With the new levels of innovation and creativity mankind has reached, there is no better time to learn about Blockchain and Bitcoin than today. Both have potential to transform your world as a technical, business, or fiction writer, or as a business person. As a consumer, you will be empowered by the millions of applications,
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What’s In a Brand Name?
by Gordon Warnock, co-founding partner at Fuse Literary If it takes five books to establish a brand, how can you convey a clear author brand before you’ve published your first novel? Find out from agent Gordon Warnock! And take a peek inside the brand of million-copy-selling women’s suspense author Kerry Lonsdale…both past speakers at SFWC!
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Are You Listening? Audiobooks and Podcasts are More Popular Than Ever
When you’re first trying to break into publishing, you are thinking about a printed novel or possibly an ebook, but the big bucks in publishing these days is coming from audiobooks. And podcasts are a great way to build a fan base and author brand. The sales numbers on audiobooks just continue to accelerate. More
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Podcast: Rusty Sheldon talks about Digital Marketing and Building an Authors Brand
For many years, Zilker Media’s Rusty Shelton has helped bestsellers and debut authors alike build their author brand and ramp up their online image so they can sell more books. Listen in as Rusty tells Alex White all about digital marketing and brand building for today’s authors. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sfwriters/Shelton_Podcast_5.31.19.mp3
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Podcast: Author Ransom Stephens Interviews Literary Agent, Paul Stevens
Ever wanted to find out what a day in the life of a busy literary agent is like? Well listen and learn as Ransom Stephens interviews Paul Stevens, an agent at the Donald Maas Literary agency in New York. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sfwriters/Paul_Stevens_Podcast_5.17.19.mp3
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SFWC and Mechanics Institute at the Bay Area Book Festival 2019
The San Francisco Writers Conference shared a booth with Mechanics Institute Library at the Bay Area Book Festival this past weekend. Barb and Rich Santos of SFWC, Taryn Edwards and Heather Terrell of MIL, and volunteers Robert McAdams and Simona Carini had a great time talking about our conferences and the joint MIL-SFWC year-round classes
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