500 BOOKS TO BE WON IN 300 DAYS - WEEK 32 WINNERS
I've been running this weekly competition on my Facebook fan page all year, and it'll run into 2012. Each week all year I've been giving away three of my trilogies and quartets, signed, except for breaks where I've given away two iPad 2s.Total number of books won so far: 356.To enter, go here, http://www.facebook.com/ianirvine.author, Like my page then enter from the Promos…
On Reading Like a Writer – Claire Corbett
Claire Corbett has worked as a government policy adviser on water, genetically modified organisms and child and family health. She has had essays and stories broadcast on Radio National and published in Cinema Papers, Picador New Writing and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others. She completed the MA Writing (UTS) in 1997 and a Varuna Mentorship in 2000. When We Have Wings, her first novel, was published…
On Reading Like a Writer – Claire Corbett
Claire Corbett has worked as a government policy adviser on water, genetically modified organisms and child and family health. She has had essays and stories broadcast on Radio National and published in Cinema Papers, Picador New Writing and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others. She completed the MA Writing (UTS) in 1997 and a Varuna Mentorship in 2000. When We Have Wings, her first novel, was published…
Reaching your Readers Part 3 – New Authors
In Part 2 of this series, http://www.ian-irvine.com/reaching-your-readers-part-2-reaching-your-fans/, I asked my Facebook fans and readers how they found out about their favourite authors' next books.I also asked my fans what factors led them to choose a new author. There were 66 replies. The most important factors in the decision to choose a new author's book were:The cover, back cover and blurb, and first few…
Reaching your Readers Part 2 – Reaching Your Fans
Following on from Part 1 of this post, http://www.ian-irvine.com/reaching-your-readers-part-1/, I asked this question on my Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/ianirvine.author.How do you find out about your favourite author’s next book? Bookshops? Personal recommendations? Book reviews? Author's web site? Author's social media presence, on Facebook or blogs or Twitter or GoodReads? Author newsletters? Publisher's sites? Advertising?There have been 50 responses so far (note,…