How to Be a Bestseller on Amazon
Understanding how Amazon sales ranking works isn’t just for techies. All authors need to understand how Amazon works so they can use the system to their advantage, and so they be an Amazon bestseller, too.
Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany
Sell What Your Book Does: A Three-Step Program for Targeting Your Potential Customers
Guest post by Brian Jud. Reprinted by permission. You can sell more of your books if you can answer two questions honestly. First, how often do people think about your book? Second, how often...
10 Famous Writers Who Didn’t Die From Suicide or Alcohol
There’s a stereotype about writers that’s hard to shake from your subconscious; namely, that they’re a bunch of boozy sad sacks who suffer so much for their art that they usher themselves into early, bitter graves by addiction to their vices.
What is Print-on-Demand?
The Monday “What Is That?” Series today features print-on-demand. In today’s publishing landscape there are many opportunities for the independently published author. The question clients often ask me is “How do I print my...
Writing Advice from John Green (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany)
Welcome to the Sunday series of writing advice from famous authors as told through video. From the youtube.com page: In which John [Green] gives advice to young, aspiring writers. He also discusses Tiffany with...
Solano Stroll Collaborative Poem
For Writing Prompt Saturdays, today, write a collaborative poem like Lael has … The following poem was written collaboratively by nineteen different visitors to the Write Makes Might/Productive Slumber/Her Jaunty Tune booth run by...
How do books get on the best-seller list?
by Ashley Hayes — Many new writers dream of having their books on the best-seller list, but how does a writer accomplish this? Newspapers around the globe publish their own best-seller lists, looking at...
Unpublished Authors Can Market Too: Top 5 Posts
The call to action in today’s 31 Days Blog Challenge is all about Sneeze pages. (Achhoo!) You know, Best Of and all that. Good for SEO, google love. So, I’m doing a Top 5...
Event Announcement: The Top 3 Secrets to Selling Books With Social Networking
Beth Barany shares some of her best secrets, insights and
approaches that have helped her clients become bestselling
authors.
What is SmashWords.com?
The Monday, “What Is That?” Series today features SmashWords.com. The weekly “What Is That?” Series highlights new publishing technologies in the ever-changing publishing world, especially for independent novelists. Nonfiction authors will find much value in these tool, too.
Writing Advice from Meg Cabot (on video)
Welcome to the Sunday series of writing advice from famous authors as told through video. In this 2-minute video, Meg Cabot, of the Princess Diaries fame, reveals how to write a novel: You need a beginning, middle and end. And don’t forget the sitting down and writing part.
Interview Your Author: Writing Prompt
For Writing Prompt Saturdays, today, interview your author… Okay, I’ll explain. One of my favorite activities is journaling where I dialogue between various parts of me, like my editor and my writer, or my...
This Week in Book Sales and Marketing
It’s Friday and here, in no particular timelime order… my reporting and cheeky opinion about this week’s news in book sales and marketing. If you have something you think should be included in this list, like a book marketing campaign that really helped your sales, or get publicity, email me using the contact form above, and I may include it in my weekly biased and random list.
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