Lorraine M Harris

How to keep your marketing plan simple. Developing a marketing plan can be overwhelming. Keep it simple to ensure that you will have a plan. It's as simple as the following: 1. What strategies do you want to implement? 2. How much time are you willing to spend on marketing? 3. How much money do you have to spend on marketing? 4. When will you start your marketing plan? 5. How will you track your progress? #marketingplan #sellingbooks

It's essential to market, promote and sell your book(s). Below are some suggestions to help you write your marketing plan. 1. Write the marketing plan in a notebook or computer. 2. Set a budget. 3. Decide on the strategies to implement. 4. Date to start your marketing plan. 5. Do not try and implement every strategy. 6. Make the time to market strategies 7. Track what marketing strategies are working. 8. Realize that your plan is a work in progress. #marketing #promiot

How do you become a successful author. It took me awhile to understand what it takes to sell your books. When my first book was published I wish someone had told me what it meant to promote, market and sell your book. No matter how your book is published--traditional or self-published--the author is responsibility for marketing his/her book. Marketing is so important and this is what I suggest to any author with a published book. 1. Develop a marketing plan. 2. Determine how

When I was growing up I was told to find another career because authors did not make money. Besides not making money, writers need to know the following: 1. Have a comfortable chair. 2. Take time to exercise. Every hour, take a break, walk or stretch. 3. Do not be discouraged when you sit before your computer, typewriter or notebook for hours, waiting for creativity to kick in. 4. Develop a thick skin because everyone has an opinion about your writing style or storytelli

1. Accept all critique and say thank you. Recognize that this is your book and not all comments are useful. Accept, or reject what you think might help your book. 2. Don’t let negative feedback keep you from reaching your goal of writing your book. 3. Accept all feedback, graciously because not everyone will like your book. 4. To produce your book you must be disciplined—that means writing every day. 5. Take responsibility for marketing, promoting, and selling your book. 6. B

I get asked all the time, how do I get started if I want to write. I have no magic words but I do have some suggestions. 1.Why do you want to write--passion or hobby or you have a story you want to tell? 2. What's the story you want to tell and why? 3. Whose your audience--who would be interested in reading your story? 4. Is your story fiction or nonfiction? 6. Is your story a memoir? 7. Can you make the time to write? 8. Can you accept feedback--the good and the bad and make