Are you content as an author because your book has finally been published? If yes, then you are making a grave mistake. Once your book reaches the publisher, it has to go through one more step which is in fact, a complex and ongoing process. Having your book on the stands doesn’t mean that it…
Welcome to SellingBooks.com!
Recent Articles
Using Twitter, A Guide for Authors New to Twitter
Twitter is a website (www.twitter.com) that allows people to join and post messages of 140 characters. When you join (it’s free), you can both ‘follow’ others and have ‘followers’ who receive messages you send (this message passed 140 characters with the word followers). Twitter began as a way for people in a business to send…
Attend an International Book Exhibit this Year
To get a fair share of readers for your book, you don’t just need to write a good piece of content, but you must be adroit in the area of book marketing too. If you want mass readership for your creation, sitting at home and wishing that people should buy your book won’t work. Book…
Book Marketing Blog Carnival – April 24, 2013
Welcome to the April 24, 2013 edition of the book marketing blog carnival. We have several interesting posts for you about writing, book publishing, book marketing and more. Our next carnival will be posted on Wed., May 8, 2013. Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. CT on Mon., May 6, 2013. Submit your blog article…
Creating a (almost) Free Marketing Strategy for Your Writing
Marketing is an important element of any business, but is frequently an abstract idea to writers. While writing a novel seems like the more insurmountable task, writers often find that marketing their work is much harder than penning their masterpiece. The work of marketing your writing to potential readers should begin before your manuscript is…
Book Marketing Blog Carnival – April 10, 2013
Welcome to the April 10, 2013 edition of book marketing carnival. We have several interesting posts for you about writing, book publishing, book marketing and more. Our next carnival will be posted on Wed., April 24, 2013. Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. CT on Mon., April 22, 2013. Submit your blog article to the…
Creative Book Promotion Ideas
Creativity is the key to finding out the best creative book promotion ideas. The truth is that good book promotion ideas will yield the best results and enable authors to swiftly make huge returns from their investment. Below are some book promotion ideas to help you market your book. Free self publishing promotion Article marketing…
Why Even Small Media Coverage Matters
So, you’ve signed on for a publicity campaign to promote your amazing new book. Most new authors aren’t familiar with what’s involved in a book publicity campaign – I didn’t, before I started working many years ago in book promotion. Publicists are the “matchmaker,” connecting your book with the right media. However, it’s you, the…
The “Spreadsheet Marketing” Lie
If it were easy or automatic to claim market share, no business would ever fail. In this post, Dan Janal talks about the lie of “spreadsheet marketing.”
Lyrical Writing
Notes on E Annie Proulx’s Annie Proulx’s is a great example of lyrical writing. While her writing might seem to violate conventional writing, her style always aims at getting to a deeper truth. Many years ago I attended a reading of published romance authors and unpublished authors. The published authors use lyrical writing judiciously. The…
-
Get the answers you need to turn your non-fiction book into multiple information products. Click here to learn more.
-
Cathy Stucker's Publishing Blog
How to Send Kindle Ebook Review Copies
Reviews can help sell more copies of your books, including Kindle ebooks. However, many authors are unsure about how to send review copies of Kindle ebooks to potential reviewers. It turns out that Amazon provides a simple way to send copies of your ebook to anyone. The above video explains it in more detail. To…
Quotes About Writing
Here are some of my favorite quotations about writing, from writers and others. Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your life. —Danielle Steel If my doctor told me I had only six minutes…
KDP Select – Get Your Share of $6 Million
Amazon.com has announced the KDP Select program for independent and self-publishers who offer their books for the Kindle. Let’s take a look at the terms of this new program and see if you might benefit from it. In a nutshell: Ebooks offered through KDP Select with U.S. rights will automatically be included in the Kindle…
Sell More Books This Holiday Season
The holidays are coming, and people are looking for great gift ideas for friends, family members and professional colleagues. Why not promote your book as a gift? Here are some ways you can make your book a hot gift idea for the holidays: Hold a sale. Everyone loves a bargain, especially around the holidays. Discount…
Get Quality Backlinks with Blog Commenting [VIDEO]
Blog commenting can be a good strategy for getting links and traffic to your blog. Commenting is most effective when (1) you comment on blogs in the same niche as your blog and (2) the links are do-follow, meaning that the search engines give you credit for the links. The problem is finding the blog…
Using Public Domain Music in an Audiobook
Music can enhance the audio version of your book. But when creating an audiobook, you need to be careful to respect the intellectual property rights of the artists who created the music. There is music in the public domain (music that is not covered by copyright) but determining the public domain status of a work…
Free Books for Writers from Amazon Kindle
Amazon.com offers many free Kindle ebooks. (You do not need to own a Kindle to read Kindle ebooks. You can use one of the many free Kindle apps.) Some of the free Kindle ebooks are classics in the public domain, such as novels by Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle and others. However, some publishers also…
Get Ready for NaNoWriMo!
Every November, thousands of writers and would-be writers take part in a month long challenge: Write a novel in 30 days. The brainchild of Chris Baty, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is the perfect time to stop saying, “I want to write a book,” and get down to writing it. Although it may seem impossible…
Win CommentLuv Premium – Free Giveaway!
Update: The giveaway winner is Liane at candlemakingdiy.com. When I recently redesigned SellingBooks.com I looked at several plugins and add-ons to manage comments in WordPress, and finally decided on CommentLuv. Not long after that, Andy Bailey released CommentLuv Premium and I couldn’t wait to try it. I liked the free version of the CommentLuv plugin,…
How to Tag Your Book on Amazon.com [VIDEO]
Want to make it easier for customers to find your book or other product on Amazon.com? One simple way to get more visitors to your product page is to use the product tags feature on Amazon. This video shows how to easily add tags to your product. It takes just a minute to do and…