A First Time Author's Publicity Kit Materials

Tips for first time's authors who have been requested to send a publicity kit.

Marketing Virus - Every Writer Needs to Catch It

For you writers aspiring to greatness, you might need a virus, before you can be great! You need a Marketing Virus. Every unknown writer needs a virus that will spread like the deadliest bug known to man.

Poetry Chapbooks: Ten Tips for Promotion

Poetry chapbooks are small books of poetry. They are great tools to help poets become established in the community, but promoting them can be somewhat difficult without a few leads.

FSBO Author believes in Bookswaps

As the author of FSBO, a novel bridging many subjects, I have found that it is often more cost~effective ~ and faster ~ to obtain other author's works (on subjects I want to read only) by offering to swap books with the person most interested in getting read, the author himself or herself. The following e~mail is an example of how I do it that:

Oh No! A Bad Book Review! Have No Fear...Advice For Dealing With The Blues Of A Bad Book Review

Feeling down about your bad book review? It's not the end, here's why!

Comments From A Book Reviewer

Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com, presents his thoughts pertaining to book reviewing.

Make Big Profits from Small Booklets

Want to get published fast? Write a booklet. Within days you can be a published author. Booklets can create a fast and easy income stream for writers, speakers, consultants and others.

How a Book is Born: One Author's Story

Not all books come out whole, all at once. In fact, most books ease out little by little. They have strange and wondrous beginnings. The saying goes if you write a short story or article every day, at the end of a year you'll have a book--a big book at that! But then, why think so big?

Three Powerful Tips on Selecting a Book Topic that Sells

The topic of your book or eBook counts-big time. Before you choose your topic pay attention to your audience. What do they want and need? What will they be willing to pay for your information? Try these three powerful tips.

Quiz: Will Online Book Marketing Help Sales?

Most authors sigh a sigh of relief when they finish their book. Then comes the awesome task of marketing the masterpiece. Use these 10 questions as a guide to know what book you'll want to investigate and invest in to widen your selling success.

Publishing Your Book-What Way is Best For You? - Part 1

You the author need to decide what publishing path is best for you. It may be a print book with print on demand printing, an eBook with no printing or promotion costs, or it may be a traditionally publilshed book using an agent. Make sure it's a profitable choice.

Book Promotion Myth -- The Best Place to Sell Books is a Bookstore

When authors think of their audience buying books they think of bookstores. This myth sends authors taking the long, arduous road to seeking out an agent, a publisher, hoping their book will become a best seller. It won't. Why?

Increase Book Sales: At Book Fairs, Festivals and Trade Shows

Are you an author with books to sell? From changing travel plans and schedules, to mindsets, to fairs, Marketing Master, Catherine Franz, shares with you multiple ideas on how you can get those books out of your garage or push your sales.

Good Copywriting Or No Sales - That's The Choice

You can experience the difference between good copywriting and just writing by sample reading web pages that are optimized for the search engines. When a copywriter writes the page the key phrases flow into the article. The intention is to alert the search engines to the phrases without letting the reader know that you have included your phrases over and over again...

Two Copywriting Secrets I Learned From Gary Halbert

Uncover two copywriting secrets the late Gary Halbert taught me that can completely transform your web copy from average to freakishly strong writing... almost overnight!