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happy friends hugging each other — Some blogs (like this one) accept content from guest writers. Guest posts give the blog’s readers a fresh voice and allow the writer to reach new people. Share some of your strengths as a writer by writing content for other people’s blogs. Don’t forget to leave at least one link […]

Platform Building: Try guest posting

22nd October 2022 in Platform Building Prompts tagged Author Platform / blogging by Matthew Brown

If you decided to go platform building alone and run your own WordPress blog, here are ten plugins that may be very useful to you. All the plugins listed are available to Author Buzz bloggers. 1. Redirection Redirection is a great little plugin for taking care of permalink changes and […]

7 WordPress plugin recommendations for authors

16th December 2020 in Blogs and blogging tagged blogging / plugins / WordPress by Matthew Brown

reading books — Your book has just been published and now you face the question of how to get readers. We look at some of the ways authors get readers.

Seven secrets of how new books get readers

26th June 2018 in Sell more books tagged Author Platform / books / groups / press releases / readers / SEO / Twitter by Matthew Brown

Blogging is not easy – especially if you want to use it to sell books – but these advanced blogging tips for successful authors should help you sell more books with your blog. First, what is a successful blog? These days, successful authors are usually blogging authors but having a […]

12 Advanced blogging tips for successful authors

18th April 2018 in Blogs and blogging tagged blogging / books / fans / readers / sales / social media / success / traffic by Matthew Brown

Blog — Most author blogs are abject failures as far as marketing and promotion are concerned. This is actually great news for you because it means, if you get the basics right, the competition will be scarce. Why author blogs fail As far as I can tell, there are three common reasons […]

A Definitive Guide on How to Start Blogging as an ...

27th February 2018 in Blogs and blogging tagged Author Platform / blogging / guide by Matthew Brown

bionic hand and human hand finger pointing — Recently I grilled ChatGPT about what it would take to be a full-time author and writer in the UK. A lot of what the AI said was common sense. It sounded right although you should probably do your own homework as ChatGPT is very good at being confidently wrong. My […]

Everything you need to know about being a UK author ...

8th May 2023 in Advice tagged Author Platform / blogging / ChatGPT / demographics / guide / hard work / ideas / networking / questions / readers / sell more books / social media / success / technology by Matthew Brown

For us authors, our biggest and most important brand is our own name. That means when people Google us, the first result should be our own. Let us take a look at how you get content about your name to the top of the search results for your name. 1. […]

Getting your name out there as an author

15th November 2020 in Publicity tagged Author Platform / name / self-promotion by Matthew Brown

Comments: Author Buzz UK — The often-repeated fear is that comment control – the removing comments that you don’t want on your blog – is somehow the same as censorship. This is not only untrue but potentially damaging to your platform. What is freedom of speech anyway? If your blog has ever been visited by […]

Comment control is not the same as censorship

11th September 2019 in Blogs and blogging tagged censorship / comments / community / freedom of speech by Matthew Brown

Fireworks — Do you want to know what works better than a press release? If you answered no, you are probably on the wrong website. For everyone else, keep reading. Press releases are okay. Sometimes, when you have something that captures people’s interest, they are amazing. Mose of the time they are […]

Better than a press release

4th May 2019 in Publicity tagged blogs / payment / press release by Matthew Brown

money — There is a worrying trend in the UK where publishers have started to demand that authors hand over all moral rights to a work. Your moral rights include the right to be known as the author of your work. Writer Joanne Harris points out on her Tumblr blog that the […]

The worrying trend of selling your moral rights

7th August 2018 in Business tagged David Vaver / income / Joanne Harris / moral rights / Oxford University Press / Patsy Collins / publisher / rights / Tara Westgate / TI Media / Woman's Weekly by Matthew Brown

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle — The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a new release by first-time author Stuart Turton. Here at Author Buzz UK, we love seeing new authors getting into print. Which is why we are excited by the news of first-time author Stuart Turton’s book. Readers that pay very close attention will know that I […]

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

3rd February 2018 in Love Books tagged Author / debut novel / murder / new release / novel / Stuart Turton by Matthew Brown

Blog — As authors, we are inclined to think that we know how to write – the truth is most author blogs fail. The fact is most people will not see the end of your article and a lot of people will never scroll at all. That means that you must get […]

Why author blogs fail

18th December 2017 in Blogs and blogging tagged Author Platform / blogging / blogs / guide by Matthew Brown