Bookbub Insights: How to Get your Book Selected

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....

What a Publisher Cannot Do For You

Sarah Zama recently commented on My Two Top Tips to an Aspiring Writer, offering her point of view on what a publisher cannot realistically be expected to do. I thought her comment was so interesting, that I asked her for a guest post. Happily, she obliged. Enjoy!...

Promoting your Series: Free vs. 99c

I was reading Tara Sparling’s interesting post on free books, where she complains about authors pricing their books too low. Amazon agrees with her. I believe that’s why they only start offering 70% royalties for books priced at $2.99 and above (under that,...

Call to Arms – Book Marketing Results

Following my Call to Arms, a number of you responded by sharing with me your book marketing experience. I now have about a hundred responses by some fifty authors. Although some of the responses were expected, there were quite a few surprises in there for me....

Rate your Book Cover

I’m currently finishing my second collection of short stories. In fact, once I’m done editing the last story, the book will be ready! However, I still need to design a book cover. Lorelei Logsdon recently informed me of this great website the other day,...

An easy way to sell more books

Effrosyni Moschoudi was the very first one to suggest to me this little trick, and I have since used it with all my books. Now, Jonathan Gunson has written a great post with the same easy way to sell more books, as a comment on a presentation by Goodreads CEO Otis...