Marketing Novels

Book Writing GIFs: Your Book Is Finally Published

This is the fourth section of a multi-part blog post on the book publishing process as seen through a series of 8 GIFs. You’re finished with your part of the book. It’s been a year since you finished. And now you wait . . . And wait . . . You get your book cover […]

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Book Writing GIFs: How to Find a Publisher for Your Book

This is the third section of a multi-part blog post on the book publishing process as seen through a series of 17 GIFs. You now have an agent. What’s next? Now it’s time to submit to publishers. So you’re back to making submissions, which makes you do a Conan: Then the editors start saying no […]

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Book Writing GIFs: Finding a Literary Agent

This is the second section of a multi-part blog post on the book publishing process as seen through a series of 14 GIFs. You have finished a novel. Only then do you find out that you have to find a literary agent. What the heck? So you write your query letter. And you obsess over […]

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Book Marketing Tips: The Rule of Five

In my experience, the major error that new book authors make is that they stop too soon in promoting their books. Other things begin to pull for their attention and, soon, their book promotion efforts fall by the wayside. I’m going to give you a basic rule — a rule that forbids excuses, a rule […]