Opyrus Blog for Authors and Writers

Published On Feb 2, 2016

25 Step Book Marketing Plan: To Achieve Market Saturation

You finally wrote the end on the perfect edited copy of your work. You might think it's time to sit back and enjoy your accomplishment, but your job has just begun. Having a published book is great, but having a book that sells takes time and...

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Published On Jan 28, 2016

3 Author Tips to Leverage Conferences Outside the Digital World!

It can be easy enough to get caught in the online marketing world either because of busy lives, juggling other work and even sometimes because we simply have not explored other avenues out there. If you have sequestered your work to the online world...

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Published On Jan 23, 2016

3 Ways for Authors to Engage and Win Over Reporters and Bloggers?

We want our book to be found, featured & purchased. This requires getting our work in front of our chosen target audience. Have you taken a close look at who the gate keepers to your target audience are? Reporters and popular bloggers are always...

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Published On Jan 19, 2016

7 Tips on How to Be a More Effective Author With Social Sharing Groups

Do you belong to social media sharing groups? If you're running your own PR and book marketing campaign it may seem like you're out there on your own fighting to gain a stake in the game. The flip-side is that you feel like you're competing with the...

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Published On May 22, 2017

5 Novel Writing Software Tools to Up Your Game

The mechanics of short story writing is simple; you can even write them using paper and pencil sitting in the wilderness. When it comes to writing a novel, though, the details are often more complicated that a simple notebook or word processing...

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Published On Jan 13, 2016

It's Planning Time: 5 Author's Conferences You Can't Afford to Miss

What you get out of an author's conference depends in large part on why you went in the first place. Are you looking for a great learning experience to improve your craft? Want to meet other authors who write in your genre for networking purposes?...

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Published On Jan 9, 2016

How to Publish Your Book Series: It's All in the Timing

When you're writing a series of books -- either a fiction series or a set of non fiction volumes -- it's tempting to publish each book as soon as you finish creating it. After all, books that aren't for sale don't make you any money, right? This may...

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Published On Jan 5, 2016

5 Marketing Trends Non-Fiction Authors Can Use in 2016

Industry experts are already claiming 2016 as the year of individualized marketing. With their unique ability to fit into small niches, non-fiction authors are in a great position to benefit from this trend in the coming year. Build your readership...

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Published On Dec 23, 2015

Authors Ignite! Position Yourself To Have the Best Year Ever

You start out in January vowing to write every day, or promise yourself you're going to finish two novels by the end of the year. By Valentine's Day, your plans are falling behind and they're completely forgotten by the time you're making summer...

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