Guest Expert: Karlene Blakemore-Mowle My dream was always to write a book and have it accepted by a publisher. After many years of rejections and the constant learning curve that just didn’t seem to end! my dream finally came true, eleven years after completing my first book. I’m not sure if I’m on my own […]
Stop Press! The Hunger Games Festival is Coming Soon on Freado.com!
What is it? An online book festival for fans of the Hunger Games trilogy with over 30 prizes to be won in 21 days. If you are a BookBuzzr Pro Author targeting the teen or YA market, this is a fantastic opportunity to find new readers for your book. When is it? April 10th to […]
New Easter Egg Landing Themes from BookBuzzr
This Easter, wish visitors to your website in a unique way with new Easter landing page widgets from BookBuzzr. All landing page themes from BookBuzr now come in two sizes. One size is a large, overlay screen (useful when you really want to get the attention of your visitors such as when you are doing […]
What Can I DO With My App & Where are Marketplaces?
Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva What Can I DO With My App? You MARKET, just as you do with your websites online. Notice one of the sections in my app image to the left is the “Library,” where I sell my books. (In-depth marketing capabilities later in this series.) Apps gather the contact information of those […]
Announcing the New Landing Page Widget Technology from BookBuzzr
At BookBuzzr, we’ve been working for over 2 years with thousands of authors with just one goal in mind – get them to find more readers and sell more books through the use of innovative technologies. Our research showed that one of the major challenges an author faces is in grabbing the attention of their […]
If You Build It & They Don’t Come
Guest Expert: W. Terry Whalin Years ago when I launched my first website, I worked hard at all of the details of this site—the functionality, the appearance and the contents. I was convinced this website would sell tons of books and generate terrific amounts of new writing business. I was stuck in fantasy and not […]
Using mind maps to write & finish your book on time
Guest Expert: Roger C. Parker Time management plays a crucial, but often over-looked, role in writing and publishing success. Authors absolutely, positively must finish the first draft of their book on time. A 90% complete manuscript is not enough! The first draft has to be finished before the manuscript can be edited and taken to […]
My KDP Select Free Experiment: 3 days free, & the aftermath
Guest Expert: Laura Pepper As part of the KDP Select Program, where books become available to borrow as part of the Kindle library lending program, authors/publishers can also set the book price for free for up to 5 days out of every 90. This can be 5 consecutive days, or it can be broken up […]
What is an App & Why Do I Need One?
Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva What is an App? Apps are short for mobile application programs that are created to replace internet websites/blogs for smartphone users. Along with the ability to purchase your books/products, apps offer the reader something for free, just as your sites/blogs do on the internet. This gives them a reason to keep […]
What Shall I Write About?
Guest Expert: Anne M. Strick Sometimes writers worry about what their next subject might be. And sometimes that subject is right under their noses. Once in a while, it hasn’t even been written about before. That is what happened to me. That is where three of my recent books come from: ALL the DOORS to […]
Who Should Blog and Why?
Guest Expert: C Kay Brooks Regardless of whether you are ‘only’ a reader, a budding author ‘wantabee’ or a published author, you should consider owning a website and posting blogs. As a reader, you can challenge yourself personally as to how much you read and document what you read while making new friends along the […]