Author Tips

7 Ways to Engage the Readers of Your Blog

Here are 7 ways to engage your blog readers in becoming more active on your blog (and more active in interacting with you as well). Scott Christ, author of The Ultimate Healthy Eating Roadmap and blogger at thehealthyeatingguide.com, asks readers who like his blog to take any or all of the following five actions: 1. […]

John Kremer: 1001 Ways to Market Your Books

John Kremer’s Book Marketing Tip of the Week: February 11, 2014

John Kremer’s Book Marketing Tip of the Week February 11, 2014 – Only 3 more days until Valentine’s Day!!! and it’s many variations: Love Carefully Day, National Smooch Day, National Have a Heart Day, National Heart to Heart Day, V-Day (Vagina Day), Respect Your Woman Day, Race Relations Day, National Condom Day Also: Read to […]

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Neil Ostroff on Kindle Direct Publishing and Twitter

Niel Ostroff, author of the novels Silent Invasion and Drop Out, has just written a blog post on The Book Marketing Network where he describes the effects of just one tweet from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. As he notes in the blog post: When you’re as active on writer’s sites as I am, you occasionally receive what […]

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Carl Sagan: What an Astonishing Thing a Book Is

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly […]