Writing and Selling an eBook with Kindle Direct Publishing
By Michael S. Mitchell
The traditional route to getting published was to create your book, and then find an agent to work with you, who will finally get a publisher interested enough to publish it. The problem with all this is that your chances of [...]
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Allan Leverone is a three-time Derringer Award Finalist as well as a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee for his short fiction. He has been hailed by bestselling author Vincent Zandri as “the successor to Michael Crichton,” and New York Times bestselling author Debbi Mack calls his work “suspenseful and well-written.”
Allan lives in Londonderry, NH with his [...]
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Jaime McDougall is a citizen of the world, currently loving life in beautiful country Victoria in Australia. She loves eating sushi, kidnapping her husband and naming her pets in honour of science fiction authors. She has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: High School: The Real Deal and Chicken Soup for the Soul: [...]
Posted in Guest Interviews Tags: book marketiing, ebooks, Jaime McDougall, So You Want to Write a Guest Post Comments OffWe’ve gathered the most interesting tweets recently related to book publishing, marketing and everything in between that will help you learn more about what’s going on in the land of books. This will be an ongoing feature at Book Marketing Buzz posted every Sunday:
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Hollywood, CA – – Award winning national book publicist Charlie Barrett (www.thebarrettco.com) will guest in a “Face Book Party” hosted by the leading book promo Internet firm Pump Up Your Book on Thursday, January 27th, 9-11pm EST. A free Kindle ($189 value!) will be given away during the session. Those interested [...]
Amazon has told Pocket-lint that it expects Kindle ebook sales to eclipse paperback sales by the end of 2011, and to eclipse combined hardback and paperback sales shortly after that in the US.
“I think we [Amazon] will sell more Kindle books than paperback books in the next year [2011]“, Steve Kessel, the man tasked with [...]
One of the most-asked questions I get from writers who have never written and published an eBook before is, “How would you promote a self-published eBook? Where would you go to even begin selling a product that hasn’t the backup from a traditional or otherwise publisher?”
Well, that’s two, but many writers balk at attempting [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: book marketing, book promotions, content ezines, ebooks, free articles banks, free press release sites, guerilla marketing plan, how to use key search words, online book promotion, online marketing, online storefronts, promote your book, promote your ebook, promoting ebooks, promoting self-published ebooks, Self Publishing, sell your book, sell your ebook, virtual book tours, writer forums 5 Comments »For one week each year, Rita Toews, 61, a soft-spoken mother of two and grandmother of one, sits at the center of the ebook universe.
Operating from a spare bedroom in her home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada with her cat Lola by her side (“Every author needs a cat,” she says), Ms. Toews is the creator [...]
