Book Marketing Stories
How to Be a Bad Boring Writer
If you’d like to be a bad writer, a boring writer, follow these 16 simple rules: Never learn new words. Always have the television on so you can’t hear yourself think. Read as little as possible. Write about things. Never write about people. Remember that poetry is always boring, even if it comes from pop […]
Ernest Hemingway: On Writers
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one, you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places, […]
Should Independent Authors Invest in Billboards?
Guest Post by Cody Riebe In today’s world of digital and social media ads, traditional billboards are often seen as old-fashioned. Yet, the billboard industry is actually growing, largely because of its convergence with tech. Billboards and other out-of-home formats (OOH formats) for authors and books are still being used today. They continue to be […]
William Allen White: Advice to Writers
Here is editor William Allen White’s advice to writers on how to get rid of the word very in their writing. Note: This quote is sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (see attributed quote at the bottom of the page), but Twain experts have denied the quote and researchers point to the Emporia Gazette editor as […]