Book Marketing Stories

John Kremer: 1001 Ways to Market Your Books

John Kremer’s Book Marketing Tip of the Week: February 11, 2014

John Kremer’s Book Marketing Tip of the Week February 11, 2014 – Only 3 more days until Valentine’s Day!!! and it’s many variations: Love Carefully Day, National Smooch Day, National Have a Heart Day, National Heart to Heart Day, V-Day (Vagina Day), Respect Your Woman Day, Race Relations Day, National Condom Day Also: Read to […]

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Vid.me: A New Site for Sharing Videos (and GIFs)

Vid.me, a video-sharing website, bit the dust some time ago. Alas. Ransom Note: Who’s holding your book hostage? Not us. Drinking wine: Another great way to avoid writing when you are having writer’s block. Don’t drink wine to avoid writing. 4

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Neil Ostroff on Kindle Direct Publishing and Twitter

Niel Ostroff, author of the novels Silent Invasion and Drop Out, has just written a blog post on The Book Marketing Network where he describes the effects of just one tweet from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. As he notes in the blog post: When you’re as active on writer’s sites as I am, you occasionally receive what […]

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Carl Sagan: What an Astonishing Thing a Book Is

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly […]