Rights Sales

How to Sell $40,000 in Foreign Rights by John Penberthy

On the Book Marketing Network website, John Penberthy related the story of how he received almost $40,000 from selling foreign rights for his self-published book, To Bee or Not to Bee: After self-publishing my book, To Bee or Not to Bee, I got a website made (http://ToBeeBook.com) which included a 60-second trailer. Then I identified […]

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Selling Book Rights: What’s a Good Price?

Book Marketing Question: John, I wrote a book published by Author House. I have 100% rights. I wrote the book several years ago, but I have been unable to market it and am facing some real hardships now. I don’t have a clue how to go about marketing for this and simply don’t have time […]

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Podcast to Book Deal: How to Turn Passion Into Profit

Lewis Howes: How to Turn Your Podcast into a Money-Making Book

In this episode of the Social Media Podcast, Michael Stelzner interviews Lewis Howes, founder of The School of Greatness podcast (a top 100 podcast in iTunes) and author of a new book on The School of Greatness. (Note the podcast audio is no longer available) Michael started the podcast with a discussion of the impact […]

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How to Create a Bestselling Novel (and Movie)!

Here’s a short story about Andy Weir, author of The Martian: He didn’t start out to write a book. He just started blogging some stories on what it would be like to survive on Mars. And people started reading those stores — and liking them. That’s how he began to build his author platform. Then […]