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The Midwest Book Review is run by editor-in-chief Jim Cox. Established in 1976 to help promote literacy, library usage and small press publishing.MBR started as a one hour weekly radio show on WORT-FM and debuted as a weekly 30 minute television show called Bookwatch on WYOU-TV, in Madison, Wisconsin. Now,

Join the 10th Annual AuthorYOU Extravaganza in Denver, ColoradoPre Extravaganza April 8Extravaganza April 9-10REGISTER NOW FOR THE April 2022 IN-PERSON CONFERENCEThe Extravaganza celebrates Craft, Publishing, and Community for all authors and writers for over a decade. FINALLY, we can gather IN-PERSON next month. Attendees will join with presenters and fellow authors for this

Are Your Social Media Profiles Fresh or Stale?Most authors create the “descriptive social media Profiles in two ways:Using a name that doesn’t connect with their readersNot thinking strategically and not thinking of marketing or branding. And, boring.Stop. Your “Handle” and Profiles are essential for SEO purposes as well as possible

Good Authoring Day to YOU … … And Happy Saturday and NEW YEAR to you!Today is the first day for the Publishing at Sea adventure. Joining me are 25 mateys … and I’m so glad to be in the sun for eight days. And for me, it means no snow

Author and Writing ImmersionLast weekend found me immersed … and absorbed in art. An art form that I hadn’t experienced to the level before. Last year, I had bought tickets for the Van Gogh Immersion Experience, tucked them away, and was reminded on Friday that my Sunday slot was surfacing.

In a fast hour, Kathy Meis, the founder of Bublish, shares a whirlwind of catchup strategies and tips for authors in moving forward this year. Your takeaways include:· how to increase your marketing influence with Bublish tool· how to use a book bubble· how to optimize book product changes· how the pandemic changed how

Hashtags Can Be the Author’s #1 Best Social Media Friend If you are not using hashtags in your blogs, articles, and your social media postings, you are making a major blunder in your searchability when posting on anything social media. Not using hashtags regularly is a major blunder that most

Author Smarts: The Power of “Re”As last year came to an end, I started my simmering process. A noodling of what I imagined I wanted to do going forward for The Book Shepherd and for me personally. I know that I have The Author’s Walk on my writing calendar with

Author Marketing Blunders …Not Using Ninja Strategies to Push Your Social Media OutSOMETIMES, AUTHORS MIX UP their priorities. Maybe they think they can “do it all” … you can’t. Stop it. It’s time to morph your thinking and your actions when it comes to social media posting.When it comes to

Audiobooks are leading the publishing industry in terms of growth and smart authors and publishers are getting into the game as quickly as they can. But most find there is a lot more to producing and marketing audio than they thought before getting into it. Much of it is different