Writer’s Tips – Fantastic Ideas for Creating Videos, Booktrailers, Instagram Stories and More!
Welcome to another edition of my curated Writer’s Tips. In this edition, Natalie Ducey demonstrates how we can use Instagram stories to showcase our work, Nicholas Rossis is showing us how we can create free videos using Lumen, Diana Peach shares how to create a book trailer with Powerpoint, ad design tools from Bookbub, and how to re-purpose our blogs moving them to a podcasting platform, and Colleen Chesebro has an instructional for using Gutenberg editor.
Natalie Ducey has created another fabulous tutorial on how to create and use Instagram stories for our writing.
Have you thought of converting blog posts to audio for Podcasting?
5 Easy Steps To Repurposing Your Blog Post Into An Audio Podcast
Source: 5 Easy Steps To Repurposing Your Blog Post Into An Audio Podcast |
Colleen Chesebro has a great instructional series on using the Gutenberg editor
Nicholas Rossis has a helpful post to help us create videos using Lumen.
http://nicholasrossis.me/2019/09/09/lumen-5-make-a-video-the-ai-way/
Helpful Design Tools to create great book ads
Diana Peach is sharing how easy it is to create book trailers using Power Point.
Make a Book Trailer with PowerPoint
Chris Syme guesting at Anne R. Allen’s blog on how to avoid author crisis and management.
Source: The Five Myths of Crisis Management for Authors by Chris Syme
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D.G. Kaye is a nonfiction/memoir writer, who writes from her own life experiences and self-medicates with a daily dose of humor.
38 Comments
Nicholas C. Rossis
Ah, Gutenberg… I’ve been using it for months now for some of my clients and still thoroughly dislike it. Idon’t care with WordPress thinks, give me Classic Editor any day 😀
dgkaye
Oh Nicholas, I’m 1000% with you! I’ve heard nothing but snags with writer’s blogs from themes to fonts and everything in between giving them grief. No thanks from me too. I have the classic editor plugin installed and hope they keep it alive. I’m hearing from Hugh Roberts that by end of 2021 classic editor won’t work anymore. Perhaps we need to start a protest petition not to kill the classic editor? 🙂
Annika Perry
Debby, thank you so much for sharing these links! 😀 They’re great help and way to learn to develop one’s own skill. Have a great weekend! 😀🌺
dgkaye
Great to hear Annika. I too am experimenting around with these. 🙂 <3
dgkaye
So happy to hear you found them useful Annika. And Happy Weekend to you too. <3
John Maberry
Great stuff! Bookmarking. In overdrive now on my short story collection. 😉
dgkaye
Awesome! 🙂
Marian Beaman
Your timing is impeccable, Debby. Sometimes I think you are psychic!
My book needs a trailer, and hubby and I were thinking of how hard it may be to create. Well, Diana makes it seem do-able. (Yes, my book has published, but this may give my marketing a bit more horsepower – ha!)
dgkaye
Always happy to help Marian! And yes, I do have some psychic abilities, so this one’s for you. 🙂
Jacqui Murray
I’m checking out a few of these links. Then there’s Diana’s amazing post on turning a slideshow into a video book trailer. That one is great!
dgkaye
Great! Something for everyone. 🙂
Diana Peach
Oooh. Thanks for the great links, Debby. I missed a couple of these that sound really interesting. There are so many ways to be creative when marketing, and they’re much more fun than the old “buy my book” posts that we all endure as authors and readers. I’ll definitely check them out. And thanks for adding my post to the list. <3
dgkaye
My pleasure Diana. I will be working on something this weekend with your tips. So glad you found others helpful too. Happy weekend! <3
Colleen M. Chesebro
Wow, Sis. These are some amazing links!! Thank you. <3
dgkaye
Happy to share information we can all use. Thanks for your Gutenberg instruction, I’m sure it will be helpful for those using it and maybe those who dare to venture, lol. <3
Sally Cronin
Great collection of links Debby and thanks for pulling them all together. ♥
dgkaye
Thanks Sal. Happy to pass along the helpful finds I come across. 🙂 <3 xx
dgkaye
My pleasure Sal. Now I must get to work with some of these! <3 xx
Christy B
Bookmarking this one, Debby! I need to work on my promo material in the New Year and it sounds like there’s plenty of resources from this one post for me to check out then 🙂
dgkaye
So glad to help out Christy. I too will be trying out these various methods for my new promos. Good luck! 🙂 xxx
Vashti Q
Hi, Debby! Thanks for the links! These are great posts. I appreciate you! Have a wonderful weekend! <3 xo
dgkaye
Hi Vashti, thanks so much. Happy to help out. And happy weekend my friend. 🙂 <3 xx
Terri Webster Schrandt
I always appreciate your sharing this useful info, Debby! I wonder if there is a Canva how-to for creating graphics for a book? I used to use infographic but there is a fee.
dgkaye
Great Terri. I use free Canva for making designs for my book promos, give it a try!:)
Balroop Singh
Great links Deb, thanks for sharing.
dgkaye
My pleasure. 🙂
Natalie Ducey
You rock, Debby! Thanks for sharing this and for including my blog post, too. You’re the best! 🙂
dgkaye
My pleasure Natalie. Thanks for sharing such great instructionals. <3
Stevie Turner
Thanks Debby for sharing these. Still trying to catch up!
dgkaye
Most welcome 🙂 x
Norah Colvin
Thanks, Debby. Some really useful links, as usual. 💖
dgkaye
Happy to share Norah. Glad you found useful. 🙂 <3
Robbie Cheadle
These are great links, Debby. I particularly liked Diana’s advice on the book trailer.
dgkaye
Thanks Robbie. I thought they were awesome too. Easy peezy! 🙂
P.J.
I don’t utilize a lot of these things enough, and probably need to start doing it a bit more. A bunch of good tips here!
dgkaye
Thanks P.J. I’m glad to learn you did find something useful here. 🙂
Sarah Brentyn
Thank you for sharing all these, Debby. Great compilation!
dgkaye
Thanks Sarah. So glad you found them helpful <3