Writing and Creating Books

Lazy is a very strong word. I like to call it selective participation. — Snoopy

Selective Participation: Find Something You Love to Do

Here are a few book marketing tips from Snoopy the dog, Dennis Quaid the actor, and a character in a TV series. Lazy is a very strong word. I like to call it selective participation. — Snoopy and Woodstock John’s book marketing tip: You can’t be lazy in marketing your books, but you can be selective […]

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The Fundamental Law of Book Marketing: Give and Give Some More

Book Marketing Question: Why Is It So Hard to Market a Book?

Book Marketing Question: Why is marketing my book so hard? During the past few weeks I’ve had a number of authors write me to complain about how hard it is to market a book. Well, gosh, it is hard. It’s hard to write a book. It’s hard to publish a book. It’s hard to carry […]

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Book Marketing Snipfeed page

Check Out SnipFeed for Making Money

Check out SnipFeed! It’s free to use to offer all sorts of exclusive content, including livestreams, Q&As, Shoutouts, 1:1s (coaching), and exclusive content (videos, PDFs, other documents, even courses). Plus you can accept tips and do referrals. Create a custom storefront on top of your Instagram, TikTok, Twitter — any social media platform — in […]

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Ray Bradbury on Books

Ray Bradbury: Fill Yourself Full of Books

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. — Ray Bradbury If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. — Ray Bradbury #books […]

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