Reader Flora Morris Brown offered up a cool infographic (below) from her own site at coloryourlifepublished.com. A fun way to continue the author marketing brainstorm on ways we can market our work beyond the book store. Says Flora, “Indie publishers
Book Markets Continue to Grow!
Some fun and interesting publishing insights today on both the ebook and traditional print book markets: Bowker recently released its 2013 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors Annual Review. The full report is $799, but their free preview is available
How to Handle Rejection: Don’t Give Up!
A friend and wonderful writer, Lee Cox, just sent me a link to an interesting article appearing August 4, 2013 on CNN.com, The Man Who Turned Rejection Into a Career. I read it with interest (as should you) because in
Book Marketing 101 From An Author’s POV
Thanks to author and columnist Ken Burger for this guest post! Graphic courtesy freedigitalphotos.net I’ve written and published three novels over the past five years and have learned one sure-fire, no-lie, absolute thing about marketing books. It ain’t easy. I’m
How to Find the Best Book Reviewers
As promised back on our May 1, 2013 launch of the Winner Circle, we’d be offering up quarterly updates to our online interactive Directory of Book Reviewers. Today’s the day! Volume 2, Fall 2013 is now live and online, and
Out of the Box Book Marketing Ideas
When each of us sets out to write a book, we have an audience in mind. In the end, marketing our book is all about finding that audience. Here’s how a few of our folks have been finding theirs: Charity
Give Your Author Website a Tune-Up
Sometimes it isn’t more content you need, just a better way to find it. Because the information superhighway has become so clogged with traffic, to get found today requires you to carefully organize each bit of info on your author