Author Tips

Ellen L Hughes: Ask for Help

Guest post by Ellen L. Hughes, author of Be a Smart Client Ask for Help; Get More Help Working as a paralegal for over 20 years, I noticed many clients were intimidated by lawyers and the legal system. I decided to empower people by sharing what I learned in my book, Be a Smart Client: Guide to a Successful […]

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The Simplest Advice: Become What You Respect

Here is some of the simplest advice I’ve ever come across. I don’t know who originally gave the advice, but it’s worth paying attention to. Attract what you expect. Reflect what you desire. Become what you respect. Mirror what you admire. Good advice for authors. Good advice for publishers. Good advice for book marketers. Good […]

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Seth Godin on How You Make People Feel

In a blog post many years ago, Seth Godin declared the following 98% rule: By a factor of three, what you do is not nearly as important as how it makes people feel. That’s a rule I have to practice more. Sometimes, in the hustle of day-to-day details, I forget the larger picture — which, in […]

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Dawn Ireland: Postcard Marketing for Books

Learn how to sell 10 to 20 books every week on Amazon.com. A simple #bookmarketing technique. Click To Tweet Guest post by Dawn Ireland, author of The Puppy Baby Book The Puppy Baby Book was published in 2000. In late 2000 I entered it into a competition and in early 2001 it was a finalist in […]

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