Book Marketing Blog Carnival – March 10, 2010

Welcome to the March 10, 2010 edition of the book marketing blog carnival. We have a variety of interesting posts for you in this edition, as always. Be sure to check out these great posts, and let the authors know you found them through SellingBooks.com.
Authors: If you would like to be featured [...]

Book Marketing Blog Carnival – February 24, 2010

Welcome to the February 24, 2010 edition of the book marketing blog carnival.
Marketing and Online Marketing
Andy Hayes presents What Pop Music Can Teach You About Social Media posted at Travel Online Partners (TOP), saying, “Want to market your book online and struggling? Well, I was there right along with you, but I found some inspiration [...]

Laura Cross – Author Interview

What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it.
“The Complete Guide To Hiring A Literary Agent: Everything You Need To Know To Become Successfully Published” is designed to help aspiring authors navigate the publishing industry, prepare a winning pitch package, target, attract, and hire the right literary agent, and make the journey [...]

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 blank email [...]

Attacking the Truth – The Art of Creative Nonfiction

I love writing creative nonfiction – that is, using the tools and techniques of fiction to discover truth. I love the creative nonfiction of writers like Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and Richard Selzer. I’ve had a few essays published in major venues and one book, a memoir, in the catalog of The University of Iowa [...]

Ready, Set, Write

So you finally started that novel you’ve been promising to write. And, after some false starts, you think you’ve got the hang of it. One thing for sure, you’re learning that writing is not easy. Whoever said, “I hate writing but love having written” summed this labor of love perfectly. I know this first hand. [...]

Book Marketing Blog Carnival – October 14, 2009

Welcome to the October 14, 2009 edition of the book marketing blog carnival. We have a wide variety of posts on many aspects of writing, publishing and marketing books.
Be sure to check out the great information from this issue’s contributors, and submit your post for our next blog carnival. (See the links at the end [...]

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 [...]

Get a Good Computer Keyboard

Sometimes I think I’m the only person on the planet without a BlackBerry. I must be the only person who doesn’t sit in restaurants or theaters or coffee shops texting to my friends. I’m really boring, I guess—when I’m sitting at a keyboard, it’s right here, and I’m sitting here because I’m writing something I [...]

Basic Writing Tools – Dictionaries

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Last time, I urged you to buy a copy of The Elements of Style, which writers have been using for ninety years. It’s the best book of English usage you can find, and we’ll come back to it.
The second most important tool a writer can own is a dictionary. Yes, we [...]

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