Author Tips
Writing Effective Emails That Get Attention
Guest post by Jill Konrath The following tips are excerpted with permission from Jill Konrath’s The Ultimate Guide to Email Prospecting. According to email provider ExactTarget, people take only 2.7 seconds to decide if they will read, forward or delete a message. These busy people sit with their finger on the delete button ready to blast […]
Writing Contest Promotes Las Vegas Novel
Guest post by Avery Cardoza To promote my novel, Lost in Las Vegas, I came up with the idea of offering a nationwide writing contest with $5,000 in prizes that gets readers and potential writers into the madcap spirit of the book. I played off the city’s oft-used marketing slogan, “Should everything that happens in Vegas […]
Book Marketing Makeover Months Redux
In December 2011 and January 2012, I featured guest posts from book authors, publicists, service providers, and others. Some of that book marketing content is still relevant today (seven years later), so I’m sharing the most relevant guest articles here on this website or linked to the original article on my old book promotion blog. […]
Dead Body Cookies Create Killer Sales for Mystery Novel
Guest post by Cindy Sample When I began writing, I fantasized about how my life would change when I became a rich and famous published author. This fantasy did not include me spending more time in the kitchen. Yet now I’m in there more than when I was raising my kids. The death of my […]