Writing and Creating Books

Anais Nin on Dreams

Throw your dreams into space like a kite and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. — Anaїs Nin My advice: Throw your books out into the marketplace, carry out your book marketing plan, and you may be surprised by the new friends you will make and the great readers you […]

Reader Bookmark: Plunge Deeper into Life with a Good Book

If you were ever going to date a book, which book would it be? [Note: You can answer which book you would date in the comments below.] When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life. You plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes I have always imagined that Paradise will be a […]

Motivational Bookmark: Act Without Limitation

How to Make Your Book Dreams Come True

Here are a few inspirational messages to help you get through the hard times of marketing your books. And there will be hard times, just as there will be incredibly great times. You’ll never be brave if you don’t get hurt. You’ll never learn, if you don’t make mistakes. You’ll never be successful, if you […]

Are Ebook Sales Declining?

According to Terrance Finley, CEO of Books-A-Million, the low-hanging fruit of ebook sales have been plucked. As he notes: There’s nothing on the horizon from a technology perspective that leads us to conclude that there would be technology to push dramatically different consumption levels of digital books, and prices are already very low. So all […]