Book Marketing Stories

What Smart Authors Know

Learn How to Sell Lots More Books at AuthorU Extravaganza 2017

What’s the difference between authors who are only selling a few books and authors who are selling lots of books? Selling authors know where their specific book buyers are. Selling authors know how to get sponsors behind their books. Selling authors know that it takes on-going learning (especially via books and live seminars). Selling authors […]

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Book Marketing Tip: Do Things Your Way

There is only one thing you need to know if you want to accomplish anything. All rules are wrong. That’s it. You don’t need to know anything else. All rules are wrong. Learn the rules. Then break them. Do things your way. Learn the rules first. Then smash them at will. All rules are wrong. […]

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Facebook Rebels

Let’s Hear It for Creative Thinkers and Writers!

Let’s hear it for creative thinkers and writers! Here is the next Ernest Hemingway. Clearly a novelist to be. Let’s hear it for novelists! And poets! And memoirists! And nonfiction writers! Hurrah! Yippee! Hippee dippee! And let’s hear it for books! Let’s hear it for creative thinkers and writers! The next Ernest Hemingway. Clearly a novelist. […]

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William Kennedy on Movie People

William Kennedy: On Hollywood Movie People

Novelist William Kennedy, author of Ironweed, once made the following point during an interview about his work. Hollywood people say no all the time. Very rarely do they say yes. The folks in Hollywood are in the business of not making movies. — William Kennedy He received a no on one of his novels. As […]

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