Book Marketing Stories

How to Build Your Speaking Career, Generate Word of Mouth, and Sell More Books

In this 42-minute audio, you will learn how to build your speaking career as an author as well as how to generate word-of-mouth so you can sell more books. Learn where you should start as a speaking author. Learn how to build word of mouth for your books. Learn how to get interviews to build […]

Blake Bailey: 5 Writing Tips for Book Authors

Here are five key writing tips for book authors from Blake Bailey, author of Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson. Write about things that really interest you. Pick a subject that bores you and you’ll write a boring book. Blake Bailey’s Writing Tips: Write about things that really interest you. […]

George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones, on Reading: I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. #readers #reading

George R.R. Martin: On Reading

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. — George R.R. Martin, author, Game of Thrones fantasy series I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the […]

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Albus Dumbledore: On the Magic of Words

I’ve always prized myself on my ability to turn a phrase. Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it. — Albus Dumbledore (of the Harry Potter series) As writers, we have great power to inspire as well as to destroy. Personally, […]