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Published on February 20, 2014 19:04

15 More Online Retailers to Sell Your Book

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Authors: you can sell your books, e-books and audio-books not only through Amazon, but as well on Barnes&Noble, Apple and Kobo websites, to have your “eggs in more than one basket”. And don’t forget the potentially huge market for hard cover books, selling them to libraries!

However, there are way more online retailers for e-books and books than just Apple , Sony, Diesel, Kobo or Barnes & Noble. Oh, yes, and even Google sells e-books, but they pay authors and publishers a lousy royalty. I don’t know anyone, selling books through Google.

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Just to mention a few more online book retailers:

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And here are two more lists of online book stores with even more sales possibilities:

http://www.infoagepub.com/iap-ebook-retailers.html

http://www.the-ebook-reader.com/ebooks.html

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Put Your Eggs Not Only in One Basket

If you don’t want to upload your book yourself, get help from these aggregators for one yearly fee and reap 100% of your books revenue: BookBaby.com or eBookPartnership.com. Aggregators will handle distribution, sales, accepting payments, and are managing your account with the online retailers.

Avoid aggregators who take a 10 or even 15% commission for every book sold.

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Or visit http://www.e-book-pr.com/book-promo/ to advertise your new book, specials, your KDP Select Free Days or the new Kindle Countdown Deals.

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Published on February 19, 2014 18:02

How Bookmarks Promote Your Books

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Samples from http://www.uprinting.com

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Sometimes I get a blank stare from younger clients at our Seminars when talking about business cards and bookmarks, these essentials to hand-out at book signings or at book fairs and writers conferences. Business cards are a familiar item but bookmarks? No, they have nothing to do with bookmarking and filing a URL address of a website : )

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What is a Bookmark?

Bookmarks are around for centuries and are used to mark the page were a reader ended – or better where she/he wants to continue to read next time they open their book. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia says:

Bookmark ”A Bookmark is a thin marker, commonly made of card, leatherette, or fabric, used to … As the first printed books were quite rare and valuable, it was determined …”

In the past bookmarks were made out of thin metal, fabrik or paper and artfully decorated. I once received a bookmark, made of silk and decorated with real pearls. Well, nowadays they are made of thin cardboard, gloss-finished or plastic-coated …. but still some are equipped with a small tassel or a ribbon for easy use.

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Hand Out Bookmarks as Small Gifts

Instead of handing out a business card, give book lovers, friends, family, colleagues, acquaintances, book clubs and visitors at fairs or conferences this more casual, but very attractive symbol that ought to show the cover or another image from your books content. It should be colorful and artistic designed, printed on both sides, and show the title of your book in bold letters on the bookmarks top or bottom. And you certainly want the reader to visit your website or blog, so don’t forget to add the URL and also a link to your Amazon author page.

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Get Quotes

Ask not only your business card printer, but also search the Internet for price/quality comparisons. Here are just a few of many companies that offer bookmarks:

Book Mark Printing Samples and Designs of Custom Bookmarks

http://www.uprinting.com/bookmark-printing.html

Bookmark printing – start with a FREE proof. Did you know that most of our products have custom size options? Simply select “Custom Size” on the size drop down and specify.

www.printingforless.com/Bookmark-Printing-Samples.html?

Printed samples of book marks showing a variety of designs and layouts and ways to promote and market your business, product or cause with bookmarks.

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Can I create a bookmark in Publisher? – Publisher – Office.com

office.microsoft.com/…/can-i-create-a-bookmark-in-publisher-HA00123…?

Bookmark templates that you can use to create bookmarks for books. … Publications that are set up to print multiple copies per page, such as postcards, …

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Fast Bookmark Printing Vancouver, Digitally Printed Book-Marks …

clubcard.ca/product/full-colour-bookmarks-digital-printing?

Full Color Bookmarks Digitally Printed, FAST Turnaround! Choose from rush same day, next day or 2-3 business day production time. Digital printing is the …

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Free Printable Bookmarks for Children – Activity Village

www.activityvillage.co.uk/bookmarks?

We’ve got free printable bookmarks here for kids of all ages – great for teachers to hand out in class, parents to slip into a party bag, grandparents to use to …

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Longterm Advertisement – Promote Your Books

An attractive Bookmark will not be thrown away, as many business cards get after a while. It is a long term ad for you as an author and often kept for good in books. How about you? Did you add an image of your bookmark to your Amazon author page? You know that you can post several images – and this would be one to show proudly on your author page.

Tips from readers:

Stephen from LighthouseMediaWorks.com

Bookmarks should have a QR code so people can scan and buy your book directly from the card.

Marla from marlamadison.wordpress.com

Vistaprint does not have bookmarks but they have a wonderful postcard that costs only about 20-24 dollars for 250! Can’t beat it and it is a great thing to hand out when selling books at an event. They really help to promote your books to all the ereader people. They love it when you sign them for them!

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Or visit http://www.e-book-pr.com/book-promo/ to advertise your new book, specials, your KDP Select Free Days or the new Kindle Countdown Deals.

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Published on February 19, 2014 08:06

How these 3 Self-Publishing Tools Help Authors

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Improvements everywhere: New tools and technology for author-publishers will help to navigate the process from manuscript to finished print book or e-book more easily. Just to make sure you know what’s available for writers now:

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1. Scribd Subscription Service: The “Netflix” of e-Books

Read unlimited amounts of Books: Scribd launched an e-book subscription service for their readers at $8.99/month with unlimited access to books. Everyone enrolled in the subscription program gets e-books in bulk. Readers can try Scribd for free for one month, and are encourage to try unknown authors.

Distributing of your own e-books is offered in Scribd’s Subscription Program: “Contact us if you would like to make your e-books available via our subscription offering. Our content acquisition team would love to talk to you.”

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2. Bowker offers Self-Published Author resources

Bowker’s database of books in print is huge and their interface sometimes a bit clumbsy. After so many complaints from author-publishers, Bowker offers at least explanations for self-publishers e.g. how to fill out each field in their forms. But that’s not all: Bowker launched the Self-Published Author website, a great source of information with tools, advice, and resources to help authors through the publishing process.

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3. Templates for Book Layout – Interior Book Design

“The Book Designer” Joel Friedlander offers templates in Microsoft Word that look as good as books that are professionally designed in Adobe InDesign. A custom-designed interior book might cost between $1,000 and $4,000 , the print book template is less than $40. There are over a dozen Word templates and counting to choose from and more are coming. Add your manuscript and create a PDF to upload to CreateSpace, Lightning Source, or any printing company. Using the e-book template in this series for another $10 and upload it to Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, Apple iBooks, Kobo, Sony, B&N and others. All you need to know is how to apply styles in Word and how to copy/paste text. You certainly can customize your template. All you need to know is basic Word styles. Or you can hire a freelancer to help creating PDFs, upgrading or modifying templates and other tasks at Elance or Fiverr.

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Read about more tools in the publishing process, for example Dropbox:

http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/13359

For computer / software geeks and publishing professionals

http://voices.yahoo.com/top-5-software-programs-self-publishing-desktop-6465478.html?cat=15

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Or visit http://www.e-book-pr.com/book-promo/ to advertise your new book, specials, your KDP Select Free Days or the new Kindle Countdown Deals.

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Published on February 17, 2014 20:39

Book Sales Plateau – 13 Tips What You Can Do!

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First-time writers are often puzzled when after a very successful book launch and many book sales, their ranking on Amazon drops and their sales numbers dwindle over time – which is a totally normal process, even for bestseller authors. So what can you do as a writer – besides writing your next manuscript:

Your book has been launched months ago or even last year and you had great sales numbers. NOW readers need to see something NEW from you. It doesn’t need to be a whole new book:

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The three main assets you have already

your writing skills
the content you already wrote
the research you have done for your book(s) can be used to write at least 20 – 30 articles or blog posts – and if regularly posted on Google+ it is raising your Search Engine Ranking on Google tremendously.

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1. Use the manuscript text from your “old” book to split it into tiny portions and write lots of short blogs / articles from the content – along with a two sentence bio and a link to your webpage or Amazon author / sales page. Make use of your assets! Which means not only your book, but using all the research notes and text, you have compiled to write it. Make it a habit to post/publish content at least two – three times a week!

More benefits of writing content:

- it is a subtle way to promote your book

- you receive valuable back links to your website or blog

- you will have lots of possibilities to post on Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Facebook….

- include links to your articles in email newsletter (that you hopefully send out regularly to your readers)

Post these articles on your blog or contribute guest blogs to other sites that are focused on the same topics as your book.

Content is used to draw in your ideal readers / reviewers, it will link to your book sales page or your website and it helps a lot to build a platform. Last but not least it gives you a lot of material to post and to tweet. The result: you will increase your exposure, show your writing skills, grow a loyal following and attract reviewers – in one sentence: you will achieve success with your writing – and in many cases, even get paid for it.

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2. Rewrite these articles a bit, add more material and offer them to magazines, newspapers etc., starting with Airline Inflight Magazines, Huffington Post and Salon.com etc., even The Atlantic could be interested if it is a longer article with great content. Focus more on discoverability rather than selling. Your work is important, so help readers to find it.

World-famous bestseller writers, such as Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Atwood, Tom Chiarella, Gloria Steinem and Stephen King did it: Writing occasionally short stories and magazine articles – before blogs became fashionable. In several former posts I explained in detail how easy it is for writers to create content, such as blog articles and sell them to magazines and newspapers or write guest blogs. Read more about brilliant book marketing and content writing, check out the links below.

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3. You Need More Potential Readers

Are you really adding at least 25 new followers per day to your Social Media networks? You often can add more, 25 is the restriction on Goodreads, but Google+ for example allows you to follow up to 5,000 people. However, don’t choose just anyone: type into the search function: booklover, avid reader, reviewer, book blogger… you get the point? These are the folks who might be interested in your book – and tell other about it. Make it a habit to add EVERY DAY new followers to each one of your Social Media sites. Future book campaigns will only be successful if you have enough fans!

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4. Post and Tweet more about borrowing your book for Prime Members. After all you earn money with each lending (approx. $2 per book). Every day new customers sign up for Amazon’s Prime membership program.

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What’s More:

5. Post something new on your website at least once or twice a week

6. Plan and create an email campaign to potential readers

7. Book Signings end Readings bookstores, museums or literary cafes

8. Readings at libraries & book clubs or Meetup Groups

9. Participate in Writing Contests (national and international)

10. Write a prequel for your next book and add a link to the first one

11. Join HARO (Help a Reporter out) to make yourself a name as an expert in your field

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12. As soon as your next book is written, contact the library distributors, read the useful blog article from SavvyBookWriters.com/blog with lots of tips and links how to sell your book to libraries.

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13. You Might Need More Distribution:

Use BookBaby or .eBookpartnership for example, to place your book on all Amazon’s Kindle Stores: US, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, Brazil, Japan, India etc . In North America: Apple, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Ingram. In Europe to: Askews & Holts, Blackwell’s, BlioBook, Depository, Kalahari.net, Waterstones, Whitcoulls, WH Smith. Their yearly fee is less than $100 and you can save LOTS of hours for uploading your book, for accounting with these retailers and if you work on Windows, to use a Mac computer (for upload to Apple). Best of all, they do not take commissions, such as with Smashword for example. You keep 100% of the revenue from online retail. However, you should buy your own ISBN’s, preferably a block of ten, and don’t forget to register your book worldwide with Bowker’s database, which goes to all bookstores and libraries in the world.

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Don’t forget:

If you have only one book there is nothing that readers can actually buy from you, after they have read your book! The only benefit is the lending program for Prime Members that gives you some revenue – but only if you have priced it higher than $2.99, as readers usually prefer to borrow higher-priced books. And: marketing means not only sales campaigns … so do everything to show your potential readers a bit of content that leads to your book. The key to success is confidence in yourself, persistence, and also knowing what you want!

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SECRET:

Your first book will very often increase in sales as a result of a successful launch of your second book. Every time you launch a new book, it has an impact on past titles, if they are written for the same audience.

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to advertise your new book, specials, your KDP Select Free Days or the new Kindle Countdown Deals.

Please check out all previous posts of this blog (there are more than 1,010 of them : ) if you haven’t already. Why not sign up to receive them regularly by email? Just click on “Follow” in the upper line on each page – and then on “LIKE” next to it. There is also the “SHARE” button underneath each article where you can submit the article to Pinterest, Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and StumpleUpon.

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Published on February 16, 2014 19:35

Damaging Self-Judgment of Writers?

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Candace Habte: “A few weeks ago when I first heard about the Insecure Writers Support Group, my first thought was this is a cool idea. As humans, we have all felt insecure about something. And writers, despite what we may like to think, are certainly human. My second emotion was frustration, even resentment. I thought, great, all we need is more stereotypes. I imagined cyber minions turning the twitter hashtag #ISWG into #whinywriters or #getarealjobthen.”

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I Soon Realized the Reason for my Thought Pattern

“I was projecting how I sometimes perceive that I am viewed. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve dealt with a lot of people (even family and friends) that were downright rude when it comes to my life as a writer.

It’s been said that you are not a writer until you get your first rejection. My first rejection came in the 10th grade (my high school literary journal – I’m over it, really) so I guess I am a veteran. Well I would say that when you get your first weird stare, question about your life (you know the, “Okay, but what do you really do?”) it ranks right up there with rejection. I have had my share of both rejection and also judgment. But to be honest, the latter bothered me the most.”

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Damaging Self-Judgment

“But I’m beginning to realize how much more damaging self-judgment can be. So let me explain: A few years ago I took my first yoga class. My teacher was the best, the class bonded, I did poses I didn’t think I could do, and I felt strong in body and spirit. I pretty much reaped all the benefits of yoga. It was

amazing.

Did I mention everyone in my class was fat? No, I’m not being mean. Everyone, including myself at the

time, was overweight or obese because the class was targeted for that demographic. Of course, no one

was being turned away for being smaller, but the class name (it had the word “belly” in it, if I recall

correctly) and description were definitely geared towards those of us who needed to lose some weight. It wasn’t about losing the weight in the class, though despite what some people think about yoga (you can lose weight with certain types of yoga) but that’s not the point…”

“So imagine my insecurity, having never before taken a yoga class, barely flexible, and a little “extra to

love”. Yes, the class was targeted towards bigger people, but the studio was still filled with mostly slim

yogis. Okay, I wasn’t going to add this part but guess what? I ended up being one of the smaller people

there. Ironically, this fact made me feel more insecure. Because now I was the only “sort-of-fat” girl in a “fat girl (and guy)” class sharing stories of what it’s like to be fat. I could feel myself getting the roll of the eyes. Was this actually happening? Probably not. My instructor and fellow students were some of the nicest, most encouraging, genuine and absolutely hilarious folks I have ever met.”

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Our Recording

“So what does all of this have to do with writing, or better yet, being an insecure writer? Well besides my pre-class insecurities that were pretty much assuaged before the end of the first class, I learned a really important concept from my instructor: the recording. We all have one.

This may sound insensitive, but if you have ever been called stupid, fat, skinny, lazy, worthless, etc. it

doesn’t matter. Okay, it matters but not as much as we make it. For the record, I’m not talking about

being bullied or harassed. Meaning someone or some group is excessively trying to make you feel like

crap. That’s always wrong. And that’s an entirely different topic. But no one has gone through life without someone putting them down in some way, intentionally or not.”

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“The reason? It doesn’t matter, because it is our recording that keeps it alive. Our recording – if you haven’t guessed – is the mental record that we repeat to ourselves, yearly, monthly, weekly, or even daily. This is why we can hold on to stuff from high school (or grade school) even after many years have passed. We hold on to words said by people who we have no contact with anymore. We hold on to words said by people who aren’t even alive anymore.”

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How We Keep Our Recording Alive

“We keep pressing “play”, over and over and over again: “Your writing is mediocre”, “You’ll never make it as … (fill in the blank), “You can write as a hobby, but not as a profession”, “Writing fiction is pointless”, “Blogging is stupid” etcetera etcetera.

No doubt, certain put-downs hurt more than others, and these are the ones that stick. Because the ones

that stick have made a home right next to our existing insecurities. Basically, we’re working off a blank

tape and adding our own damaging self-judgement as time moves forward.

Which is exactly what I was doing when I heard about the Insecure Writers Support Group: “Support

group? No way, I don’t need that. I don’t want to whine and hear other writers do the same.” People in other professions talk to their co-workers, complain about their boss, gripe to anyone in earshot and then they get back to work. Writers need that too. Then we can get back to our work of writing, mental recordings be damned.”

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About the Author:

Candace Habte published two books back in the “golden” days of self-publishing (2004 – 2009)

and somehow lived to tell about it. She looks forward to getting back in the self-publishing saddle this year with her first young adult novel. She lives in Maryland with her husband and their imaginary Yorkie. Find her at candacehabte.com where she blogs about writing, life, and all the awesome things in between.

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to advertise your new book, specials, your KDP Select Free Days or the new Kindle Countdown Deals.

Please check out all previous posts of this blog (there are more than 1,010 of them : ) if you haven’t already. Why not sign up to receive them regularly by email? Just click on “Follow” in the upper line on each page – and then on “LIKE” next to it. There is also the “SHARE” button underneath each article where you can submit the article to Pinterest, Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and StumpleUpon.

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Published on February 16, 2014 07:53

Interview with Author Dr. Patt Hollinger Pickett

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Dr. Patt Hollinger Pickett

Our Interview today is with Dr. Patt Hollinger Pickett, a licensed Family Therapist from St. Louis, Missouri, USA, who has written a fantastic book, that received already lots of praise and awards, and very positive reviews – many from other therapists, who recommend her book to their clients.

In September her self-help guide book The Marriage Whisperer was named the “Book of the Month” by MidWest Review. To learn more about Dr. Hollinger and her work we asked her lots of questions:

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How would you describe your book to someone who has not yet read it?

My book, The Marriage Whisperer: Tips to Improve Your Relationship Overnight, explains readers how relationships of couples can be brought to the next level. It’s a self-help title, inspired by over 10,000 conversations I had with clients. It delivers 70 couple stories with humor and includes practical tips and tools for lasting relationship improvement. Popular themes like communication, habits, chores, arguments, sex, and intimacy are explored in easy-read tales. It showcases simple stories and delivers simple solutions. Lots of couples found themselves in the book, and could through humor identify themselves. It’s not a blaming book, it offers solutions to take their relationship to the next level.

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Is there a message in your book that you want your readers to grasp?

My primary message in the book is to keep your life in balance, something that is important to avoid marital neglect. Not having a balance in your life, such as work, marital life, family, hobbies etc. has long-term consequences for relationships.

“Will spend more time when …” we are in vacation, the kids are in school, the kids are out of the house, we are retired … NEVER works. If you don’t spent enough time together NOW, your interest changes and your attachment weakens. The challenge for couples is to find out how much is enough (time to spend together).

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What inspired you to start writing?

I am a Marriage Therapist for over 20 years, and often heard from my clients: “I never thought about it

The Marriage Whisperer

In seminars I asked: “Who wants a better marriage?” Barely anyone raised a hand… No one wanted to admit that their marriage was not in the best shape. However, now with my book reading it together with their partner, working together with the book, having debates and conversation / in a non-blaming, non-threatening way, couples can work on their relationship in privacy.

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Are your characters based on real people?

Yes, but certainly keeping their anonymity.

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What was the most difficult case you ever had.

Not one particularly, but often with couples where one thinks he/she is “right”, and constantly blaming the other person. The other stays either defensive, and argues, or the “yes, dear” person, who freezes in the relationship, and finally stepping out of it.

Challenge in therapy is to make people seeing their situation from a different angle, and opening up their line of thinking.

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Considering a book from the first word you write to the moment you see it on a bookstore shelf, what’s your favorite part of the process?

Hearing people that know me : “That’s just like you” And I wanted the book to be my voice and have my voice. I did my best to write it, like I talk with my clients.

What’s your least favorite part of writing a book?

The meticulous editing process.

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What is the best part of being a writer?

To be able to share what I have learned with a larger population.

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If you had to do it all over again, would you change anything about your book?

I would have written it sooner. But at that time I had other priorities and I wanted to keep my life in balance. Relationships are often struggling due to the lack of balance.

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What’s the most challenging part of being a writer?

Making the time to write.

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What is ONE thing that you have done that brought you more readers?

Speaking engagements! And presentations.

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Where’s the one place in the world you’d like to visit?

Egypt.

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What is your favorite book?

I like to cook and like to read cook books.

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How would a close friend describe you?

Very creative and honest to the point, without being insulting.

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What’s one thing that your readers would be surprised to know about you?

I am painting, do sewing, doing quilts, even a Firefighter T-shirt quilt. I am an avid gardener and love flowers and being a home gourmet cook. I am not a perfectionist.

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Meet Dr. Patt Hollinger Pickett and her book here too:

Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6456762.Patt_Hollinger_Pickett

Amazon Paperback, 214 pages, $18.40

http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Whisperer-Patt-Hollinger-Pickett/dp/1933455659

Authors BroadCast

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOJ_dTh5HE5MqaPnxPxfWa6hnjSjzkIgU

MSI Press Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhnG9-mNvMM

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What Reviewers Said About the Book:

“The Marriage Whisperer is a practical, accessible book for married couples seeking to improve their relationship. The chapters, on helpful topics such as communication, trust, intimacy, roles, etc. offer relevant illustrations, practical insights and excellent discussion starters for couples. I have begun working through it with my wife and we are finding it very helpful in enhancing our intimacy and communication, in particular. I also perform wedding ceremonies and am trained to do pre-marital counseling for the couples whose ceremonies I perform, and will be enthusiastically recommending this excellent book to this whom I counsel. Highly recommended!”

“The author clearly understands the various dynamics that impact how couples navigate their life issues, and has an amazing handle on why difficulties may be occurring and what can be done to improve them. With a wise, sensible, and professional touch, she invites the reader to consider respectful options and accommodations. The inclusion of tables, lists, and short paragraphs, which offer specific ideas on what needs to be done and how one can proceed, makes this a user-friendly support to couples.”

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Published on February 15, 2014 07:24

Happy Valentine’s Gifts – eBooks with Romance

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Today the celebration is primarily for lovers. But, also for your friends. Sending her or him one of these e-books via email from Amazon, let them know how much you enjoy their companionship on Valentine’s Day. Elie Wiesel said: “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” Share a great book!

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KENTUCKY RAIN by Jan Scarbrough: Kate is a recently divorced single mom who can’t make it on

her own Amazon.com/dp/B00BXPIENG

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Spannende Kurzgeschichten “mit Herz” von Claudia Westphal: “SCHATTENFRAU”

Amazon.de/dp/B008Y15YYO (auf Deutsch)

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Romantic Suspense novel in the ski mountains of Montana “BURN ON THE WESTERN SLOPE” by

Angela Smith http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DL3ALDE

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He and Jen restart the brief, fiercely passionate affair that he abandoned, to his regret, 20 years ago in Paris … TREASURE OF SAINT-LAZARE http://amzn.to/LjHHmD

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Reviewer: “J.H.Walker has written a cracker of a debut YA novel that begs a sequel.” REWRITE REDEMPTION http://bit.ly/14XqFls

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BETTING ON LOVE: A Bluegrass Romance by Jan Scarbrough

http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/betting-on-love-a-bluegrass-romance/

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FRENCH ILLUSIONS: Memoir of an American au-pair for an aristocratic French family

Linda’s fascinating real-life story inside & outside the Loire Château http://bit.ly/18NyiJP

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FIRST KISS by Ann Marie Frohoff – YA Novel – romance of a rock musician and his “groupie”

http://amzn.to/1cEUt6w

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“This book is the definition of a page turner”: TIMELESS – a Gothic Romance by Jan Scarbrough

http://bit.ly/14vZXze

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PAINTER OF THE HEAVENS by Bart Stewart, called “A Novel of Crime and the Heart”.

Penny & Lyle aren’t Bonnie & Clyde, but they become desperadoes in a way…

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F849FMM

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e-Books are great gifts for Valentine’s Day: a fabulous reading experience, no postage or delays and are inexpensive. See more at http://www.e-book-PR.com and http://www.international-ebooks.com

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Published on February 14, 2014 06:17

Show Off Your Writing Skills: Write Guest Blogs

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Hi everyone : ) For the past 32 months I have written more than 1,010 blog posts for SavvyBookWriters.com/blog – which have been read by more than 440.000 individuals at

SavvyBookWriters. These posts are submitted several times to Google+, Twitter, Pinterest,

Facebook, Tumblr, StumpleUpon, dozens of Google+ Communities, Goodreads etc.

However, this blog would benefit from a variety of voices, additional advice and different points of view. I am now inviting guest posts on this blog.

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Guest Posting

It is a great way for your blog and your books sales page to get some fantastic exposure. You certainly can add links from your guest blog via the re-blog function to your website, your own blog or the online retailer where your book is sold. At the same time you will be helping readers of this blog by providing them with useful and relevant information. I welcome posts from writers or bloggers and others in the publishing industry, who know from their own experience what they are writing about.

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Here are Some Guidelines for You:

Topics should be related to writing, publishing and book marketing. It doesn’t have to be specific to e-books. Write about victories and … in your writing career, or great tips you can give other writers or small publishers.
Your Guest Post must be original. It should be a new, original post, written entirely by you. No articles from article directories.
Length: Your guest blog should be somewhere between 500 words to 700 words.

Longer posts if your subject requires it.
Exclusivity will be for 30 Days. By submitting a guest post to us, you agree not to post it anywhere else online for a period of 30 days after it first appears on this blog- re-blogging on your page is fine.

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Don’t Query or Inquire About Topics.

Just send your entire post to 111publishing *at* gmail . com – directly in the email-body – NO

Word or other attachments will be opened!!!

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Subject: Guest Post

Please include a short “About the Author” bio of approximately 70-80 words (not including the

link to your Web site. Include your Twitter, Google+ or FB ID with the post.

The link back to your blog or author sales page should be within the author bio, not within the

article itself. Your bio link must link to your own author site, writing- or publishing-related web

site or book sales page. No affiliate links and no links to unrelated sites.

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Please submit a polished post that you would be proud to have published. You will be contacted within three working days. Thank you for your interest and I do look forward to hearing from you!

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Published on February 12, 2014 22:57

Top 7 Regrets of Less Successful Authors

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“If I would have known then, what I know now” or “why didn’t I listen to …” and yes there might be much to regret. However, it is never too late and with your next book there is another chance to do the publishing and book marketing part much better planned and in time for the book launch. Authors are always “before the next book” so why not start today writing your prequels and use the content of your older books manuscript to create lots of short stories or blog posts, guest blogs or free chapters – in order to show off your writing and at the same time announce your next bestseller.

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These Are the Regrets I Often Hear or Read from Writers:

started too late with Social Networking
did not learn about publishing and marketing
did not evaluate the market for my book
did not study the books’ competition
did not get professionals to edit / proofread the book
did not pay enough attention to book layout
did not check the formatting before publishing

You might even add two more regrets if you sold your manuscript to a trade publisher in order to be able to brag that you are a “published” author:

not to have an attorney checked your publishing contract and explained it to you
not to have realized the implications that your book has only 3 months to fly from the shelves at bookstores and online retailers

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What Can be Improved in the Future:

How to build a solid foundation to network with lots of followers, and how to find lots of readers for your short stories, newspaper articles and guest blogs long before starting to publish your book, is explained here: http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/the-truth-about-author-platforms/

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Learn all about publishing possibilities and book marketing long before writing your book. It is so easy, either by attending a weekend seminar or one-on-one via a customized online Seminar in the comfort of your home: http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/the-latest-numbers-for-your-benefit/

http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/publishing-seminar-in-decaturatlanta-ga-march-1/

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Answer yourself these questions: How many similar books are on the market? Go into Amazon’s categories to find out. What do you think about their book covers? How are theirs, compared to your books’ price? Who will be your readers? Where on Social Media did you find readers in your Genre / book category? Who are your target readers? Are you visible to the right audience for the work you are trying to sell? http://www.rachellegardner.com/2012/02/know-your-competition/

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A few typos may look like a little matter – but they can cost you big business. The editors or the proof readers job is to partner with you on a journey to make your vision of your book working – in the way your prospective readers will see it. http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/manuscript-finished-tips-for-pre-book-production/

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Suddenly confronted with fonts, typography, page and other book layout requirements? However, not only for printed books, but also for e-books it is essential to know a bit about the possibilities and rules.

http://www.thebookdesigner.com/understanding-fonts-typography/

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Test the formatting results on multiple devices. Get your hands on as many reading devices as possible — or, failing that, get in touch with people who have a number of different reading devices and get feedback from them. The desktop Kindle application, for instance, has quirks that the actual device does not, so it helps to know when problems like this are relevant. Be prepared to repeat as necessary.

http://guidohenkel.com/2010/12/take-pride-in-your-ebook-formatting/

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Signing a “Standard” Publishing Contract can have serious consequences for authors. A publisher’s standard agreement could contain a one-sided non-competition clause that prevents the author from using material from his manuscript in day-to-day business, such as blogs posts, magazine articles, even tweets. Do use the comprehensive Book Contract Checklist by Attorney Lloyd J. Jassin!

http://www.copylaw.com/new_articles/final.three.html

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Your book has four months to fly off the shelves. If your book doesn’t sell in the first four months of its bookstore life, it will be remaindered and disappears from bookstores und could end up at “A Buck a Book”. 90 to 95% of books don’t pay back their advance. Royalty will only be paid if the advance is paid back. What you get up front as an advance is usually all you will ever get. If you screw up on your first book, you are out. If you do well with it, publishers will be eager to see your next title.

http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/what-publishers-won%E2t-tell-you/

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Hope you found these tips useful and your next books publication goes smooth and successful. Let us know what was your regret from a former publishing experience.

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Or visit http://www.e-book-pr.com/book-promo/

to advertise your new book, specials, your KDP Select Free Days or the new Kindle Countdown Deals.

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