by Joel Friedlander | Aug 8, 2012 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
When you get ready to launch your self-published book, one of the best tools you have to help is publicity. Why? It’s one of the greatest ways to get your book in front of a lot of people and, if you’re on a budget, you can do a lot of it yourself. Joan...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 6, 2012 | Marketing, Self-Publishing
Well, the results are in. Last week I asked you to chime in with your favorite webinar topics from a list of 9 that seemed useful. And you did, in a big way. By Sunday we’d received 603 responses, and a lot of entries into the “Other” field on the...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 5, 2012 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
August may have arrived with its vacation time and tons of out-of-office replies to your emails, but that doesn’t mean the bloggers have slowed down one bit. There’s lots to read today about the future of bookselling, pricing your ebooks, social media...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 3, 2012 | Self-Publishing
Every day authors who are trying to figure out the whole book publishing maze ask questions. Through comments, email, discussions lists, forums and in person, they keep on coming. This blog, of course, is one of the ways these questions get answered, and through...
by Joel Friedlander | Jul 30, 2012 | Marketing, Self-Publishing
There are a lot of great publishing and writer’s organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, which makes it great for authors and self-publishers. I’ve written here often about the activities at the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA),...