I’m Tom Blubaugh, CEO of Common Sense Marketing Strategies, LLC and Tom Blubaugh Literary Strategist, LLC. My corporations and I are developing an online authors community–authors helping authors–a new concept for a writing community. You will be doing yourself an injustice if you don’t fully investigate this new community. We are looking for authors and writers …
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” This is a partial quote from Charles Dickens a Tale of two Cities and sounds a lot like the world of authors today. On the one hand we have access to nearly the whole world through the Internet — on the …
So many authors and writers share their struggle to find time for writing. This creative need drops by the wayside as they care for family, deal with health issues, and work full or part-time. I totally get it! Barbara, my wife, raised four children as a single parent. There were times she felt she wouldn’t make it through …
By Whitney McKendree Moore This happens to me constantly! Working with Tom Blubaugh, Literary Strategist, opened my mind about marketing, which, until I met Tom, I had considered practically a swear word. It was Tom who first suggested to me that all marketing really means is reaching out to encourage others. And when I heard …
Technology has changed the game for authors who want to sell books. No longer can you sit for hours at a table in a bookstore and wait for the crowd to find you. It’s a comfortable position, but it just isn’t happening anymore, unless you are a celebrity or sensationalist. Your book is a separate entity …
Writing a book is not for the faint of heart, but if you are called to do so, you won’t rest until it’s done. There are numerous reasons for you not to write a book. But for every reason that you come up with, there at least two reasons why you should. Here’s the top …
Does a phone app—whose chief claim to fame appears to be vaporization—offer anything to authors striving to build a solid online presence? And are there safety concerns? When Tom Blubaugh invited me to write an article about Snapchat, I decided to approach it from the point of view of authors wishing to increase our online …
Building and managing a website is a huge process. It is much more than building beautiful pages. In fact beautiful pages, in and of themselves, do not necessarily attract viewers. Beautiful pages don’t cause a viewer to take action–calls to action do. Here is a little test–what do you know about these topics? Average load …
By Whitney McKendree Moore –Guest author. ONE ANSWER: GOODREADS! When literary strategist, Tom Blubaugh, suggested joining Goodreads Dot Com, I was reluctant. The last thing I felt I needed was yet another learning curve on yet another website. I was already feeling somewhat overwhelmed by all the social networks in which I was participating. Today, I …
The answer to this million dollar question has often been shadowed by e-book sales that, until recently, were the preferred method of reading a book. As long as we have libraries, coffee shops, and bookstores, there will always be book signings. Authors, just have to change their marketing strategy to be competitive in the current marketplace. Here are …