Book Marketing Stories

Larry Page on Doing Crazy Things

If you’re not doing something crazy, you’re doing the wrong things. — Larry Page Larry Page, CEO and co-founder of Google, speaks quite boldly about how you accomplish things that matter. You have to do a few crazy things. Now, while most book marketing activities are going to be boring, prosaic, by-the-book activities, once in […]

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Real Friends vs. Good Friends

Good friends offer advice and simple words of wisdom. Real friends come over unannounced with gin, chocolate, glitter, duct tape, paper clips, disguises, explosives, a plan A, and a plan B. When you pursue creating working relationships, go for real friends not just good friends. You want more than advice. You want the chocolate, disguises, […]

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Blake Bailey: 5 Writing Tips

The following writing tips are excerpted from an article by Blake Bailey that appeared in Publishers Weekly magazine. Write about things that really interest you. Pick a subject that bores you and you’ll write a boring book. Be quiet and listen. Let the person talk. Action is character. Let us see and hear how your […]

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Reading Bookmark: Read Books!

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it. — Markus Zusak What you read when you don’t have to determines what you will be when you can’t help it. — Oscar Wilde Reading is dreaming with open […]