Gary is a novelist living in the northeast of England. His work, largely literary fiction, focuses on themes that touch us all — love, death, loss and aspiration — but always with an eye to finding an unusual angle or viewpoint. Quirky and highly readable, his writing aims to entertain first and foremost. If he […]
A Delightful Email from Author Jim Musgrave
Today, we received an email from author Jim Musgrave who says, “Just a line or two to tell you that I sold four Kindle books and two paperback books in the first week I had them at BookBuzzr. That’s more marketing sales than I have ever had spending thousands of dollars on online campaigns and […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Author Kaylin McFarren
Linda Yoshida, writing as Kaylin McFarren, minored in English in college and for the past twenty years has led PR/marketing efforts for several companies within her family’s international conglomerate. She is a wife and mother of three, and resides in Oregon. In addition to serving on numerous foundations and boards, she actively works with multi-published […]
Team BookBuzzr celebrates Holi festival
Team BookBuzzr celebrated Holi – an Indian festival where friends smear color on each other. Here’s a sampling of the madness in our office yesterday!
‘Conducting Effective Twitter Contests’: a product by Tony Eldridge
‘Conducting Effective Twitter Contests’ a new product by Tony Eldridge launches tomorrow March 1st 2010. It is an innovative learning method that combines traditional e-book and video training into one effective way to learn. Tony says this material will help the author or professional make their Twitter account more productive. It does this by using […]
‘Spirit Authors’ a membership site for authors: Grand Opening tomorrow
Lynn Serafinn a BookBuzzr author is launching Spirit Authors and we at BookBuzzr would like to wish her the best! Spirit Authors is a membership site that will provide a comprehensive, inclusive, community-based programme for aspiring, first-time and experienced mind-body-spirit authors, to enable them to transform their personal dream into a life-changing business asset in […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Author Dan Holloway
Dan Holloway is a Year Zero Writer; Organiser of the Free-e-day indie culture festival; blogger promoting the interests of readers and writers throughout the world and cyberspace; futurologist of publishing. Author of literary fiction; presenter of cultural studies papers; in search of a twenty-fifth hour in the day. BookBuzzr recently interviewed Dan Holloway who is […]
Twitter Lists: A Powerful Book Marketing Tool for Authors
Recently Freya – Author Community Manager was invited to be guest blogger on Tony Eldridge’s Book Marketing Tips for Authors Blog. Being our resident twitter expert her post is about how Twitter has proven to be a great book marketing tool and ‘Lists’ their latest feature only enhances its potential. Read her post: Twitter Lists: […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Bronwyn Schweigerdt – Author of ‘Free To Eat: The Proven Recipe For Permanent Weight Loss’
Bronwyn “Fiber-Girl” Schweigerdt is the most entertaining authority on nutrition that you’ve ever heard. Bronwyn has a Master’s degree in nutrition from Tufts University, is an author, columnist but most of all, an amazing speaker. She has literally helped thousands of people learn how to lose weight with her seminar and previous book: The UnDiet: […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Author Aggie Villanueva
Writing since the late 70′, Aggie Villanueva’s first novel, Chase the Wind, Thomas Nelson 1983, was published before she was 30 and her second, Rightfully Mine, from Thomas Nelson in 1986. Rightfully Mine has been republished. For more information/photos/trailers see rightfullymine. Villanueva freelanced throughout the 80s, also writing three craft columns and three software review […]
The Eighth (and Biggest) Book Marketing Mistake: Assuming Everyone Likes to Read
The following post is by Chetan Dhruve – Author of Why Your Boss is Programmed to be a Dictator If book-marketing mistakes were destructive bombs, this mistake would be the nuclear bomb. Yet, this mistake is so obvious in retrospect that it makes me want to scream. When my book first came out, I was […]