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. Here’s a wonderful video promo for R. Scott Mackey’s mystery novel Courage Matters. Click To Tweet Too bad his book cover […]

About John Kremer

John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- .

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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 […]

About John Kremer

John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- .

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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 […]

About John Kremer

John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- .

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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 […]

About John Kremer

John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- .

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