How to Make a Video Using Canva

Hi SErs! Harmony here 😁 Today, I have another Canva tutorial for you. This one is all about using Canva to make a free and easy video, which you can use for all sorts of promotional purposes ... including a book promo trailer. For this tutorial, I'm using Canva online rather than my App on …

Engaging With Your Readers

Hey, SE Readers. Joan with you today. In my last post, I wrote about essentials for your author website. Today, let’s talk about engaging with your readers. We work hard to build our blog readership, which we hope will lead to people purchasing our books. There are no hard and fast rules, and you’re probably …

Five Tips to Feel Better About Writing Angst

Pixabay Image Hi, SEers.  John, with you today. I was reading a few Facebook and Twitter feeds the other day and was quite surprised to find several writers talking about how discouraged they are with their writing. It almost seemed that I was wading through a locust storm of dissatisfied folks. Maybe it was just …

Building a Local Readership – #PublicSpeaking #Marketing

Book Signing Party, Enterprise Museum, January 25, 2020 Hi, Everyone! Marcia here again. Hope this finds each of you safe, healthy, and happy for this first week in August.   Today, I want to chat a bit about my favorite way to get your books in front of more readers, always a thorny problem for …

A Different Approach to Social Media

Greetings to all the Story Empire readers today. I'm posting late since I appear to be lost in some sort of time warp from finishing up a manuscript revision. My apologies for the delay today. September begins several months of higher books sales and many authors are working now on more active approaches to promotion. …