This post by Dan Smith first ran on Smith Publicity’s site, one of WWW’s valued and Stellar Partners. Since 1997, Smith Publicity has promoted thousands of books from every genre from New York Times best sellers to first time, self-published
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
Top-Selling Indie Author Shares 4 Tips for Marketing Your Book
Building a Following is a Marathon, Not a Sprint, Says this Corporate Exec-Turned-Novelist If you want people to read your book, you have to be more than a talented storyteller or researcher – you will need plenty of persistence, says
How to Make the Most of a Book Festival
Here comes book festival season! We hear of a new book fest every day around the WWW office, and today received a cool post on how an author can break out from the pack to sell their work at a
Book Bub Bringing Deals to Readers and Readers to Authors!
We’ve been testing and watching the efforts of Bookbub.com lately and are pleased to report that as readers, we love the service. Better still, we’ve heard from a few authors who are also loving the promotional vehicle and — though
90 Out Loud: Video Social Book Promotion
Love, love, love this concept. Brian Cheng, author of the soon-to-be-released Southern Cross the Dog (Amistad: HarperCollins, May 2013) has recently started a clever video series on Tumblr called 90OutLoud (or see the vids via his 90Outloud channel on YouTube).