For Book Marketing Research, Authors Can Use a Nifty New Tool Called TitleZ
Effective book marketing begins long before the book is actually written and the more diligence paid to pre-publishing efforts the better the author’s chance of success. Before hiring a book publicist to garner book publicity for you, get a cup of coffee and get ready for a little online research on book marketing. A key [...]
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. [...]
What Do Your Customers Want? Find Out With Skribit
If there is one thing I know, that’s book marketing, and from time to time I learn about a neat new tool that makes selling books online just a little bit easier. I would like to introduce you to Skirbit. Skirbit.com allows an author to easily add a small widget to their blog which gives [...]
What Is in Your Writer’s Library?
Every writer needs a good collection of books and some software in their writer’s library. Each writer will have his or her own favorite writing books. Numerous books on writing are available for various stores and online. Writers are free to choose whichever ones work for them. Anyone that wants to be a writer needs [...]
POD Publicity – Sell More of Your Print on Demand Book
Print on demand publishing is an easy, fast and inexpensive way to publish your own book. However, unless you promote it is unlikely that you will sell more than a few copies. Heather Wallace can help you to sell more books, with the helpful information in her book, POD Publicity – How to Take a Print [...]
Writing Better Fiction – Beware when Action does Not Constitute Movement
One of the most serious issues facing many writers is the ability to maintain the action throughout the narrative. Unfortunately, the mere creation of a dramatic occurrence does not guarantee plot movement
Authors and the Value of Friends
The value of friends in the book authoring and publishing process cannot be underestimated. We always hear talk about the value of agents and publishers but never of friends. Certainly agents can be very important and publishers are essential. But don’t forget your friends! I see four ways that friends can help you become a [...]
How an Author’s Assistant Can Help You
Did you know 81% of people have a book in them just waiting to be written? That represents over 200 million people in the U.S. And, that over half of those people give up on their dream to write because they become frustrated and defeated by the complexities of the publishing process. As a writer, [...]
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