Author, Jody Hedlund

Around cyberland writers are busy building their platforms. They’re working at gaining name recognition, support, followers, and ultimately ...

Whether it’s the number of followers we have on our blogs or twitter, the number comments or retweets, or our Amazon rankings or Nielsen Boo...

Let’s be honest. All of us want to increase our numbers to one degree or another. When our followings go up, we gain satisfaction in knowing...

At some point in our writing careers, most of us will feel the pressure to blog. I’m not really sure where that pressure comes from. Maybe t...

Why are you using social media sites? Obviously, some writers use blogging, twitter, and facebook for fun and nothing more. But a large ma...

Does marketing via social media outlets really help sell more books? Writers are spending time on Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and other intern...

I had a painful sore throat that lingered for weeks. I was exhausted. My children had one illness after another—croup, bronchitis, the stoma...

Writers are expected to help in the promotion of their books. In the age of “Books-a-Million” why wouldn’t we want to make all the effort we...

I admit. I'm the first to copy a good idea when I see one--or at least think I should copy it. When a few blogging friends were making ...

Everywhere we turn we find advice about what we should do to market ourselves and our books. Some of it's confusing, even contradictory....

From all of your comments in the last couple of posts, I think we all agree authors can benefit from beginning to build their platforms bef...

Platform didn't help me get a book contract. The story and writing clinched the deal. However, we will need a platform at some point--...

If we read agent blogs long enough, we're sure to come across the word "platform." According to my wonderful and lovely agent,...

Let's get back to the question we asked at the beginning of the week. How do we balance blogging and writing? We've realized we can...

Yesterday we talked about the fact that agents and editors are putting more and more importance on blogging and other internet connections a...

So how much time does everyone REALLY spend on blogging compared to writing? The tug of war was won by writing. Many of you mentioned spend...