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You Just Submitted Your Manuscript – Enjoy the Excitement, Prepare For Rejection


You Just Submitted Your Manuscript – Enjoy the Excitement, Prepare For Rejection

Maybe you have just submitted a manuscript to a publisher. How can you prepare for rejection?

Published July 23rd, 2010 · Business Tips, Publishing, Writer's Tips · No comments · Read More »

When Should an Author Start Thinking About Book Promotion?


When Should an Author Start Thinking About Book Promotion?

Be­fore you type the first word, it is crit­i­cal that you think about the pro­ject in its en­tire­ty – in­clud­ing a plan for mar­ket­ing and pro­mo­tion and a bud­get as well. Here are a few ques­tions you want to ask your­self in this pro­cess:

Published July 23rd, 2010 · Business Tips, Marketing & Promotion · No comments · Read More »

Being Professional – Your Author-Publisher Relationship


Being Professional – Your Author-Publisher Relationship

How would you de­scribe your au­thor-​pub­lish­er re­la­tion­ship? You may pick up on con­ver­sa­tion­al nu­ances, for ex­am­ple, or miss them. Even bet­ter, you may be an au­thor who re­al­ly lis­tens. Like me, you may try to help your pub­lish­er as much as pos­si­ble. Pro­fes­sion­al­ism usu­al­ly gets good re­sults, but not al­ways.

Published July 23rd, 2010 · Business Tips, Writer's Tips · No comments · Read More »

12 Ways to Break Into the Book Business


12 Ways to Break Into the Book Business

Breaking into the publishing business is not easy, especially in this economy. A logical, organized approach may tilt the publishing odds in your favor.

Published January 23rd, 2010 · Business Tips, Writer's Tips · No comments · Read More »

Strategies For Marketing a Book in the Year 2010


Strategies For Marketing a Book in the Year 2010

Putting up a nice website, writing a blog, twittering and facebooking, doing a book trailer or a press release and the like, while commendable, are not really going to set you apart, as nearly every single one of those 500,000 authors and companies and 400 million owners of those sites are doing this also. Everybody is doing this. So, what will work?

Published January 9th, 2010 · Business Tips, Marketing & Promotion · No comments · Read More »

Book Distributors & What They Can Do For Your Book


Book Distributors & What They Can Do For Your Book

While is it fairly easy to list your book on Amazon and Barnes and Noble online, getting your book into a physical bookstore is very difficult for a new, self-published author.

Published November 22nd, 2009 · Business Tips, Marketing & Promotion · No comments · Read More »