self-publishing
Book Marketing Success Podcast #9: The Five Keys to Self-Publishing Success
In this Book Marketing Success podcast episode, John Kremer outlines the five key things every self-publisher must do to publish and promote his or her books. Self-publishing a book is a serious endeavor. It shouldn’t be done lightly. Create a great book first. Then market your self-published book like it really matters. Because it does. Here are […]
One Self-Published Author Sells a Million Books a Year
This year Diane Pfeifer will sell over a million copies of her Gone with the Grits cookbook and other books (GritsBits.com). How did she do it? Her answer: Just a combo of wholesale gift shop sales, gift catalogs, on-site retail including holiday shows, special sales (Quaker Grits), commodities catalogs, in-office/school lobby sales and, of course, Amazon and Ingram. […]
What Is a Good Self-Publishing Company?
I saw this lead question in a recent email I received: What is a good self-publishing company? The answer is simple: YOU. Yup, the only good self-publishing company is yourSELF. That’s what self-publishing is all about. I know that there are a lot of companies out there now that call themselves self-publishing companies. But the fact […]
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 […]