Writing and Creating Books

Dallas Clayton: An Awesome World of Book Marketing

Dallas Clayton, author of An Awesome Book! and other children’s books, originally self-published his first book after getting multiple rejections. His story was featured in a TV commercial for Google Chrome. The video had 186,000 views in less than 3 months. The commercial was featured on TV and Hulu, among other sites. I’m sure Dallas […]

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Carl Sagan: Books Work Magic

Carl Sagan: A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. — Carl Sagan #books #authors Click To Tweet 16 487

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Mark Coker: eBook Publishing Predictions for 2013

Mark Coker of Smashwords recently made the following predictions about ebooks and publishing for the upcoming year (2013). 1. Ebooks as a percentage of overall trade book sales in the US should hit 45%, up from what I’m estimating will probably be 30% in 2012. We’ll still continue to see ebooks take eyeballs from print […]

Famous Book Authors Who Died in 2012

Here are just a few of the book authors who died during the past year. We are sad to see them go. Book authors make such an incredible contribution to the world, and these were some of the best book authors. R.I.P. Ray Bradbury author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 August 22, 1920 […]