Book Marketing

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Understanding Fanfiction — And Why You Should Write It

Guest Post by Hayley Zelda Fanfiction has been around for decades, but its popularity has exploded in the past few years. This new generation of writers is both reviled and celebrated for their work. It’s an interesting phenomenon to consider. On the one hand, it’s not surprising that people would want to engage with a […]

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116 Headlines You Can Use

574 Amazing Number Headlines to Demand Attention

Check out these 574 amazing headlines based on numbers (including the title of this article). Use these headlines to create your own incredible headlines for your blog posts, website articles, video titles (or content), podcast episodes (or content), social media posts, book titles (or content), and more. 2 Most Important Book Launch Numbers Two Strategies […]

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Write from the Heart

Tiny Letters for Beginning Email Newsletters

The people at MailChimp now offer a free email service at TinyLetter.com for personal newsletters. It’s a very basic service with few statistics and such, but could be a great way to begin communicating with your potential readers. This service is perfect for novelists, poets, short story writers, and memoirists. But it’s also great for […]

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Book Marketing Tip: The Best Happy Hour

It’s time to give up your old happy hour of drinking and snacking after work. If you want to sell more books, you need to start a new Happy Hour—an hour in the morning or early afternoon where you pick up the phone and call people who could make a difference in marketing your books: […]

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