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Question: Marketing Children’s Books and Poetry Books

Author’s Question: My wife and I have several children’s books and poetry books out to the public and for sale as paperbacks at Amazon.com. We also have ebooks on Booktango.com, BookRix.com, and Smashwords.com as well as audiobooks on Meeqi.com and AXC.com. We market constantly and have contacted several newspapers asking them to carry the releases […]

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Andrew Stanton on the Power of Storytelling

This video features a TED talk by screenwriter Andrew Stanton on why and how to tell stories. It will help you learn how to tell more moving, more effective stories. Here are a few of the points he made during this talk. They are worth paying attention to if you want to write better books, […]

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Ebook Publishing: The Best Deal for Book Authors and Novelists?

Author’s Question: Does selling rights to a novel make sense anymore? Or should I simply publish ebook editions of my new novel? Publishing ebooks may well be the best answer for any book author, fiction or nonfiction. #ebooks Click To Tweet John’s Answer: Novelists are starting to realize that signing deals with major book publishers […]

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John Robert Marlow on Turning Your Novel into a Movie

Hans-Peter Zimmermann is a Swiss nonfiction author, commuting between Gstaad, Switzerland, and Orange County, California. His web show Screenwriters Get Personal features screenwriters and industry experts who are willing to share their hard-won experience. In this first episode, his guest is John Robert Marlow (http://www.makeyourstoryamovie.com), novelist, screenwriter, and adaptation specialist. His book Make Your Story […]