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April 17, 2015
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April 14, 2015
What Can You Do if Your Book is Pirated?
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Having read about websites that steal booksand sell them on a (foreign hosted) website is already very disturbing, but to see a clients book sold this way is another story. I dug into this topic and thinking about Amazon’s copyright checks when uploading a book, I really found a useful page on Amazon’s website, how to proceed as a victim of these thieves. But not only Amazon, Google also can help you, or a skilled copyright lawyer.
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Californian bestselling author Molly Greenalso found h...
April 12, 2015
Editorial Reviews on Your Amazon Sales Page
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Browsing through the Amazon sales pages of asuccessfulindependent multi-book author, I discovered that on each of his book’s pages instead of the “Editorial Review” only a short description “About the author” was placed. As there is already a section for an author bio on the page, he could have placed either or all of these:
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How to update Editorial Revi...
April 9, 2015
Social Media Networking Made Easy
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Social Media Marketing: is the most powerful way of letting people know about your book. It is NOT selling, it is networking and meeting future readers. Almost every writer feels overwhelmed when they start out with social media and find it difficult to learn all these new sites – questioning even if it does have something to do with the success of their book. But how else will you find readers who order your book through online retailers?
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Don’t Feel Overwhelmed!
Neither from the publi...
April 7, 2015
3 Habits of Famous Writers
You may have heard that Stephen King has a writing quota of at least 2,000 words a day, whileArthur Conan Doyle wrote 3,000 words a day. But you might be surprised thatTruman Capote wrote laying down. Ernest Hemingway on the other hand wrote standing on a high desk. See more habits of famous writers:
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Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics
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Famous writers are also often open to help aspiring newbies, such as:
Make your ownoffice—whatever it is to haveyour own writing...April 5, 2015
How to Prepare Your Book for Publishing
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Abrilliant poster at a print shop / book designer offered: “Pick Any Two, I Pick One”
It showeda triangle and on each tip had one of these words: Money – Quality – Time/Speed
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The Unattainable Triangle – Speed, Quality and Price.
Branding experts refer to the “unattainable triangle” as composed of quality, price, and speed. All products or services have two out of the three sides of the triangle. That is to say, high-quality and fast turn-around but high-price or low-price, fast-turnaro...
April 2, 2015
How to Get Reviews Before Book Launch?
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Brand new books from trade publishers have almost always reviews and endorsement at the time of book launch. You might wonder: How is this possible?
New author-publishers can learn a lot in book stores and libraries: Check out how professionally published books look like: Many of these trade books have either on their back cover (paperback) or on the binding flap (hard cover) several snippets of the book reviews, as well as endorsements from bestselling writers or other professionals, that...
March 31, 2015
Self-Publishing? YES, You Can!
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Take the Plunge!
Today I received an email from a client that her latest business thriller – set in the world of tax and corporate finance, a tale of murder, fraud, and paranoia – just launched. I was happy to read in her email: “This time you’ll be pleased to know I published completely independently and what a joy it is to be in complete control!”
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Knowing that she was a high-ranking manager, I never understood that she used the services of a vanity publisher for her first book. This...
March 29, 2015
Photoshop Your Images for FREE?
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Thanks to Cynthia LaLuna I found the next best thing to my expensive Photoshop program that rests currently on an older computer: During the last years I had changed several models of computers and laptops – not being able to switch this prohibitive expensive Photoshop program to more than three devices. Sure Adobe wants to sell more of its premium software – but this can also backslash – dozens of new and mostly free programs offer image enhancements.
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Webresizer Tool
“Real” graphic d...
March 26, 2015
5 Published Books – 5 Years – or 10,000 Hours
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Building up your readershiptakes lots of time, so it is surprising, that some authors dream of their first book as a potential bestseller, and don’t realize that it takes a long time and hard work to get an audience, one reader at a time – especially if they did not do the groundwork to build a huge following onSocial Media, and through blogging, as well as in reader forums or in real-life, before they start publishing.
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Bestseller Authors Need Years
Remember the 10,000-hour Rule. That’...
