Guest Expert: Dana Lynn Smith Facebook can be a terrific way to promote your book and yourself, but you may be wasting your time (or worse) if you don’t learn how to use it effectively. Below are ten common mistakes authors make on Facebook, along with tips on how to avoid them. 1. Diving in […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Why Inbound Marketing Makes Sense
The Push and Pull of Marketing: Why Inbound Marketing Makes Sense Guest Expert: Penny C. Sansevieri If you’ve been promoting online for any length of time, you know that, when used correctly, social media can be a really effective way to promote your book. The term “inbound marketing” is actually referring to the pull-marketing that […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: Never Give Up, and Always Get Your Name Out
Publicity Tips for Authors By Pam Lontos So you have finished your masterpiece, you’ve found your press; you’ve lined up a distributor, and then what? Where do you start? How do you differentiate yourself and your book from all of the others available via online booksellers or on bookstore shelves? How do you get the […]
Book Marketing Mondays: How to Become a Blogging Expert Overnight
Guest Expert: Jo-Anne Vandermeulen With age comes wisdom…but, not when we’re talking about blogging. It doesn’t take years to become an expert blogger. You can *conquer all obstacles* and become a professional as early as…tomorrow. Yes, I said tomorrow. To become a blogging expert, all you need to do is: – Define Your Niche […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: 5 non aggressive ways to increase the online exposure for your book
Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow During the time you are writing your book, you can begin to coordinate ways to increase the online exposure for your book. By starting the process while you are writing the book, it gives your potential readers to get to know you and for you to find, gain and connect with […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: 10 Marketing Excuses That Can Kill Your Book and Career
Carolyn Howard-Johnson, our guest blogger today, has won eight awards for her first novel ‘This is the Place’, and her book of creative nonfiction, ‘Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered’, has won three. Her fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. Howard-Johnson is the recipient of the California Legislature’s Woman […]
Book Marketing Mondays: How To Get Your Book Mentioned In A Newspaper
Guest Expert: Tony Eldridge It is the dream of most authors to get their book reviewed in a major newspaper. But even the big ones are starting to cut back or eliminate reviews. And the ones that are still doing reviews tend to only do so on books published by the largest publishers. But that […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: Do blurbs matter?
Bob Sutton is a professor at Stanford University and the author of a best-selling book (caution: you may be offended by its title) called The No Asshole Rule. Prof Sutton has also written other books that haven’t been best-sellers. The difference between the best-seller and the non-best-sellers: The best-seller had no blurbs, while the non-best-sellers […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Carolyn Griffiths – Author of ‘FEATHERED SERPENTS’
Carolyn Griffiths was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1960. The daughter of Warren and Sheila McDaniel. She lived her entire childhood in the small town of Atchison, Kansas most noted for the famed female pilot Amelia Earhart and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. Writing since childhood she often found herself immersed in […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: Start Your Online Book Promotion Strategy Before You Finish Your Book
Our guest blogger this week is Phyllis Zimbler Miller; she has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, is the co-founder of the Internet marketing company Miller Mosaic, LLC, and is the author of the novel “Mrs. Lieutenant” and the co-author of the Jewish holiday book “Seasons for Celebration.” SPECIAL OFFER: Read about the Miller Mosaic […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Author April L. Hamilton
April L. Hamilton is an author, blogger, Technorati BlogCritic, leading advocate and speaker for the indie author movement, and founder of Publetariat, the premier online news hub and community for indie authors and small imprints. She’s spoken at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference and the Writers Digest Business of Getting Published conference. Recently, she […]