Book Marketing

Book Marketing Q&A: Marketing Without an Author Platform

Author Marketing Tip: Find someone who loves you (a teenager, a neighbor, a friend, an acquaintance) and hire them to help you book some interviews if you cannot book those interviews yourself. Then have fun doing those interviews or those speaking engagements. Book Marketing Question I know 80% of books are sold by word of […]

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How to Build Your Speaking Career, Generate Word of Mouth, and Sell More Books

In this 42-minute audio, you will learn how to build your speaking career as an author as well as how to generate word-of-mouth so you can sell more books. Learn where you should start as a speaking author. Learn how to build word of mouth for your books. Learn how to get interviews to build […]

George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones, on Reading: I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. #readers #reading

George R.R. Martin: On Reading

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. — George R.R. Martin, author, Game of Thrones fantasy series I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the […]

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Book Marketing Q&A: ISBN Numbers and Self-Publishing

Question: I am pondering publishing a book through Ingram Spark and would like the book in bookstores. When should you use ISBN numbers to self-publish? Answer: Every book you publish, whether self-published or done with a major publisher, should have a separate ISBN number. In fact, each version of the book you publisher should have […]