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March 13, 2022 By Anne R. Allen 102 Comments

It’s My Blogiversary! How to Survive 13 Years of Blogging

It’s My Blogiversary! How to Survive 13 Years of Blogging

Blogging is a great way to build platform by Anne R. Allen I started this blog on March 13th, 2009. It was Friday the 13th. Obviously I have a need to tempt fate. I knew pretty much nothing about blogging. I simply wanted a place to put the unpublished columns I had written for Inkwell […]

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Filed Under: Blogging for Authors Tagged With: blogs, how to blog, The Author Blog: Easy Blogging for Busy Authors

September 15, 2013 By Anne R. Allen 98 Comments

Blog Communities: Forming a Safe Place for New Writers in a Scary Online World

Blog Communities: Forming a Safe Place for New Writers in a Scary Online World

  Some pretty scary things have been happening in the online book world recently—stuff that’s been shocking to those of us who expect our fellow book-lovers to behave like civilized adults. I spend a lot of time telling new authors how to use social media to create a “platform,” but I probably don’t warn you enough about the […]

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Filed Under: Blogging for Authors, Social Media and Marketing For Writers, The Writing Life, Writers Dealing with Reviews and Rejection Tagged With: Alex J. Cavanaugh, Anne R. Allen, Blog community, Blogging, blogs, Donelle Lacy, How to stay safe online, Indiestructible, Insecure Writers Support Group, Julie Luek

October 9, 2011 By Anne R. Allen 75 Comments

Dueling Agent Advice on Blogging. Who Do You Believe?

Dueling Agent Advice on Blogging. Who Do You Believe?

by Anne R. Allen   You’ve probably been reading a lot of conflicting advice recently on the subject of writers and blogs. Some experts are telling us blogging is dead. Agent Wendy Lawton wrote a post on September 15th called “What’s Not Working” and asserted that blogging—and most social networking—is a waste of time for debut authors, […]

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Filed Under: Blogging for Authors, Social Media and Marketing For Writers Tagged With: Anne R. Allen, Blogging, blogs, Kristen Lamb, Lydia Sharp, Meghan Ward, Nathan Bransford, Passive Guy, publishing, Rachelle Gardner, Roni Loren, Scott Nicholson, Social Media, Wendy Lawton, writing

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Anne R. AllenAnne R. Allen writes funny mysteries and how-to-books for writers. She also writes poetry and short stories on occasion. She’s a contributor to Writer’s Digest and the Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market.

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