Francine Silverman. Book Marketing from A-Z (InfinityPublishing.com, 2005). Trade paperback. 400 pages. $18.95 US. For beginning authors, book promotion is the key to success. Whether an author self-publishes or is published by a major house, most often that author needs to market her book herself if she wants there to be any chance at all […]
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Book Marketing 101 for Self Published Authors
Self Publishing Book Marketing 101 No matter what any POD publisher or marketing company tells you (even the traditional publishing houses) you, the author, are almost 100% the reason your book will sell. It is your belief, excitement, enthusiasm, and energy that will get a reader excited about buying your book. Publishers are certainly a […]
Books, Trend-spotting & the Gubernatorial Race
Ok I admit it. I’m a Californian. We live in shorts, we dine at juice bars and our politics are nothing short of, well, a Hollywood movie. If you’ve been shaking your head wondering how someone with a narrow political background could be elected to a state boasting on of the 10th largest economy in […]
Cookbook Publishing – The Basic Ingredients and the Secrets
You are about to embark on the most exciting enterprise of your life — publishing a cook book! You will soon learn that writing a cook book is truly a fun, exciting and challenging project more than you can imagine. Like me, you can publish your own wildly successful cook book. And if you […]