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 […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: How To Be A Multi-Media Author and Stand Out From The Crowd
Guest Expert: Joanna Penn As authors and writers we focus on text based marketing because that is what we are good at and comfortable with. However, all other authors focus on the same thing and if you want to stand out from the crowd in marketing your book, then you could consider multi-media options. Here […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Authors Rebecca Fox And William Sherman
Rebecca (Becky) Fox and her husband William (Bill) Sherman are the authors of the novel Measure By Measure, a romantic romp for the fabulously fat. They met at a wedding in 1982, fell first in lust and then in love, and ultimately married beneath the June skies at the Temple of the Trees in Central […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: Creating A Marketing Hub
Starting today, every Wednesday we will host Book Marketing Experts who will share their knowledge and views with our BookBuzzr authors and readers. Through this new section they will share marketing tips and techniques. We will also have authors sharing their learning and experience in book marketing. Without further ado let me handover to our […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Fiona Ingram – Author of ‘The Secret Of The Sacred Scarab’
BookBuzzr recently interviewed Fiona Ingram who is the author of the book ‘The Secret Of The Sacred Scarab’ which was nominated a Finalist in the Children’s/Juvenile Fiction section of the USA 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, as well as the USA National Best Books 2009 Awards. It was nominated a winner in the 2009 […]
Team BookBuzzr Attends Amway Presentation
It was a bright sunny day and Bangalore had just got cooler with rainfall over the last 2 days. Compared to other days the climate was good enough that we did not need the airconditioner in the office. For us it was just another day of regular work trying to meet deadlines for the massive […]
Scribd vs BookBuzzr: An author’s perspective
[A few days ago I came across Joel Friedlander’s post – Getting Started with Scribd.com and passed it on to friends. One thing led to another and soon I was asking our in-house author Chetan Dhruve for his opinion. What he had to say would be of interest to most authors so, over to Chetan. […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Myne Whitman – Author of ‘A HEART TO MEND’
Nkem Akinsoto aka Myne Whitman is a Nigerian writer/editor based in Seattle, USA, and currently writes on her website mynewhitman. Her blog runs a web-based naija blogsville interactive story on www.mynewhitmanwrites.com. The blog started out with excerpts from a manuscript she was writing which she has now self-published via AuthorHouse. The author grew up during […]
Review: Conducting Twitter Contests by Tony Eldridge
Phew! I’ve just gone through Tony Eldridge’s Conducting Twitter Contests and first reaction; Wow! It’s been a quick skim but I already know that I’m going to go back for more. Tony has used a novel way to present his topic; he uses text and video so, you can read; absorb, and then watch and […]
Brand New Category: Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips
It’s been a little over two months since we started the BookBuzzr blog. Our objective of creating this blog was to share marketing techniques, tips, books, authors, experts, etc. with our growing community of 4000+ authors and 9000+ Twitter followers. BookBuzzr was born in the mind of an author based on his needs. Since the […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Author Ana Antunes
Ana Antunes wrote poems and short-stories for an anthology by Mackenzie Publishing. She finished high school in “Translator and Interpreter in English” at Mackenzie Institute. She graduated in Arts with License in Artistic Education at the University in Sao Paulo (FAAP), in French at Alliance Francaise, and Ballet with honour in artistic merit. She performed […]