How Travel Writers Self-Publish Jay Artale
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Are you thinking about writing a travel guide, travel memoir, or other travel-related book? We share tips, strategies, and inspiration to help you: write, plan, self-publish, market, and promote your travel book, so your words get into the hands of a global audience.
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Ep#44: Promote your Nonfiction Book with Bargain Booksy
In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale talks about using the book promotion site Bargain Booksy to promote your book when it's at a promotional price under $5. Here's some of the topics covered in the show:
Bargain Booksy Nonfiction Genres
The Emotional Resistance to Reducing your Book Price
Bargain Booksy Pricing Strategy
Amazon Countdown Deals
Amazon Regional Pricing
Amazon Reviews
Bargain Booksy has lots of benefits. It's low cost, and it's one of the best book promotion sites for nonfiction authors with only a few (or no) reviews or star ratings for their books. If you're looking for an entry-level book marketing activity, this is one to cut your teeth on.
Visit the show page for this episode at www.birdsofafeatherpress.com
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Ep#43: How to Narrow the Scope of your Travel Guide
In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale talks about the different decisions needed to narrow done the content scope of a Travel Guide. Even though she's published multiple guides, she still use the concepts and strategies she shared in Book 1 of "How To Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide" series.
Are you writing a traditional Travel Guide or Travel Narrative?
Would a Hybrid guide work for your content?
How to use Theme and Angle to define your content scope.
In order to stand out in the travel guide market place, your book has to appeal to a specific audience niche in order to get noticed. As Jay walks you through the evaluation of her Cambodia Travel Guide, it'll help you assess the decisions you need to make about your own travel guide.
Visit the show page for this episode at www.birdsofafeatherpress.com
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Ep#42: Why Travel Bloggers need to Leave Blog Comments
In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale talks about the benefits to taking part in blog commenting threads, and which Facebook Groups host quality reciprocation events.
Using Comments to Grow your Blogger Community.
Run a Mile from Spam Comments.
SEO Benefits - Referral Traffic.
SEO Benefits - Reducing Bounce Rate.
Getting Social Proof from Blog Comments.
Prompts for generating blog commenting ideas.
4 Facebook groups that host weekly blog commenting events.
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Ep#41: How to Improve your Book's Readability with Self-Editing
In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale talks about how she improves the readability of her books by using just one of the self-editing reports in ProWriting Aid.
Explore Professional Editing Options.
Overview of Structural, Line and Copy Edits.
Self-Editing by Listening to your Content.
Self-Editing in ProWriting Aid to eliminate Complex Sentences.
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Ep#40: Travel Writing details you need to capture when you're fast drafting
In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale continues the discussion about fast drafting. This technique helps you streamline your note taking activities when you're traveling, so that you can spend more time exploring and less time writing. In this episode we look at what to fast draft.
Capturing a sense of place.
Moving from thinking too feeling.
Focusing on the right details.
Choosing the right words.
Using your five senses. (you should also listen to episode #25 where we went into more detail about using your sense of sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste to improve your travel writing).
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Ep#39: A-Z of Travel Writing Tips. C is for Clichés, Conversational, Cadence, and Cycle
In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale continues her travel writing tips series. Each episode provides a concise list of prompts from A to Z to give your travel writing the TLC it needs. Today's episode looks at the prompts beginning with C:
Cliches
Conversational
Cadence
Cycle Back to the Beginning at the End
We’ll cycle through all letters in the alphabet in turn from A-Z. Jay also invites you to become part of her beta reading team to review her new book for writers, Fast Drafting for Travel Bloggers, and let's you know how to claim your free copy of her Introduction to 5 Senses Travel Journaling PDF.
Visit the show page for this episode at www.birdsofafeatherpress.com