At the end of July we wrote a post, Have You Overlooked Your Local Library? Apparently many of us have; we visit too many libraries that are ghost towns, but more and more community leaders and savvy folks in publishing
Throwback Thursday – hanging out in the local library as a teenager, avoiding chores at home and lots of little brothers and sisters. Back in those days, our local library (shown at right) was brand-spanking new, with a nifty loft
Several authors have asked us recently about the Kindle Scout program. Kindle Scout is a crowdsourced publishing platform for new, unpublished books. Selected books are published by Kindle Press and receive 5-year renewable terms, a $1,500 advance, 50% eBook royalty
Whether you’re published or unpublished, traditionally or indie or self-published, there are always new tools to help you tell more readers about your work, and sell more books! This weekend, as we celebrate Independence Day in the USA with fireworks
Our sincere thanks to Wise Ink Creative Publishing for this guest post – We’re excited to hear YOUR thoughts on Amazon’s newest payment strategy… Read on! If you are the least bit tech savvy in your book reading (or writing),
By Porter Anderson (On Twitter: @Porter_Anderson) Hear that cheer from the Left Coast? That might just be librarians gathered for the American Library Association’s (ALA) big Annual Conference & Exhibition. It opens today, Thursday (25th June) in San Francisco. And
If you read our series on professional book cover design, you know that these days, a book is indeed judged by its cover. Finding a great cover design can run upwards of $500, money well-spent of course, but still a