Author Tips

Dying for a Deal by Cindy Sample

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. […]

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Dead Body Cookies from Cindy Sample, author of Dying for a Dance

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 […]

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John Kremer interviews Anne Bardsley

Facebook Live Interview: Anne Bardsley, Author of Angel Bumps

Check out this Facebook Live interview I did today with Anne Bardsley, author of Angel Bumps: Hello From Heaven. It was a great interview with Anne. We talked a lot about Angel Bumps, her newest book about connecting with loved ones who have passed away. And I also shared some book marketing tips I think […]

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The Joy of Publishing by Nat Bodian

The Joy of Publishing: How to Know If a Book Is Good

Would you like a quick way to decide if a book is good? Sometimes when you get so many books to read, look at, review, or provide testimonials for, you might have to follow the simple method used by the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski to decide which books are worthy of your attention. Because […]

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