Marketing Novels

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 […]

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Where Do I Find Time to Promote My Novel?

Book Marketing Question: I am currently a college student. On February 14, 2012, my debut novel Founders’ Island was published and distributed among bookstores. However, since then I have sold hardly any. The most I have sold are maybe ten or eleven copies. This is mostly because I am too weighed down by my education […]