Book Marketing Stories

Fall in Love with the Reader

I just love this: Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader. And writers, if you don’t fall in love with your readers, your book will fail. Fall in love. Every day. Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the […]

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Seth Godin on Horizontal Book Launches

Reposted courtesy of Seth Godin I’ve explored a variety of ways to get to market with the books I’ve created over the last thirty years. I’ve self-published, worked with most of the major NY publishing houses, did a partnership with Barnes and Noble and another with Amazon — all as a way to solve the […]

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Jeff Davidson: Grappling with Your To-Do List

Guest Post by Jeff Davidson Any author worth his/her salt periodically grapples with the daily to-do list. To-do lists have been with us since the dawn of humankind and, today, everyone keeps one in some form or another. However, some authors are more effective at maintaining a to-do list and executing the items on the […]

The Narcissistic Book Reviewer

Guest Post by Jeff Davidson and John O’Connor Did you hear the one about the narcissistic reviewer who requests a book and then says one of her first tests as it arrives in the mailbox is, “Just how eager am I to read it?” The book, which is featured on Amazon and all other book […]