Author Tips
Book Marketing Gems: How to Market a Self-Published Novel
Guest post by Kenneth Eade Now that you’ve successfully self-published your book, you can sit back, relax and enjoy the income stream, right? Wrong. Self-publishing, like any other business, works on the 80-20 principle. You’re going to spend a good deal of time marketing your book. Why? Because nobody else is going to do it. This […]
Book Marketing Q&A: What Is the Best Way to Sell Children’s Books?
Question: What’s the best way to sell children’s books? John Kremer’s Answer: You have three choices in marketing children’s books: market to the children, market to their parents, or market to their grandparents. All three are audiences for children’s books. Personally, I think it’s best to target the children through schools and libraries. Of course, that […]
The Gold Standard of Self-Publishing
Just a tidbit from: LotsOfWords.com: The word self-publishing spelled backward is gnihsilbupfles which is not a word. Who would have even thought of spelling it backward? Of course, there are many book authors who do self-publishing backwards. There are two ways to write a book that will sell: Write to fill a market. Do your keyword […]
Maya Angelou: Book Marketing Advice
The following advice from Maya Angelou applies not only to marketing books but also to writing books, publishing books, self-publishing books, producing ebooks, pursuing publicity, and just about everything else you do as a book author and/or self-publisher. Pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their […]