Jason DeMars writes:

Chris,
I enjoy what you wrote about how to write articles using excerpts from books. From what I understand many times fantastic fiction authors can do a poor job of promoting their books. The advice you offer is to the point. Another point you make that applies to all of us is “start with thinking about what” your target market “would want to know”?
So many internet marketers get great ideas, but simply don’t take this thought into consideration. Great point Chris.

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Strephon Kaplan-Williams writes:

To turn my new memoir, My Greatest Loves, into relevant articles I would do the following:

-Each chapter is about a relationship I had and what I learned from it. The dramatization is in dialogs and in descriptions of interactions we shared together.

-To make the experience come alive for the article reader I then give the excerpt from the memoir, introduced by an introductory sentence: Have you ever had a relationship experience similar to the following from my true life memoir, My Greatest Loves?

-The memoir excerpt follows. If the reader is interested and drawn to the narrative, then the reader might be likely to go to the memoir home site to read more chapters or buy the book.

-The excerpt is followed by a concluding paragraph: This is what I learned from this excerpt:

‘Never say goodbye’ means ‘say goodbye’ or you get stuck in the past. Holding onto the memory of a past relationship may inhibit my dating and finding someone new to relate to.

The feeling ‘to never say goodbye’ is just a feeling. What I learned I must do when a relationship is over is, ‘always say goodbye!’ This frees me up to live in the present and seek a full relationship happening now.

Suggestion: Have you learned to say goodbye? Even if you don’t relate to someone now who has been important in your life, you can write a letter to that person and really say goodbye. Remember, you don’t have to send the letter, as it may be too late in the outer life. But at least you have created closure for yourself so you are free to move on.

For more relationship insights and practices, as well as to read all the chapters of my memoir, My Greatest Loves, go to: give the url.

This template should work for fiction and memoir writers, don’t you think?

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Excellent example Strephon!

:-)

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Shawn writes:

I like the fact that you keep people updated with a personal EzineArticles blog about how this site benefits business owners with free targeted traffic. When will you be coming out with an RSS feed “by keyword” specific tool, in case the content some publishers are looking for is not available through the topics’ RSS feeds you already serve ?

ShawnDrewry.com

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Shawn,

We already do have a keyword searchable XML feed, but it’s ripe for abuse so we’ve decided to not share it with anyone for now.

It’s our intention to return to this market need after our API gets launched later this year: http://EzineArticles.com/developers …because the API may offer the same basic functionality you’re looking for, but in a rate-shaped world that allows us to feel good about how a Publisher is using the datafeed responsibly

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Tracy Falbe writes:

Thank you so much for this totally helpful blog entry. I’ve used (and enjoyed) EzineArticles to promote my books and websites, but of late I’ve hit a wall with what to write new articles about, except for the occassional book review (which are quite helpful for promoting your own book by the way in the resource box). Now I can consider using some of my fictional content as a framework for new articles. I had never thought of that.

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Jan Verhoeff writes:

The best part of promoting your book via articles is that you can use the articles to create an ebook you can GIVE away to draw people to your website. Where you can flagrantly promote your book and you won’t be chastized for it.

These ideas are great — I’ll be blogging this blog post for my writers group site. Thanks!

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June Ahern writes:

This information came at a good time for me. I’ve written two pieces for EzineArticles and it was a good exercise in giving some humble author thoughts. Now, with this new information, I can share more about my fictional novel in a, hopefully, educational and supportive way with writers. Thank you.

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