book marketing | book marketing
Oct.26.2011
Thinking it would be easier for him than for me, I asked my very obliging publisher to put my book up on Kindle, and though he always insisted he’d done it, it was never there when I looked. Since this was at a time when Amazon.com was being difficult about self-published books not printed by...
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Oct.23.2011
Okay, I’m on to another marketing project.
I was overwhelmed and indeed impressed by the numbers of blogs Jessica Bell is going to visit during her two-week book launch blog tour for her soon to-be-released, String Bridge. And that got me thinking I hadn’t visited nearly enough blogs at...
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Sep.29.2011
I often speak with my clients and to audiences about successful books. I have to remember that each author has a different picture of publishing success. For some, a successful book means having one become an Amazon best seller or a New York Times Best seller. For others, it means selling...
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Sep.27.2011
THE 99-CENT EBOOK DILEMMA: ROAD TO SUCCESS OR A SUGGESTION “IT SUCKS”?
When Amanda Hocking first made news earlier this year that a 26-year-old out of Austin, Minnesota, could become a millionaire by selling her books for 99 cents on Kindle, anyone with a flicker of a story hammered it out and...
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Jul.30.2011
(Thanks for coming by, but if you're not reading this at my official web page, you are sure missing some nice photos!)
On Friday, Elizabeth and I walked through golden morning to the Alpine County Sheriff’s Office to present Dragon’s Ark to Christine Branscombe, deputy, support services...
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Jul.29.2011
[If you're reading this here and not at my official web page, you're missing some swell photos!)
You may have noticed a sag in my marketing efforts for my novel Dragon’s Ark (Ambler HousePublishing; $15, available in POD through your local bookstore, Amazon, Barnes& Noble, Powell's...
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Jul.05.2011
It never gets easier this whole networking, socializing to sell books thing. I wonder how authors did it a hundred years ago, two hundred years ago? Oh, right, people bouught books, read the books, talked about the books and more people bought the books. Of course, there weren't millions of people...
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Jul.02.2011
Since my book launch and signing just after my memoir, Leaving the Hall Light On, was released in May, I've spent the month of June on a blog tour, coordinated and managed by WOW-Women on Writing. I decided to embark on this tour because I had hosted two other WOW blog tour authors in the last...
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Jun.20.2011
I remember sitting in a circle every morning at an Esalen workshop with everyone in turn giving a one-word check-in assessment of where we are with the day or anything else on our minds. So if I were to give one word for today's check-in I could say "busy." However, a better word is...
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Jun.19.2011
I was asked recently about my new projects and how I manage to earn a decent pretax income of around $100,000 a year (higher than around 95 percent of taxpayers) by working only three or four hours a day. My income comes from my best-selling books and from internet marketing (see also using viral...
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