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April 2010

Big Blog News at TheBookDesigner.com

April 30, 2010 18 comments
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I’m pretty excited. Not quite as excited as the day I went down to East West Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to see my book Body Types on a bookstore shelf for the first time. That was pretty awesome, even if Jill had to rearrange the stock a bit to show the book to [...]

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Into the Heart of Writing: Writing for Your Life by Deena Metzger

April 29, 2010 5 comments
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I want to tell you about this book, Writing for Your Life, by Deena Metzger. I want to tell you that I owned this book for several years, where it found a spot on the back of a shelf and never came out again. No, it was after I’d started taking freewriting classes with Suzanne [...]

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iPad’s ePub: The “Book” of the Future?

April 28, 2010 15 comments
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A few weeks ago Smashwords made it possible to get self-published books into Apple’s iBookstore for sale on the iPad, and from what I read there are already several thousand Smashwords titles in the iBookstore. Some of Apple’s approved content aggregators have also put out mechanisms for making contact with content creators and rights holders. [...]

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5 Things That Shouldn’t Surprise You About Self-Publishing

April 27, 2010 9 comments
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Sometimes it’s good to just kick back, push off the deadlines, turn off the ringer on the phone, and daydream a little. If you’re self-employed, doesn’t that mean you get to goof off once in a while? That you’re the boss, not that pesky little nagging voice in your head? Starting off in self-publishing can [...]

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Nonfiction Authors Are Keyword Naturals: Case Study

April 26, 2010 2 comments
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Today I’m following up on my earlier post about how authors can use keywords to help them both find readers and market their books. Instead of my hypothetical pizza book self-publisher, I’m going to use real examples from my blog to illustrate how you can get started using these long-tail, search-oriented marketing techniques. I know [...]

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