Book Marketing Stories

Jeff Rivera on How to Interest a Publisher

Guest Post by Jeff Rivera As someone who scouts for a number of great literary agents, editors, producers and publishers in the book, film and television industries, my greatest advice to aspiring writers who want to be discovered is the following: The BEST query letter an aspiring writer could ever have nowadays is to sell […]

Book Marketing Tip of the Week: 5 October 2012

John Kremer’s Book Marketing Tip of the Week October 5, 2012 – Bloody Mary Birthday, Make It a Woman’s Day, Love Me Do Day, National Techies Day, World Habitat Day, World Herbal Health Day, The Hillbilly Heist Anniversary, Reduce Day In this issue . . . – Infographic a Day website – Book Promotion Tweets, […]

How the Business of Ebooks Is Shaping Book Publishing

Book publishers have jumped on the ebook bandwagon, but they still have a long way to go to embrace the technology of ebooks as well as ebook promotion. 4 out of 5 publishers now publish ebooks. For every 100 print books Amazon sells, they sell 114 ebooks. The Apple iStore is only the 4th most […]

The Power of Single-Author Blogs

Listen in as Michael Ellsberg interviews superstar blogger Tim Ferriss on the power of single-author blogs. Alas, this audio is no longer available. An appearance on a single-author blog with a passionate following can be more powerful than the New York Times, CNN, and even The Today Show. Write a guest blog post. Have them […]