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Monthly archives: February 2018

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

blow your own trumpet — Writing a page with a title of “Why I am wonderful” can be hard for some authors but if you are going to set up a platform then you need to do a good job of this. The page itself might be called “about the author”, or simple, “about”. Whatever title you […]

Why I am wonderful

23rd February 2018 in Becoming an author tagged Author Platform / blog / guide / hello world / I am wonderful by Matthew Brown

Facebook toxic — Social media – like Facebook and Twitter – help authors but we need to periodically detox Facebook to get the best out of it. Recently, I took my Facebook account through a detox and I was amazed at how much more productive I was able to become. As a side […]

Detox Facebook to become a better writer

12th February 2018 in Social Media tagged detox / distractions / Facebook / motivation / social media by Matthew Brown

We have finished polishing the blog sign up process and Author Buzz UK is now ready for community creation. Today two new features have been open to the public. User blogs and group creation. Groups Groups allow you to create a mini community. You can create groups about whatever you […]

Group and blog registration is live

8th February 2018 in Author Buzz tagged beginnings / blogging / blogs / community / groups by Matthew Brown

empty chair — Who would miss you? If your blog was deleted tomorrow and you and all your books were replaced by pod people, who would notice? Thanet Creative have told us that we are in the middle of Doppelganger Week. (I know because I wrote the post). That got me thinking – if […]

Who would miss you when you are gone?

7th February 2018 in Advice tagged Author Platform / people / pod people / questions / Thanet Creative Writers 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