Bookbub Insights: Get More Reviews

Sep 1, 2015 | Marketing

The penultimate post in my Bookbub Insights series deals with that age-old question: how to get more readers to review your book. Following my post, How to Score Great Amazon Reviews: Resources and More, I will now include here some of Bookbub’s ideas on the...

Bookbub Insights: Launch a New Book that’s Part of a Series

Aug 30, 2015 | Marketing

Continuing my Bookbub-inspired series of book marketing posts, I will now address the question of promoting a new book that’s part of a series. Series novels let you reach new readers who still haven’t discovered your books yet. Hook readers on one book, and...

Bookbub Insights: Increase Sales of Standalone Books

Aug 28, 2015 | Marketing

I often mention that promoting stand-alone books requires completely different strategies to promoting a series. Marketing strategies, like the highly effective tactic of making one book permafree as a gateway into a series, won’t work for stand-alones. So, how does...

Bookbub Insights: How Long Should a Promo Last?

Aug 26, 2015 | Marketing

Following my post on how to get your book listed with Bookbub, I now continue with the second question: how long should a book promo last? Turns out that the answer depends on what your goals are: are you looking to increase revenue, to market a book series, or to hit...

Bookbub Insights: How to Get your Book Selected

Aug 24, 2015 | Marketing

You’re most likely familiar with Bookbub; probably the biggest online book promoter. You may not be aware of Bookbub Partners, though; Bookbub’s tips area. Subscription is free, and the site is chock full with excellent tips and statistics on book promos....

Full Moon in Athens

Aug 13, 2015 | Other, Random Musings

It was a full moon the other day, and Electra and I ventured downtown – something we rarely do. In fact, we hadn’t been downtown in a couple of months. So, I’m not sure what I expected to see, to be honest. Judging by the media horror stories,...

3rd Place Award in the First Annual Bloggers Bash

Aug 9, 2015 | Events and Giveaways

A very special win for this blog is its recent 3rd place award in the first Annual Bloggers Bash, for most Informative Blog. A huge thank-you to everyone who voted for me. To be honest, I never expected to win – not when competing against such worthy opponents,...

Mercury is Gone

Aug 5, 2015 | Interviews Features and Reviews

You may remember my publisher friend, Dan Dombrowski. He sent me this awesome artwork the other day, and I just had to share. Drawn by Joe Stansbury, it is based on Robert Blumenstein’s story “Delivery to Venus” from the Nonlocal Science Fiction...