by Joel Friedlander | Jan 4, 2015 | E-Books & Readers, Editorial, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media
As a new year commences and the team here at The Book Designer finish our holiday break, I thought this would be a great opportunity to offer a look back on the most popular posts written by our contributing writers during the past year. Frances Caballo Facebook Ads:...
by Jason Matthews | Dec 17, 2014 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
By Jason Matthews Hard to believe it’s only been seven years since Amazon released the Kindle. It happened in November of 2007, and while ebooks existed before then, that was a pivotal event for the future of publishing. More specifically, for the future of...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 16, 2014 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Mother Nature’s been playing tricks on many of us this past week with an early return to winter across much of the country leaving quite a few of us wondering what happened! While we can’t control the weather, we can control many of the factors to do with...
by Jason Matthews | Nov 12, 2014 | Marketing, Self-Publishing
By Jason Matthews What have you done with video to assist your writing projects? I posed this question in two active Facebook author groups. Hardly anyone responded, which led me to three possibilities: People don’t like me so much. They didn’t comment because they...
by Jason Matthews | Oct 8, 2014 | Self-Publishing
By Jason Matthews At a recent writers conference I listened to a lecture from Laurie McLean of Foreword Literary, an agent I admire. She discussed the challenges of getting published and how writers can increase their chances by building a stronger author platform...