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How to Market Your Self-Published Book on Amazon
Posted by admin on October 11th, 2011
Posted in Articles, Book Promotion Videos, Webinars 
Tags: book marketing, market your self-published book on Amazon, sell books, sell books at amazon 
Comments Off100 sites for fiction writers
Posted by admin on August 5th, 2011
Rather than just bookmark it for reference, I thought I’d blog about it – this is a wonderful series of sites for fiction writers posted on Ty Johnston’s blog. It’s a wonderful list so far. He’s up to #36 but I can’t wait to go back and read what else he has for us.
If you’d [...]
And Yet Another Self-publishing eBook Success Story…
Posted by admin on August 5th, 2011
British writer Louise Voss had a hard time selling her novel Catch Your Death to literary agents, so she decided to self publish her book in the Kindle UK Store. Hoping to attract readers to an unknown author, Voss priced the eBook at the low price of £0.95. The low price helped [...]
MindStir Media J.J. Hebert believes authors need to treat writing as a business
Posted by admin on May 3rd, 2011
The publishing winds have changed direction and with that a new attitude among authors. Those who have been in the business long enough know the tricks. If you don’t treat your books as a business, you’ll never succeed.
MindStir Media J.J. Hebert interviewed at Virginia Beach Publishing Examiner today. Read full article here.
Posted in Articles Tags: book marketing, book publishing, Examiner, J.J. Hebert, publishing book, Self Publishing, self-publisher No Comments »How to Promote Your Books with Virtual Book Tours
Posted by admin on April 29th, 2011
Check this out, you book promotion maniacs…how well are you using your key search words for people to find out about your book? If you’ve been using them efficiently, you could make a really neat video for YouTube using the Google Search Stories Video Creator. It’s loads of fun! Here is one I made for [...]
Have retailers made it too easy to buy online thus creating Borders’ downfall?
Posted by admin on February 22nd, 2011
I’m sure everyone by now has heard about the Borders chain going bankrupt and they decided to close quite a few stores across the country. I’ve never actually walked into a Borders store, usually making the local Barnes & Noble my point of destination. Perhaps if a Borders had been built near us [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: bookstores, Borders, Borders bankruptcy, chain bookstores, Dorothy Thompson, Pump Up Your Book, selling books No Comments »Paper.li newspapers?
Posted by admin on January 12th, 2011
I’m not sure how many of you know about this but you can create your own daily papers. What this is is a place that grabs what others tweet on your twitter account. It’s really fun. My paper is http://paper.li/pumpupyourbook. I would love it if you all would subscribe!
Fun!
What Books Were Bestsellers on Your Birthday?
Posted by admin on January 11th, 2011
What books were bestsellers on your birthday? BibliOZ, the book search wizard, can tell you!
Click here.
Just put in the day, month and year you were born and it spits out all the books that were bestsellers on the very day you were born. Fun!
What Your Readers and Book Buyers Want to Know About You and What You Need to Know About Them
Posted by admin on September 14th, 2010
Every now and then, I’ll have an author ask me what they should write about when asked to write guest posts or what emphasis they should concentrate on when answering questions in interviews or just what they should do to create the most impact on their book buying public without becoming overbearing, pompous or downright [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: book marketing, book marketing articles, book promotion articles, book promotion tips, book promotions, book publicists, book publicity, book sales, how to promote books, online book promotions, promote your book, Pump Up Your Book, sell your book, toot your horn Comments OffSo who is the world’s highest paid author?
Posted by admin on August 23rd, 2010
Take a guess without looking. Who do you think is the highest paid author? J.K. Rowling? Thnk again.
As of June 2010, U.S. author James Patterson outranked the reigning queen herself, J.K. Rowling, and became the world’s highest paid author. The irony of it all is according to this article at the Independent, Patterson might not [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: Forbes Magazine, highest paid author, J.K. Rowling, James Patterson 3 Comments »
