A Personal Publishing Story by Johanna Baker-Dowdell
I’m pleased to bring you a guest post by Johanna Baker-Dowdell of Strawberry Communications. Johanna and I connected online while she was in the process of funding her book for self-publishing. I...
View ArticleCLICK on KIDS: APA Children’s Digital Publishing Seminar
The Australian Publishers Association put on another great Industry Seminar with CLICK on KIDS: Children’s Digital Publishing Seminar. You can see the entire outline here but on this post I am...
View ArticleCLICK on KIDS: Transmedia, Augmented Reality and Education
In my previous post about The Australian Publishers Association Industry Seminar CLICK on KIDS: Children’s Digital Publishing Seminar I focussed on the presentation by Kristen McLean of Bookigee. It’s...
View ArticleQR Codes Tell The Story
Imagine strolling around a new city with a map (printed or available as a PDF) that allowed you to access stories related to the area you are exploring? But not just a story. Each QR code will take you...
View ArticleAuthors and promotion – Open Access (Part 1)
It was an invigorating day at the New South Wales Writers’ Centre for their day-long symposium Open Access – Selling Your Book in the Digital Age. Thanks to the Copyright Agency (CAL) for their support...
View ArticleAuthors and promotion – Open Access (Part 2)
I took so many notes at Open Access at the New South Wales Writers’ Centre for their day-long symposium I’ve had to publish a few posts! You can read Part 1 here. Authors know they need to participate...
View ArticleDIY Digital at NSW Writers’ Centre
The wonderful people at the NSW Writers’ Centre are running a weekend workshop that I’m thrilled to be part of! Join us for Digital DIY on the weekend of Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 November and hear...
View ArticleMy first job in book publishing
(This post really should be subtitled ‘How Bloomsbury Publishing marketed a title so well that I was compelled to write about it!’ Read on and you’ll understand why.) My publisher Charlotte Harper of...
View ArticleAuthors and the Marketing Conundrum
Authors and the Marketing Conundrum For a little while I’ve been thinking of writing a series of posts on book marketing for authors. It’s something all authors need to think about and is crucial to...
View ArticleAuthors experimenting with Marketing and Pricing Models
My discovery of Even the Red Heron was a Social Discovery – a professional contact on a list shared a photo of the poster promoting the book from his neighbourhood in Brooklyn, USA. He was interested –...
View ArticleBooktastik and Indie Author Promotion
Interview with author Dionne Lister Today on the blog I am featuring Dionne Lister who has had fantastic success as an independent author and has her finger on the pulse on what influences sales. I...
View ArticleMeeting the Smashwords Marketing Director
Jim Azevedo is the Marketing Director of Smashwords, and was in Sydney for the Romance Writers Conference, and then on his way to New Zealand for The Romance Writers Conference in Auckland and a host...
View ArticleIt’s been a while….
Hello to all those kind enough to subscribe, still, to this badly neglected blog! Sometimes in life, you have to make choices about where your efforts are focussed, and it was time for me to take a...
View ArticleSelf-publishing Q&A with Sue Liu, Accidental Aid Worker – Part One
I’m pleased to welcome to the Digireado blog Sue Liu. Sue Liu is a first time author and self-publisher. At the end of 2015, Sue self-published her memoir Accidental Aid Worker. We first met at NSW...
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