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Pinterest Marketing for Authors: 7 Tips for Using Pinterest in your Author Platform

7 Comments / Author Platform, Pinterest Marketing / Naomi D Nakashima

Are you using Pinterest as part of your author platform? If you’re not, then you really should be! Pinterest marketing itself is one of the more powerful forms of marketing today; but Pinterest marketing for authors completely changes the game. People tend to think of Pinterest as a place to look for recipes and craft […]

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The Stigma of Self-Published Authors

5 Comments / Writing Nonfiction / Naomi D Nakashima

There’s a bit of a stigma of self-published authors — I’m sure you’ve seen it around in various groups. And it’s this stigma, I believe, that causes so many people to say “book deal or bust.” As a ghostwriter and editor, I have helped several clients and authors publish their books. Some have gone traditional publishing,

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Not your Typical “What not to do on Social Media” Post

3 Comments / Author Platform, Marketing / Naomi D Nakashima

It seems like everywhere you go online, there is another author, social media expert, or marketing guru telling you what not to do on social media. I just did several searches using Google trying to find exactly what’s out there for “social media marketing for authors” and “social marketing best practices” and several searches in between. And

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5 Steps to Marketing Yourself as a Freelance Writer

Freelance Writing, Marketing / Naomi D Nakashima

Freelance writing is definitely not what it used to be. Once upon a time, the freelance writer was the expert. The highly trained, highly skilled, and highly paid expert that businesses of all sizes sought out when they wanted the best. It wasn’t unheard of for a freelance writer to rake in hundreds or thousands

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4 Amazing Writing Tips Writers Should Stop Listening To

2 Comments / Writing a Book, Writing Fiction, Writing Nonfiction / Naomi D Nakashima

The world is filled with excellent writing advice. Write every day, write to make an impact, even write for yourself. But there are also a lot of amazing writing tips that are complete bogus. When I first got into writing, I admit, I fell for the old “write what you know” scam. I fell for

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Are Freelance Bidding Sites the Empowering Solution They Claim to Be for 2021?

Freelance Writing / Naomi D Nakashima

Freelance bidding sites promise writers empowerment and the ability to start a writing career, but is that really what they offer? It seems as though these sites are always at the center of controversy in the freelance writing world. On the one hand, they take a bit of the risk out of launching a new

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Points of View: How to write from the perspective of another gender

Characters, Writing a Book, Writing Fiction / Naomi D Nakashima

No matter what genre you’re writing, if you’re writing fiction chances are at some point in time you have to write from the perspective of another gender. Okay, I grant you there may be some circumstances in which you don’t have to bother with it. Perhaps you’re writing a science fiction or fantasy novel set

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