By Florence Osmund You can write and publish the best book ever written, but if you don’t skillfully promote it, it won’t likely get noticed, or worse yet, it will draw negative attention. But how do you take a full-length novel with all of its characters, plot...
By Sandra Beckwith If you’re like many authors, you’ve seen a “roundup” article that made you think, “My book should have been included in that.” A roundup article shares the best, worst, most, least, newest, top, funniest, etc. products related to a specific category...
By Beth Barany Elevator pitches–not just for marketing… Today, Beth Barany provides us with a different perspective on elevator pitches, those one paragraph synopses we should all be writing for our books, how to write them and how to use them. Lots of...
By Judith Briles Authors for decades have asked me, “How did you get on TV so many times? How did you get major coverage in the print for your books? How did you get on radio? Who was your publicist? The answer is: I worked at it. It became part of my job as an...
Authors have responded with enthusiasm to the availability of great new tools for publishing their own work, and that makes a lot of sense. Now the indie author community is made up of writers who had never published before, writers who had previously published with...