Book Marketing

Book Marketing tips, ideas, resources, and success stories.

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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Book Marketing Tips I Learned While Watching TV Commercials

Here are a few book marketing tips that I had learned while watching TV commercials. I share a great quote from a TV commercial, and then I comment on how that insight applies to marketing books. You’re free to be and do what you choose. (Always pads) — It’s your choice how successful your books […]

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The Almost Moon book cover

First Lines in Books Draw the Reader In: Make Them Great

In a review of Alice Sebold’s new novel The Almost Moon, the reviewer quoted the first lines of her new novel and then quoted the first lines from her previous novel, The Lovely Bones, as well. In her first novel, The Lovely Bones, it took Alice two lines to kill off the heroine: “My name was […]

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Book Marketing Success Stories Facebook Group

Join the Book Marketing Success Stories Facebook Group

Please join the Book Marketing Success Stories Facebook Group. Click on the link below to be taken to the group page to join the group. Thanks for joining! The Book Marketing Success Stories Facebook Group is a safe place to share your book marketing success stories. Please don’t promote anything else but books. And don’t […]

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