by Joel Friedlander | Mar 2, 2012 | Author Brand, Marketing
By Matthew Turner (@Turndog_million) Matthew Turner is a frequent commenter here on the blog and writes very useful articles that attempt to educate authors about how to market their work. Here Matt takes on the idea of author branding, and offers his own practical...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 24, 2012 | Self-Publishing
by Marcia Degelman Marcia is one of the authors I’ve met at the monthly meetings of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Group. She impressed me with her persistence and how she kept making her book and her marketing better. I asked her to tell her story, and...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 15, 2012 | Editorial, Self-Publishing
Here’s a comment I received on the blog yesterday: … I am a self-publishing enthusiast. I encourage newbies to publish for free by doing everything themselves… I believe the majority of those “millions” of writers are amateurs who will be...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 12, 2012 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
Welcome to this edition of the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during January, 2012. Here’s what we received:82 covers in the Fiction category10 covers in the Nonfiction category Award Winners and Listing I’ve added comments...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 3, 2012 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
by Joanna Penn I’m really pleased today to bring you an article from my friend and fellow blogger Joanna Penn. Her blog, The Creative Penn is an inspiration to me and thousands of other writers, and it was recently voted, for the second year in a row, one of...