life built around it. She is the publisher of Manifesting Monthly magazine and the host of Monday Morning Manifestors.  

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Persist For the Right Fit

 

By Terry Whalin (@terrywhalin)

Change is the only constant in the publishing world. It’s like playing the childhood game of musical chairs. The players are constantly in motion and change positions and roles. It’s one of the reasons for writers reading the trade publications which report significant personnel changes. Editors become literary agents. Literary agents change and work for a publisher or they become a freelance editor. These examples are just a couple of the continually shifting landscape. 

As a writer, you have a dream and a desire to publish your words. It takes a lot of perseverance and persistence to find the right publisher for your work. The Chicken Soup for the Soul series is one of the bestselling series in the English language. Most people have forgotten their challenging beginning. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen were rejected 140 times before they located a publisher. That is a lot of rejections in the search to find the right fit.

There is only one way your book doesn’t get published or your story doesn’t appear in print or your book stops selling. It’s when you as a writer give up on your dream and stop. 

* You stop meeting new editors at a conference or on LinkedIN or through an online group.

* You stop reading about new publishing houses and new publications. Change can mean opportunity for your book and your writing--if you don’t stop.

* You stop pitching your writing or your book to literary agents and editors

* You stop writing a book proposal and query letter. If you haven’t read my Book Proposals That Sell (The Revised Edition), I encourage you to download the free Ebook then read it and take action on the information. 

I don’t encourage anyone reading these words to stop but instead to choose to keep going until you find the right fit for your writing. 

I heard a published author with an agent talk about her devotional going out to numerous publishers (40 is the number I recall) and getting rejected. The agent and author could not find the right place to publish this idea. Then one of the editors moved to a different publishing house. This editor remembered the author’s pitch and asked for the proposal. It was published along with three additional books. Her persistence paid off with four published devotional books. 

Also, recently I met a new magazine editor. One of my friends had written an original story for that magazine and never received a response. Her experience was a common one. When I asked this editor about another editor who attended last year. I learned he was no longer with the magazine. I asked if my friend could resend her article to the publication. The editor said this friend should send it directly to her and use my name with the submission. Will it get published? I don’t know if it will happen but now my friend has another opportunity. As with the book author, it takes persistence to find the right fit.

Many writers are following the “Field of Dreams” action plan. I’m referring to the movie where they build a baseball field then players and people come to it--even in an Iowa cornfield. Writers believe if they pitch to the right literary agent, their book will get traditional published. They believe if they build a great website, people will come. Or writers have many other fantasy ideas which are not based on reality. You must actively be looking for the right connection and the right fit through your email, phone calls and much more. When you locate a possibility, act and explore it. For example, several months ago I spent a chunk of time reaching out to the writers I met at a conference. One of those people emailed me back saying she pulled my email out of her spam or junk folder. What is sitting in your spam folder that could be an opportunity?

If you seize the moment, change can provide a fresh opportunity. How have you learned that it takes persistence to find the right fit? Let me know in your comments.

Tweetable:

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W. Terry Whalin, a writer and acquisitions editor lives in California. Get Terry’s newsletter and a 87-page FREE ebook packed with writing insights. Just follow this link to subscribe. A former magazine editor and former literary agent, Terry is an acquisitions editor at Morgan James Publishing. He has written more than 60 nonfiction books including  Jumpstart Your Publishing Dreams and Billy Graham. Get Terry’s recent book, 10 Publishing Myths for only $10, free shipping and bonuses worth over $200. To help writers catch the attention of editors and agents, Terry wrote his bestselling Book Proposals That $ell, 21 Secrets To Speed Your Success. His website is located at: www.terrywhalin.com. Connect with Terry on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Don't Sacrifice Quality When Writing for Kids

 

Contributed by Karen Cioffi, Children's Writer

 A while ago, I started a new children’s ghostwriting project, and the client recommended that I read a book she wanted her book to be based on.

The client raved about the picture book.

So, I bought the Kindle version and read it. 

I’ll start with the positives of the book:

1. The illustrations were colorful and fun. 

Now onto the negatives:

1. Children’s writers have a responsibility.

While the book was written to help children overcome emotional issues, it was very misleading. The character was miraculously healed in one day.

I’ve written for enough child psychologists and therapists to know that overcoming emotional issues takes time and work. It’s essential that the child and parents are aware of this.

How it should basically work: There’s a struggle. The child moves forward, then there are setbacks. The child moves further along with more setbacks, then there is forward movement, possibly with more minor setbacks, until he is finally able to handle his symptoms.

It’s not wise or professional to give children and parents false expectations.

2. There were grammatical errors, including missing periods at the end of sentences and missing quotation marks. And there were some poor word choices used.

3. The book is described as ‘lightly rhyming’. 

I’ve never heard that phrase before, and I don’t know what it’s supposed to mean.

The book was mainly rhymed, though some of the rhymes felt forced. And notice I said, “mainly rhyme.” A couple of paragraphs weren’t rhymed. I’m guessing the author couldn’t come up with a rhyme for those paragraphs, so they were simply left as they were.

Important tip: Either you rhyme right, or you shouldn’t rhyme.

4. There was a lot of telling.

Telling is when the author 'tells' the reader what's going on rather than showing it through action, dialogue, senses, and details. 

5. The formatting was off.

In a couple of spots, I had to reread the page a couple of times to make sense of it and figure out who was speaking. And page-wise, it was much shorter than a standard picture book.

There are industry standards for a reason—children’s writers should adhere to them.

6. The back cover copy wasn’t professionally written, and the sales page author info wasn’t professionally written.

SUMMING IT UP

This isn’t about 'putting down' an author’s book; it’s just that it was too easy to quickly know that this was self-published... and it was unprofessional.

That’s never a good thing. It’s these types of books that perpetuate the stigma of self-publishing.

While it’s easy to send a book out into the world, the quality of the book should never be sacrificed for the sake of speed in publication or the cost of having it professionally edited and formatted.

What I find especially disappointing is that this author, a professional in her field, has a series of children’s books.

While many authors may slack off on quality, we shouldn't let that happen when writing for children. As children’s authors, we should set the standard high… and keep it there.

The takeaway of this article is that if you’re going to self-publish a book, please take the time to do it right. Put in the time and effort, and spend the money to, at the very least, pay to have it professionally edited and properly formatted.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Karen Cioffi is an award-winning children’s author, ghostwriter, editor, and self-publisher. If you’d like to learn more about writing for children or  need help with your story, visit Writing for Children with Karen Cioffi. 

You can check out Karen’s books HERE. 

Connect with Karen on SOCIAL MEDIA. 

Use Independently Published Media to Promote Your Writing Career!

 

 

 

 

The Incredible Power of “Hidden Gems”

 

Ode to Small Magazines and Author-Published Promotions

and
A Free Model to Use for Your Own Independently Publishing
Marketing Purtsch

 

By Carolyn Howard-Johnson, multi award-winning novelist, poet, and author

of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers

 

Many of my readers have heard me talk about saving marketing time and budget dollars by using marketing campaigns aimed at related media to build networking opportunities and to query for reviews among a battery of other exposure opportunities that will nudge our book sales in other (preferred!) ways than saying “Buy my book.”

 

You even might have heard me tout “the free advertising/promotion opportunitities  made of real paper and get delivered directly to our mailboxes” as a good place for new writers on a strict budget to start that kind of campaign. You know, the kind of promotional material we have produced ourselves. The kind we can put in the hands of our readers free at our events and trade shows. 

 

Well, one such publishing effort with a twist just landed in my e-mail box in a media release. I finagled a free print copy to review so I could determine if it qualified for my top ten recommendations for a frugal but truly professional promotion. It gave me a few more ideas for using our own publishing skills to increase our exposure for whatever niche of the publishing industry our book, writing career, or even small business occupies including those of publishers, editors, writers of fiction or nonfiction in any genre, and even as projects for writers and other professional groups.

 

Don’t you dare go away. I’ll use bullets so you can see how you can use it as a model for your own project and tell you how to get a freebie so you can give yourself a break from chasing the brightest media stars that give you few results, anyway. And this one is literary so you’ll find darn good reading here which is likely to introduce you to part of our good old USA you know little or nothing about. 

 

UP Reader is named after a writer’s organization called UPPAA (Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association) in upper Michigan that happens to be a substantial literary journal like the ones so many authors submit their work to, often with few if any results. The issue I have is a concept that’s designed to: 

 

1. celebrate the 10^th Anniversary of the sponsoring writers’ group; in this case it’s the 10^th anniversary of the journal.

2. bring “Upper Michigan Literature to the World” with a “special edition honoring the Spirit of Mackinac Island.”

3.to expose more than seventy of their writers’ works to a wider audience including the extraordinary contributor/members. 

 

An anthology, UP READERS is published by Modern History Press and available as a paperback, hardcover, e-book, and audiobook. It takes only a first glance at the cover to see how to put this idea to work for your personal needs or for a literary/writing centered group you belong to.

 

Here are some of what this project achieves, but you might think of others. Each of their ten issued is different:

~It features the top 3 winning submissions to UPPAA’s Dandelion Short Story Contest that recognizes young writers from Upper Michigan area of the United States in grades 6 to 8 (Junior division) and 9 to 12 (Senior division).

~Royalties from the UP Reader supports UPPAA’s operating costs, and educational efforts like the UP Notable Books Club and Young Writers Storytelling Workshop that aim to showcase northern Michigan life from the Keweenaw to the Soo and from Menominee to Ironwood, but it could be adapted to support your career efforts no matter what they might be.

~Though it offers works and the voices of authors of this far-flung area, it is also mindful of the broad tastes for readers from speculative to historic fiction and poetry to nonfiction, thus making it great reading for naturally curious readers everywhere.

~It uses backmatter effectively including a “history” of the nine previous editions/issues of the Readers’ covers using glorious CineYooper Color. (What will you name you’re the color you use for the cover—inside, out, or both? 

~All ten can be ordered at upreader.org/comprehensive-index.

~Interested Reviewers are invited to spread the word about this anthology and the sponsoring group with its inclusive platform and open membership requirements. To receive a free paperback ARC of this newest edition contact Victor Volkman president@uppaa.org. If you haven’t time for a review, Victor also says, “…I would be happy to send a freebie of the e-book version of UP Reader Volume 1" to serve anyone anywhere!” 

§  Learn more about UPPAA and membership www.UPPAA.org. And experience a zoom keynote I did for this generous group on YouTube on great ways to avoid Imposter Syndrome and other debilitating fears like fear of marketing. (I first learned of Imposter Syndrome in Psychology Today when I was preparing a keynote sharing ways writers can avoid that condition as well as writers’ block and just plain moments of depression familiar to many who work with only a computer as a companion.) It’s one of those slick trade magazines with targeted distribution we authors love to query with our ideas for free ink mentioned in this article above!)

 

You will be adding UPR to my list "Top Ten Hidden Gems,” periodicals and others that are more accessible than the more competitive supermedia. If we never pitch our books for reviews or feature stories about ourselves as an author or some other related topic to more accessible publications, we might never get the recognition we need to succeed in our pursuits of those brighter stars and, sadly, never experience the opportunities they offer in the meantime. When we build our lists with readers and media in new regions (and among new demographics), we expand on the possibilities for own work. Sometimes we need to reread our own books in search for possible new audiences. Here are some already on my list to consider when the free copies get delivered to your USPS PO box just because you do business with them:

§  Westways, distributed free only to AAA members, lands in the mailboxes of over five million readers, far exceeding some of the more avidly pursued journals and trade magazines.

§  Sierra Club and a variety of other charities distribute beautifully designed publications you will be proud to appear in.

§  AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) sends genuinely helpful periodicals to their members in huge quantities and yes, many are made of real paper, exude bragging rights, and provide moments that inspire. You could be one of their stars.

§  The periodicals that come to us from our alma maters work the same way. (And yearbooks across the nation cater to avid local readers; you might be impressed—and surprised!—with the literature assigned to their senior-year English classes!)

§  Don’t forget to offer your talents to the free newspapers (known as throwaways!) you find stacked in racks in front of bookstores, drugstores, and our favorite restaurants.

§  The organizations that you have touched as a writer probably have online newsletters, often chock full of writing tips and writing news and might be open to featuring you and your suitable idea for a regular column or occasional article.

§  Generally we writers are curious travelers and our experiences can often relate in some way to our last book…or our next.

§  Don’t neglect possible Opinion pieces (my Los Angeles Times calls them “Voices) on the Op-Ed page. These pieces always include a byline and usually a credit line with the title of your book linked to your website.

 

MORE ABOUT TODAY’S “WritersontheMove” CONTRIBUTOR

 

 

Carolyn Howard-Johnson is a multi award-winning author of fiction and poetry but is best known for her how-to-books for writers. Find all of that series in one place on Amazon, but it’s her poetry that addresses the ills of cultures across the world. Imperfect Echoes is her Writers’ Digest honored book, self-published in the tradition of poets since the advent of the Gutenberg press, it defies #bookbigoty as well other biases we are experiencing after a period—decades—of progress on that front. Find a laudatory review by Jim Cox, editor-in-chief of The Midwest Book Review, and its Amazon buy page at  https://tinyurl.com/ImperfectEchoes.