by JoAnne Franklin | Jul 8, 2019 | Articles, Book Reviews, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Setting Up For Sales, Writing
Yesterday, someone asked me to autograph my latest book. I refused because I had given them the book to review. I’m seeking reviews because reviews have now trumped rumor as the preferred way to sell novels. In other words, I’m not hiding the fact that I wrote a...
by Penny Sansevieri, Author Marketing Experts, Inc. | Mar 1, 2019 | Articles, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Setting Up For Sales, Tips from the Pros
If you’ve ever done an author event and come up short on sales, you’re not alone. And that’s because authors often commit to these events without taking time to consider what makes them successful. If you do them right, author events can really pay off. But how? As...
by Penny Sansevieri, Author Marketing Experts, Inc. | Feb 12, 2019 | Articles, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Setting Up For Sales, Social Media, Tips from the Pros
Does your website work as a book marketing tool? I pose this question at writer’s conferences quite often, and you’d be surprised how few people answer yes. The truth is, a lot of authors just don’t know if their website actually moves the sales needle. There are...
by Scott Lorenz, Westwind Communications | Jan 9, 2019 | Articles, Literary Agents, Marketing, Pre-Publication, Self-Publishing, Setting Up For Sales, Tips from the Pros
If you are a serious writer with high aspirations, then you’ll want to go to a writers’ conference. A writers’ conference is a think tank for authors to build on each other’s ideas and inspire new achievements in their own work. For the cost of lodging and...
by Marika Flatt, PR By the Book | Dec 4, 2018 | Articles, Self-Publishing
If you haven’t heard, Digital Book World moved from NYC to Nashville in October 2018, and we were there to hear all about the latest digitization of our industry. The new frontiers being explored within the literal “digital book world” are vast and exciting, as long...
by Caroline O'Connell & Joe Wehinger | Sep 13, 2018 | Articles, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Setting Up For Sales, Social Media
For those Do-It-Yourself types, there is no reason why you can’t create an author website that ‘looks like a million bucks’ (while costing less than $100 to set up). Today’s templates and graphic features for hosted websites can compete with sites created by...
