By Lee Foster All of us following Joel’s The Book Designer website have at least one common goal: We want to sell more books, either existing books or books we are now developing. How will we sell those books? It’s apparent that one important element in the selling...
[First of 2 parts] When you start a new author blog, you’re hopeful and expectant. Who knows how many people you’ll reach, how much fun it will be, whether you’ll start a trend or a revolution, become rich and famous, or be offered a 6-figure book...
Stella, an old friend, told me this true story: One day Stella decided to go to her favorite piano bar. She was one of the regulars there and enjoyed the camaraderie and loved to sing along with her favorites. She got dressed and headed to the piano bar for the...
The idea of an author blog is pretty simple, really. As most authors understand it, they write articles around the same topics that are central to their books, market their blogs to people who are interested in those topics, and slowly build an audience, a readership...
by Tracy R. Atkins (@TracyRAtkins) I met Tracy in the comments on the blog, where he is a frequent contributor. Tracy has an extensive background in technology and is now on his way to becoming a self-published author. I asked him to lend his expertise to help authors...