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Facebook Fan Page

I just put together a Facebook fan page for Author Neil D. Ostroff. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Facebook-Page-of-Author-Neil-D-Ostroff/124794694205967?sk=info

I sent out a bunch of notices through social marketing and guess what? I already have almost 2,000 likes. The internet is just amazing! Anyway, I’ve got everything in place for my winter marketing blitz. I’ve got…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on December 20, 2011 at 12:50pm — No Comments

It’s done! I’ve just put money into promotion.

It’s done! I’ve just put money into promotion. A pretty good chunk, actually. I’m starting with Kindle Nation Daily site. I’ve done some research and heard a lot of positive things about this site and what it can do for your sales. They even have a statistics page that shows you all the books whose ranking went down after placing ads. I signed up for two campaigns. One, the bigger one, won’t start until March, which is fine because hopefully there’ll be many more Kindle owners by then. The…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on December 16, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

Going for it!!

My brother sent me an article the other day that inspired me beyond belief. I’ll attach it at the end of this post. Basically, it’s the story of a self-published success. I know, I know, I’ve read a thousand of them, also. But this one struck me different, mainly because this author did everything I have done to market and promote with one exception. She used the pay promotion on her sites and I have not. See, I’ve been mistakenly foolish with my numbers. I was putting book sales in…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on December 13, 2011 at 10:02am — No Comments

Love the interview!

Been doing the interview thing a lot lately and I think it’s starting to pay off. Not only does my name come up more often in search engines but I’m noticing visits to my blog and website are increasing. Of course, this could also be the result of my article experiment, which I’m waiting for the final stats. Speaking of my Author’s Den website, I recently signed on with GoDaddy to build a website myself that I can update, and let me tell you, it’s not nearly as easy as they claim. I spent…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on December 10, 2011 at 10:06am — No Comments

Writing is easy

 

Do you know if you write a page a day that within one year you will have written a book? How many times have I heard that one? If that one book takes a year to write then the revision process would have to take many years. Truth is, writing a first draft is the easy part. I can usually belt one out in a few months. But the revision; forgetta’bout it. That’s the time consuming stuff, though I am getting better at it as I get older (and hopefully wiser). I’m also getting better as a…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on December 7, 2011 at 12:05pm — No Comments

Getting it done.

 

Hit 6,000 words today on my new novel. It's an easy and exciting write because anything can happen in a world that isn't real. I see the book getting a little deep in the philosophical area once the characters begin to realize the nature of their existences and how it all could just disappear. We'll see where the story takes me. Right now, I'm still developing characters and relationships and setting the scene for a wild ride through the possible and impossible.

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Added by Neil Ostroff on December 6, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Starting a new book

As some of you know I started a new book a few days ago. The title is IMAGINATION and it’s the wildest concept I’ve had yet. Here’s the preliminary tagline: (What if everything around us, our friends, our surroundings, the universe, what if all we experience is just a figment of someone’s imagination? And what if that someone is dying?) I’m very excited about this one as I’ve been thinking about this possibility for a long time. The book will be written in the style of one of my earlier…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on December 5, 2011 at 9:25am — No Comments

Shot in the Dark!

Okay, well… here it is. The $55 article written for me. Now,

the next step is the company will send this to three hundred article submission

services, and people, and companies looking for content. My Blog address and

Author’s Den address will be attached to the article so readers can connect

with me. I reset my site stats to zero and will closely monitor that over the

next ten days (the run I was promised). I average about twenty-five bio hits a

day on my AD site and…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on December 1, 2011 at 2:23pm — No Comments

Sacrifices made

It’s raining today. Drops slide down my window like translucent

snails. Water puddles in the street. Worms

tunnel up from drowning liquid and sprawl across the sidewalk. And here I sit

in front of my computer belting out another novel. I forget who said it, but I

remember a quote that summed up the writing life completely. The quote went

simply; being a writer is like having homework every day for the rest of your

life. And that’s true for the serious, passionate…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on November 29, 2011 at 12:51pm — No Comments

Infinite sales!

I just did something that I’ve never done before. Something

I ignorantly hoped to avoid but always knew would happen. I just paid hard

earned dough to promote my books. Well, not my books individually, but my blog

and author’s site. I signed up for two marketing ideas that I believe may

actually work. I also have a third PR person in line to do search engine

optimization. Who would have thought being a writer and selling books could get

so complicated. The first site…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on November 27, 2011 at 11:45am — 2 Comments

Starting a new novel

It’s happened! I’ve finished a new book (DREAM TRAVELER) and

it’s about to go live. So, what do I do now? Well, besides all the marketing

and promotion I’m planning in the coming weeks, it’s time to start a new novel.

I’ve had this one simmering in my brain for a long time; about thirty years.

What’s it about? Well, I learned long ago not to talk-out a book before you’ve

put it to page, but I have come up with a tagline. ‘You and me and the world we

live in is nothing…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on November 26, 2011 at 8:28am — No Comments

Writing and the holidays

Happy Thanksgiving to all! That said, I have to tell you

that since I’m in the service industry, I work every Thanksgiving. So today,

black Friday, is my day to celebrate. Oh it’ll be a hoot. Got the family coming

over, got friends of the kids stopping by, got lots of food and drink. By the

time most of you read this I’m going to be knee-deep in overindulgence. But for

now, I must write. This post is only the beginning of about two hours I’ve set

aside this morning to…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on November 25, 2011 at 8:47am — No Comments

Marrying a writer

So, you married yourself a writer, eh? You bought into the

romantic notion of the two of you sitting fireside, you drinking a glass of

pinot noir while your significant other sits beside you writing the next great

American novel. The only sound is the crackling fire and the tapping of their

keyboard. Every once in a while your significant other looks up from their

masterpiece and flashes you a smile that makes you feel like you’re the most

special person in the world.…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on November 22, 2011 at 1:06pm — No Comments

Greatest feeling ever!

Got a new book coming out next week and I must say it’s a

great feeling. Not because I finished another book, but because I finished a

book that I started writing in 1997. As I slowly weed through more than two

decades of manuscripts, there’s a certain joy that comes each time one is

finally declared “finished”. Even as I re-read the manuscript for the

thousandth time, I could still picture myself fourteen years ago, sitting

upstairs in my sweltering bedroom…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on November 21, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

New Interview!

Please check out my latest interview.

http://susanwhitfield.blogspot.com/2011/11/neil-ostroffs-insectland.html

 

 

Added by Neil Ostroff on November 17, 2011 at 1:56pm — No Comments

Reason to write

Home from vacation and looking forward to working sixty

hours in the next six days… not! There are many reasons why people attempt to,

or actually do, write a book. Some are for purely egotistical reasons: money,

fame, the adulation of pretty girls and boys. Some people write books because

they feel they have a story to tell the world, whether it’s fiction or

non-fiction. Some people write stories purely for the joy, and care little if

no one else but family members…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on November 10, 2011 at 1:32pm — No Comments

Writing and fishing

I’m sitting on the dock this morning, my fishing rod baited

with a shrimp and hoping to catch some lunch when a strange thought occurred to

me. Fishing and becoming a successful author are similar activities. Except

when you’re fishing, you use bait to catch stuff and when you’re a writer you

use your books to try and catch something, that something being an agent,

publisher, or audience. The analogy expounds even further. With fishing, the

quality of bait is…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on November 5, 2011 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Environment and inspiration

As readers of my blog know, I am currently on vacation in the Florida Keys while my step-kids are at our house up north. The Keys is and was home to many famous artists and writers including its most notable resident, Earnest Hemmingway. Hemmingway lived and fished here, and wrote some of his most memorable novels in this tropical paradise. So, how has my own writing been going? I must admit the scenery is breathtaking and watching the sunsets really does get the creative juices flowing. But…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on November 4, 2011 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Vacation+no marketing=little sales

As I write this I am on vacation. Yes, vacation. That

magical two weeks a year when you leave your cares behind and head off into the

sunset. In my case, this is Key West Florida. It’s beautiful! Right now it’s 82

degrees and sunny with low humidity. I watched the recent snowstorm in the

northeast on television and thanked my lucky stars that I left Pennsylvania two

days before it hit. I do write on vacation, usually in the morning before the

high heat of the day sets…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on November 2, 2011 at 12:55pm — No Comments

Websites all writers should be on





I’ve been doing a lot of marketing/promotion lately for my

books and have come up with a “must-be-on” list for writers who want to promote

their books. These website provide free services that can really get your books

noticed. There are many other sites out there but I highly recommend you

concentrate your marketing efforts on these. Did I mention that they are…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on October 25, 2011 at 9:04am — No Comments

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