Book Marketing
Book Marketing tips, ideas, resources, and success stories.
Knock and Knock Again
I learned sales and marketing from knocking on a hundred doors a day. You quickly discover that you’ll get 99 slammed in your face before you make a sale. — John Paul DeJoria, quoted in The Education of Millionaires by Michael Ellsberg While John Paul DeJoria knocked on doors to sell hair care products, as […]
A Book Can Be a Star, A Living Fire
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L’Engle, children’s book author Is your book a living fire to lighten the darkness? Does your book lead out into the expanding universe? Is your book a star? If not, why not? A book, […]
Marianne Williamson: We Are All Meant to Shine
We are all meant to shine, as children do. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. — Marianne Williamson, poet, Our Deepest Fear It’s time for all of us to shine as book authors. If we share good stuff, we will shine. And we […]
A Book a Day: A Marketing Challenge
During the first seven days of January, I released one new book or new edition each day — seven books in total. Then I got sick, and the last fifteen days have seen no new book releases. Alas. But I would have had to stop sooner or later, not because I would run out of […]