By David Kudler One of the most powerful tools for marketing your book is always going to be reader reviews. We all dream of a featured review in The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, or Library Journal. But other reviews — whether from influential...
By Amy Colllins I recently saw a tweet that made me stop in my tracks. It was from a very popular blogger with a huge following. She said that her main wish was that “authors would stop acting like they ‘deserve’ a review from a blogger.” A...
By Judith Briles Amazon: Love it … or hate it … but, you gotta deal with it. “Why are my reviews being removed?” is an ongoing question that authors ask. There isn’t a live program that I do that it doesn’t surface. Scratching our heads, few of us can...
By Amy Collins Dear Readers of The Book Designer, I have seen some great comments below which I have responded to, but I wanted to add a few new lines to my suggestions as I have written them below. In the spirit of DO THIS NOT THAT, I was trying to say that I USED to...
A few weeks ago I published The Book Blueprint: Expert Advice for Creating Industry-Standard Print Books. This is the second edition of a book originally published as The Book Construction Blueprint. This presented the challenge of not only creating the listings for...
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