Book Marketing
Book Marketing tips, ideas, resources, and success stories.
Facebook Live Interview: Anne Bardsley, Author of Angel Bumps
Check out this Facebook Live interview I did today with Anne Bardsley, author of Angel Bumps: Hello From Heaven. It was a great interview with Anne. We talked a lot about Angel Bumps, her newest book about connecting with loved ones who have passed away. And I also shared some book marketing tips I think […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]