By Scott Lorenz (@aBookPublicist) Authors are always looking for low cost and easy ways to promote their books and I think you’ll appreciate this tip from Scott Lorenz. As a book publicist I am always on the lookout for effective inexpensive ways to reach book buyers. One way is to tap into the power of […]
Make More Money as Multiple-Book Author
Are you patting yourself on the back for producing your first eBook—or even for coming up with your first book idea and for setting the goal of blogging it and publishing it in the near future? Guess what? The majority of authors don’t make any “real” money until they’ve published at least three books! Hybrid […]
Great Tool to Get More eBook Sales
By Ben Murray (@akbooster) Many people think it’s easy to produce an ebook. You can just slap something up on the Amazon Kindle platform and hope for the best. It’s better, however, to do your research first. That includes finding the right niche, the correct keywords, and later, when the ebook has been released, some […]
How My Blog Saved Me From the Publishers’ Slush Pile
For years—as in a lot of years—I tried to land a traditional book publishing deal. No luck. Not that I didn’t get great feedback on my ideas, writing, book titles, and book proposals. I did. Every bit of positive feedback, however, came with that dreaded word: “But.” It was followed by six more words: “But…you […]
Essential Plugins and Widgets for Blogs and Blogged Books
A WordPress.org blog comes with the essentials. You might call these the basics—some widgets and plugins. To make your blog run smoothly and efficiently with less work on your part, add plugins. If you are blogging a book, also install specific plugins to help your visitors read the book. Plugins add features to your site […]
How to Structure Your Nonfiction Blogged Book
You’ve got an idea for a blogged nonfiction book. Maybe you’ve even brainstormed some ideas for content, completed a mind map or come up with a tentative outline. Now you’re wondering about how to structure your book. It’s really not that difficult to create a structure for a nonfiction book. Although not all nonfiction books […]
7 Essentials for Every Start-Up Book Publisher
If you are like most aspiring authors, the idea of becoming a published author probably excites you. Even if you are planning to produce a book to boost your business, adding “author” to your credentials could represent the fulfillment of a dream you’ve had your whole life or might catapult you into the ranks of […]
How to Use Surveys to Discover Marketable Book Topics
To produce a marketable book, one that will sell to potential readers in your target market, you need to write something those people need or want. However, often aspiring writers don’t put words on paper (or screen) because they don’t know what their potential readers actual need or want. In other words, they don’t know […]
How and Why to Blog a Romance Novel
The world of blogging might never be the same after I write this post. Why? Because I’m going to suggest that romance writers get on board and start blogging books. That’s right…take those great hot men and women on the covers of those romance novels and plaster them all over your blogs. Then, instead of […]
The Pros and Cons of Blogging a Completed Manuscript
It’s not uncommon for writers with completed manuscripts to want to blog their projects. In their quest for ways to promote their work, they discover the “blog-a-book” concept and think it might work well even though they will skip a major step in the process. They won’t write, publish and promote their work but rather […]
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