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If you are a novelist, novel publisher, or novel reader, here's a group where you can share more info, discuss strategies, and create partnerships.

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51 Ways to Blog as a Novelist

We all know that blogging is one of the best ways to get attention in today's Internet world. A blog is a godsend to your website, bringing it traffic, fans, and more. But you have to post regularly.

Stuck for what to blog about? Here are some tips for novelists, but the same tips can apply to writers of nonfiction, memoirs, children's books, business books, and more.

  1. Review other novels, especially from other lesser-known novelists.
  2. Write a blog post using the voice of one of your main characters.
  3. Have that main character tell some side stories not included in the novel.
  4. Write about the setting - time and/or place. Use some of the research you did to ensure that your novel was accurate.
  5. Invite your readers to review your book. Feature their testimonials on your blog.
  6. Interview some of your readers: via Q&A text or via an Internet radio show or via a teleseminar.
  7. Podcast your book, one section at a time.
  8. Write about trends in your genre.
  9. Write about your favorite novelists, especially those that write in your genre. Include their photos and a sampling of their books.

For the rest of the 51 ways, see: http://blog.bookmarket.com/2011/06/45-ways-to-blog-as-novelist-tips-for.html

If you like this list, help me add more. Email: johnkremer@bookmarket.com.

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Comment by Karen Pierce Gonzalez on April 6, 2009 at 12:26pm
Kristin!
Congratulations! So glad you were honored for your accomplishment...
Comment by Gladys Hobson on April 4, 2009 at 1:00pm
What a wonderful experience.
Comment by Kristin Callender on April 4, 2009 at 12:43pm
Hi everyone. I had a great signing on Thursday night. A book club that read it came and we had a great talk about it. It is so nice to have people there that read it and had questions and comments about the characters. A few women said that it would make a great Lifetime movie. They said they were afraid to say it at first, thought I would be offended. I laughed and said I would be honored if someone wanted to make it a puppet show! A lifetime movie would be BIG TIME! The librarian was amazing too. She was the one who brought my book up to her book club. Then she brought me flowers to the signing. I don't think I can top this signing. Just wanted to share the good news with everyone. I wish all of you the best on your successes.
Smiling Still,
Kristin Callender
The Truth Lies in the Dark
Comment by Gladys Hobson on April 4, 2009 at 1:06am
Hi Karen
What inspires you when writing novels?
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Comment by Karen Pierce Gonzalez on April 3, 2009 at 5:00pm
Hi Everyone! This appears to be a very active group. Am looking forward to being a member.
Best, Karen
Comment by Gladys Hobson on April 2, 2009 at 9:01am
'Close to home' so right!
One of my novels is so close to home (the setting is here and it is about the love life of an elderly couple) that I published it in a pen name, lest the local residents called me Alice and my hubby, Roger!
I am presently writing (on my Wrinkly Writer blog) about an embarrassing experience I had concerning a chat show I was invited to, where Robert Kilroy-Silk had a few words to say about it. If only the book had been in print at that time, it would have sold like hot cakes. I am about to write the last of five short posts about it. www,gladyshobson.wordpress.com should anyone be interested. As all my books, the first two chapters are on my Magpies Nest Publishing web site. (The chapters have had editing since then)
Comment by Laurel-Rain Snow on April 2, 2009 at 8:38am
Wow, this is so cool! I have also experienced my characters leading me down one road or another...they seem to be in control. As for emotional experiences -- the first novel I wrote ("Miles to Go") derived its core from my own personal history, and I began it after a wrenching loss. I wrote until I began to feel catharsis, then put it away for more than a decade. When I returned to it, I had enough distance to see the path more clearly. Even then, after finishing first, second and third drafts, I could not bring myself to publish it until I had already brought three other novels to life! It was that personally evocative for me. "Web of Tyranny," my fifth novel, and the one I wrote fourth, is also close to home for me.
Comment by Gladys Hobson on April 2, 2009 at 8:31am
We're a weepy lot, aren't we!
Comment by Jennifer Robins on April 2, 2009 at 8:19am
I know how that is, Gladys. In my Book, Ghostly Antiques, I took my main character through the death and funeral of her husband and I not only cried when writing it, but so many who read it told me they cried as well.
 

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