Whether you’re an author or not…everyone should have a blog these days. A blog brands yourself and gets your name out there. If you have a business, a blog is a great tool to build your stature within your industry community. You don’t have a business yet? Well why not try your hand at blogging and turn it into a money making machine for some extra income? Authors especially need...
Above is a great video I found on how we get our good ideas. It is a video posted on Youtube by Steven Johnson, aptly titled: WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM Here’s to hoping you get that next great book idea!
Laura Hazard Owen writes an interesting article I thought my followers would be interested in…What should you price your ebook at? Turns out most authors price their ebooks at $2.99, but what sells the most copies? $3.99! Read a snippet below…Full article can be found here. What’s the best price for a self-published ebook? $3.99, Smashwords research suggests by Laura Hazard Owen One of the biggest decisions that self-published authors have...
I’ll bet having your book turned into a movie is your dream. Especially a self-published author’s dream. Today I came across an article where one author was blessed to claim just that! Check out the inspiring article here: How One Self-Published Author Landed A Movie Deal by Joanna Penn over at The Creative Penn blog.
Can your self-published eBook make it to the New York Times Bestsellers List? Four self-published eBook authors who made it onto the New York Times eBook Bestsellers List on August 5, 2012, would say yes your book can. More and more readers are looking to find a good book, and could care less about where the book was published. Don’t give up hope! Market, market, and market your book some more. Your book...
If you are trying to market your book, or yourself as an author online, you know how important it is to not just drive traffic to your website, but to get your online visitors to opt-in and enter in their email, name and/or phone number. Not only do your visitors have to trust you, but they want to know what is in it for them too. You want to offer...
Twitter Marketing Tips for Authors by Veronica Yager Twitter is a fast growing social networking tool and a microblogging service. There are over 1 million Twitter accounts being created daily! Who doesn’t want a piece of that pie? Twitter enables you to send tiny little blurbs about anything, using no more than 140 characters. You can send out a blurt (aka tweet) about your day, what you are eating, or...
Building your Author Brand by Stephannie Beman There is a difference between book branding and author branding. Book branding means that everything you do online will encompass your books. They will remember the name of the books over who wrote them. If you step outside your book branding with a new series or genre of books, you better have a pen name for those books because people will be upset...
Self-Publishing? Books Are Judged By The Interior TOO!
Remember the old saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover?” Yet people these days do just that. Well there is something else to worry about as a self-publishing author – the interior! The interior? What do you mean? If a reader picks up a book, and they start to read the book before they buy it, if the font size is too hard or too small to read, or...
E-book rags to hardcover riches: Self-published novelist inks seven-figure deal with Penguin by Peter Enzinna Life just got more interesting for Iowa author Tracey Garvis-Graves – seven figures more interesting. Penguin Group’s Plume imprint picked up her self-published novel, “On the Island,” inking a two-book deal that Garvis-Graves told the Des Moines Register came with “a goodseven figures.” Since its publication in March (after many rejections from both agents and firms),...
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