Marketing Novels

The Business of Writing: An Interview with Sharyn November

The following interview with Sharyn November, senior editor at Viking Children’s Books, is excerpted from a new book edited by Jennifer Lyons, The Business of Writing – Professional Advice on Proposals, Publishers, Contracts, and More for the Aspiring Writer. You can check out more about The Business of Writing on Amazon.com. JL: How do you find […]

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QR Code Featured in a Book Tour

During the Magical Mystery book tour for his latest novel Bad Moon, Todd Ritter used a QR code as a way of entering readers into a contest to win a gift certificate for their favorite bookstore. The Magical Mystery Tour, named for his genre and a nod to his favorite band, kicked off October 11th […]

Boyd Morrison on Writing Thrillers and Self-Publishing

Ebooks and self-publishing are mainstream these days but a few years ago ebooks were relatively unknown. Boyd Morrison was one of the first authors to upload a novel to Kindle, subsequently getting a book deal off the back of his self-published success. This year his US publisher decided to let him go so now he […]

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Use the Shakespeare System of Ebook Promotion

The growing popularity of ereaders, tablets, smartphones, and sites that sell digital books gives independent book authors a chance to hit the mainstream without a traditional book publishing deal. Matthew Mather’s The Complete Atopia Chronicles was his first novel. Within days of its release at the start of August 2012, it shot to #1 on […]