{"id":3115,"date":"2022-07-27T22:37:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T22:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2022-07-27T22:37:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T22:37:21","slug":"julys-independent-publishing-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2022\/07\/27\/3115\/julys-independent-publishing-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"July&#8217;s Independent Publishing newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to the July issue of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Books+Publishing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s monthly <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independent Publishing <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This month&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">newsletter is focused on publicity and social media advice for writers, whether you&#8217;re a new writer looking to market your first book, or an experienced author who needs to refresh your strategy for moving your back catalogue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Below, R M Marketing Services director and all-round marketing whizz Rachael McDiarmid shares her tips on developing a social media strategy. Her takeaways? Be prepared, set goals and figure out who your audience is. There&#8217;s also the fourth and penultimate instalment in Ellie Marney&#8217;s \u2018Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: promotion, marketing and all that jazz\u2019 series, in which she advises on how to put your publicity plan into action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As usual, there&#8217;s also a round-up of the latest publishing news, and this month&#8217;s Q&amp;A is with author and filmmaker Ben Randall, who has turned a very personal encounter with human trafficking into a four-book series, raising awareness and funds for his charity in the process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy reading (and writing)!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brad Jefferies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Editor, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independent Publishing<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the July issue of Books+Publishing\u2019s monthly Independent Publishing newsletter. This month&#8217;s newsletter is focused on publicity and social media advice for writers, whether you&#8217;re a new writer looking to market your first book, or an experienced author who needs to refresh your strategy for moving your back catalogue. Below, R M Marketing Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorial"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}