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How do we discover what to read? Post at Authors Electric
Posted by rozmorris @NailYourNovel @ByRozMorris in Book marketing, self-publishing on February 20, 2013
Sorry, you got two trailer posts from me today. It’s my turn at Authors Electric, where I’m wondering how relevant SEO is for fiction writers and readers.
It all started when I saw a link to a post on Problogger which advised bloggers to stop running guest posts with a lot of links because of new Google algorithms. Undercover Soundtrack host, please note. This led to a fun, fulminating conversation with Facebook friends Cyd Madsen, Vivienne Tuffnell and Beth Rudetsky about tails wagging dogs. But getting our work discovered is a real issue for writers, and at Authors Electric I’m wondering how that’s done. Come over and join the debate.
(Thanks for the pic Daveynin)
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- Rejections, stories from real life and … stories – at Hampton Reviews
- Serialising my novel helped me raise my game – at Tuesday Serial
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- Should you serialise your novel on Kindle? at Jane Friedman's blog
- The A303: a storyteller's road
- The making of a novel
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- Writing a blurb for a rather 'difficult' book – at Jami Gold's
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- The day I broke an ESP experiment
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- Why I'm self-publishing – guest post at Catherine, Caffeinated
- Should you serialise your novel on Kindle? at Jane Friedman's blog
- Serialising my novel helped me raise my game – at Tuesday Serial
- Writing a blurb for a rather 'difficult' book – at Jami Gold's
- Getting readers to fill in the blanks – at KM Weiland's Wordplay

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- Rejections, stories from real life and … stories – at Hampton Reviews
- The making of a novel
- Wielding the writing sword at Dragonfly Scrolls
- Writing literary fiction – discussion with Joanna Penn
- Visions of the future – at Potomac Review
- Everything – interviewed by Chila Woychik of Port Yonder Press
- Underwater futures – at Underground Book Reviews
- The day I broke an ESP experiment
- Why writers should be readers – at Joe Bunting's blog

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