If querying literary agents isn’t difficult enough, how is a writer who is attempting to break into the business supposed to decipher the sales figures that are posted by major agents in areas such as the Dead Reckoning section of Agent Search (which is superb by the way) when individual statistics during a 12 month…
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Steven R. Roberts – Author Interview
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. A novel entitled A Freak’s Journey has just been finished and expected to be available by mid-February. Tell us something about yourself. Originally from Ohio, I moved with my wife to the Detroit area where we raised four children. I worked in the…
Book Marketing Blog Carnival – February 10, 2010
Welcome to the February 10, 2010 edition of the book marketing blog carnival. Would you like to be profiled on this site? SellingBooks.com is publishing interviews with authors of fiction and non-fiction books in virtually any genre. Self-published authors are welcome, as are ebook authors. If you would like to be featured, just send a…
Barbara Techel – Author Interview
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. Frankie, the Walk ‘N Roll Therapy Dog Visits Libby’s House is a true, inspirational story about my dachshund who became paralyzed in 2006 and is now wheelchair-bound, but does not let that stop her from giving back to the world in her own,…
Critiquing Coffee and Donuts – Online Critique Groups
I love those little donuts covered with powdered sugar, but I don’t want to be cleaning their dust off my blue jeans when I’m taking part in a critique session. That sort of thing happens during the let’s-have-coffee-and-chat break at the average face-to-face critique group for writers, doesn’t it? I prefer an on-line critique group….
George Eddy – Author Interview
Tell us a little about your latest book. At the age of 89, I have just published my third book: A Romance Forever: The True Story of a Wartime Romance and 66 Amazing Years Together!. This memoir recounts my daring wartime courtship and adventuresome life with my beloved wife, Kay. How did you know you…
Want to Sell? Go Where the Buyers Are!
The top advantage of modern publishing technology is that now any book can get published. And the top disadvantage of modern publishing technology is—now any book can get published. Including a plethora of shoddily printed, unedited books that only the writers’ mothers find interesting. So few bookstores or libraries give serious attention to self-published titles;…
Judith Marshall – Author Interview
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever The story takes place in Northern California in the spring of 2000, when the dot-com boom was at its peak. Elizabeth Reilly-Hayden is a successful executive in her late fifties and a divorced mother…
Breaking Through Writer’s Block
It isn’t always easy to sit down and let your creativity flow freely from your head onto the page. Sometimes you may find it difficult or even impossible to write about anything at all. If you happen to find yourself in this situation, then you have a good old-fashioned case of writer’s block. It may…
Author Interview – Rabbi Ed Weinsberg, Ed.D., D.D.
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. Conquer Prostate Cancer: How Medicine, Faith, Love and Sex Can Renew Your Life is my one and only book (published by Health Success media, October 2008). The book empowers boomer and senior men to face a diagnosis of prostate cancer with dignity, explore…
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