novel marketing

Great Book Trailer, Book Cover Needs Work

Here’s a wonderful video promo for R. Scott Mackey’s mystery novel Courage Matters. It features good images, great pacing, strong voiceover, and a great music soundtrack. It made me want to read his novel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=https://youtu.be/BiK_IVp909U&rel=0&w=640 Here’s a wonderful video promo for R. Scott Mackey’s mystery novel Courage Matters. Click To Tweet Too bad his book […]

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Her Dear and Loving Husband by Meredith Allard

Selling More Books by Giving Books Away

Guest post by Meredith Allard When I published the first novel in my paranormal/historical trilogy, Her Dear & Loving Husband, in 2011, I was starting completely from scratch. I didn’t have a platform, a website, or really anything to recommend me or my book. As an independent book author, I don’t have unlimited funds to […]

Neil Ostroff on Kindle Direct Publishing and Twitter

Niel Ostroff, author of the novels Silent Invasion and Drop Out, has just written a blog post on The Book Marketing Network where he describes the effects of just one tweet from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. As he notes in the blog post: When you’re as active on writer’s sites as I am, you occasionally receive what […]

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Using Video to Sell Rights to a Memoir or a Novel

In 2007, to help make the sale of a new book project, Curtis Brown agent Elizabeth Sheinkman encouraged the author, Rupert Isaacson, to put a 5-minute video up on YouTube. Isaacson, author of The Horse Boy, a memoir telling about his upcoming trip to Mongolia with his autistic son, was planning on making a video […]