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February 25, 2016
Great Alternatives to BookBub
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SelfPublishingReview compiled a great list of alternatives – or better choices to the 800-lb Gorilla in book advertising via email newsletters – also called the “Groupon for ebooks”: Bookbub is very expensive (between $65 and US$2.400 in average) and accepts only 10-20% of book applications to advertise, mostly during free Kindle ebook or reduced-book-campaigns.
Their dreaded email answer looks something like this: “The editorial team reviews all the submissions that meet our minimum guide...
February 23, 2016
Beware! Read What Fellow Writers Can Teach You
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Brooke Warner,author and publisher, writes on Huffington Post: “Most writers have traditional publishing aspirations. They want an agent to fall in love with their project and champion their work; they’re looking for the external validation of being accepted by a publishing house; their fantasies about getting published involve a red carpet experience that’s increasingly elusive in this industry.” But she also cautions: “Be vigilant, self-advocating, and savvy during this process.”
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Be Ca...
February 21, 2016
Why Share Your Google+ Posts “Privately”?
I just found a great and very useful post of one of my favored peers on Google+ and clicked on the SHARE icon – which is a right-turning arrow on Google+, when a window came up:
“This post was originally shared privately. Be thoughtful about who you re-share it with. You can’t reshare it publicly.”
Well, I should have seen it, before hitting the sharing button: under her name appeared “Shared privately”.
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Going back to her timeline, I found this “Shared privately” on all her articles she p...
February 18, 2016
Winter Blues? 3 Writers Who Will Motivate You
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Jack Canfield has launched 47 New York Times Bestsellers and sold over 500 million books worldwide – on the NYT bestseller list. Time Magazine called it the “publishing phenomenon of the decade”. If not him, who else could motivate you? Enjoy this 7-minute video with tips for new authors from Jack Canfield. He tells how he went from inner city school teacher to bestselling author, persevering through 144 rejections, until a small, self-help publisher in Florida called HCI, published the bo...
February 16, 2016
What Writers Can Deduct from Taxes
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April 18, 2016 … You know what this deadline means for US-citizens? Yes, income tax return! They are due latest on this day. And it’s only a couple of weeks until then… Tax season is already in full swing. Don’t wait until the last minute.
Writers are presumed to be a professional if their writing made a profit in at least three out of the last five tax years, including the current year. Which means: Not more than two years of expenses that are higher than the author income.
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Consideratio...
February 14, 2016
33 Tips on How to Get More Followers on Social Media
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Did you know that only 1% of all your followers will see your tweet or post at any given time?
So, joining Goodreads, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest andFacebook is only the first step in creating an author platform. Social media growth is more likely to happen when you are focusing on sharing amazing quality content that you know your audience loves. To make these sites really work for you is only possible if you have lots of followers, friends or people in your Google+ circles.
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February 12, 2016
How to Get an Author Radio Interview
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Founded in 1996, ArtistFirst was the first radio network ever to use the combination of the internet, web streaming and podcast archiving to promote Independent Artists. The current average listenership to “The Authors-First Show” on ArtistFirst Radio is over 84,000 per show and rising! More than 220 million listeners have enjoyed ArtistFirst Radio in the past two years.
Authors-First Show is a LIVE one-hour prime-time worldwide radio broadcast about you and your book
on the ArtistFirst Wo...
How to Get a Radio Interview
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Founded in 1996, ArtistFirst was the first network ever to use the combination of the internet, web streaming and podcast archiving to promote Independent Artists. The current average listenership to “The Authors-First Show” on ArtistFirst Radio is over 84,000 per show and rising! More than 220 million listeners have enjoyed ArtistFirst Radio in the past two years.
Authors-First Show is a LIVE one-hour prime-time worldwide radio broadcast about you and your book
on the ArtistFirst World Ra...
February 9, 2016
Latest Author Earnings Report: ebook, print, audio
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The first graphic in the latest report by Author Earnings shows that in two short years, the market share of paid unit sales between indie and the “Big 5” e-books has more than inverted.
The Big 5 now account only for less than a quarter of e-book purchases on Amazon, while books by independent authors are closing in on a whopping forty-five percent.
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E-book dollars earned by Big 5 publishers also shrunk, despite the greater profitability of e-books over print books. Overall, US e-book sa...
February 7, 2016
Canadian Writers and Publishers are Spoiled!
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The Canadian government is supporting and fostering literature, writers and publishers – and even ISBN’s are FREE in Canada! The Federal Government as well as the provinces are offering lots of benefits,there is a huge list of government grants and support for writers and publishers. For example:
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PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT PROGRAM
Canadian authors receive approx. $10 Million per year/ in average $600, and up to $3,500. The Canada Council for the Arts distributes annual payments to Canadian au...
