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June 21, 2015
11 Tips How to Organize a Book Sales Campaign
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Launch, Photo Credit: NASA
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I have seen it too often, that authors decide one morning to have a book sale from the next dayon and expect it to be a successful one. Or they hurry editing, formatting and slap a cover image together, in order to get the book on Amazon’s sales pages before Christmas. The minimum you can do to make it a success:
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1. Start EARLY !!!
You have about three months to promote a new print book (paper back or hardcover) before the bookstores clear their shelves for t...
June 18, 2015
It All Sounds so Familiar …
Parallels Between ScreenWriting and NovelWriting
When I read an article this morning on how to sell a screenplay on Jane Friedman’s blog – adapted from ScratchMag – I found so many parallels between the movie industry and publishing, that I just had to compare it right away.
Selling a movie script needs to be well planned and executed, and networking is a huge part of it. Here are some tips from Friedman’s blog how to pitch a movie and the similarities to books:
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An Unknown Screen Writer...
June 16, 2015
Want to Know How Your Books Are Ranking?
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Years ago bestselling authorAaron Shepardcreated an Amazon Sales Rank website for all “Amazon Countries”. He has been making big changes now at Sales Rank Express, which is not only a sales rank checker, book monitor, but also amarket research tool.
Shepard writes: “While it has long been usable only on desktops and laptops, I have finally redesigned it to adapt to the smaller screens and often slower connections of tablets and phones. Now you can use it just about anywhere. At the same...
June 15, 2015
The Secret of Professional Author-Publishing
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Want to be Seen as a Serious Self-Publishing Author?
Don’t go further than to the next library or bookstore and check out trade-published books! And even a quick online search on books from one of the “Big Five” on Amazon (through the “Look Inside” function) Kobo or iBooks will give you all the information you need to prepare your book professionally for the publishing process.
You will discover that trade books’ first pages are set up in this sequence:
half-title page series title titl...June 11, 2015
Free Market Research for Authors
Authors who use crowdfunding to finance the production costs of their book get for free what industries pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for: MARKET RESEARCH
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Proponents of the crowd funding approach argue that it allows good ideas – which do not always necessarily fit the pattern, required by conventional financiers – to break through and attract cashvia this funding method. It iscertainly an amazing opportunity as one of the starting steps in the publishing process.
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Many Benefits,...
June 9, 2015
12 Principles Of Highly Successful Authors
Why not learning from and replicate the habits and qualities of some of the most famous, wealthiest, and most celebrated authors in the world? Why not harness the power of these principles for your own success as an author?
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Be self-confident – believe in the possibility of your own success.
If you don’t believe in yourself, why should anyone else? To be successful you need to hone your writing craft enough to become really successful.
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Commit to writing.
It might sound obvious, but a wr...
June 7, 2015
Even More Competition for Your Book…
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Wikipedia has a list of new book titles (with ISBN and in print) from a number of countries*. Which means lots of competition – and all these statistics are not even including self-published books – and not themillions of already existing titles! Bowker reported: “Self-Published Books Topped 450,000 in 2013” (the latests stats) – but again, this number only contains print books, and those with an ISBN number – while many author-published books have neither.
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Readers enjoy a virtually un...
June 4, 2015
Online Purchase: How to Find the Best Deals?
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If I need a new laptop, an air-conditioner, an office lamp or something else, I don’t just click on “buy”, when purchasing online – even if I compared prices before on Amazon, or used their app mobile application for iPhone and iPod. I try to stretch my dollars even further, using a list of deal-finders in order to save money when buying online.
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Coupon Codes and Deal Finders
Especially for online shoppers, theyare the hottest tools on the web. Make sure you’re getting the best price po...
June 2, 2015
17 Guidelines How to Write Book Reviews
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Reading book reviews, receiving book reviews for your own work, discussing book reviews – it never leaves you cool. And now you are asked to write a review or you acknowledged to “beta-read” an upcoming book.
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You might have questions, such as:
What should the review contain? Can I really voice my opinion? What are the do’s and don’ts of reviews?.
Review Writing Techniques
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While Reading:
Take notes while reading the book, including the page number of interesting content, to make th...
May 31, 2015
What I Learned About Social Media, the Hard Way
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21 things you need to know in order to avoid social media pitfalls. Here isthelist, some ofwhich I learned the hard way, so you wouldn’t have to:
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