It’s not enough to just write a good book. Today, authors need help promoting their work after launch. In this guest post, Sandra Beckwith (@sandrabeckwith) from Build Book Buzz shares five places you can create the all-important community necessary to help your books sell well. An author in a Facebook group I belong to recently complained that she was having…
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“Self-publishing is easy. Writing is hard.” I hear these statements all the time, but I think someone got these beliefs backward. For writers, writing is easy. Self-publishing can be hard. You see, writers write. That’s what they do—or you do. Yes, sometimes you get stuck or don’t feel inspired or good enough to write, but, in general, you can write….
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Writers often miss annual promotional opportunities. In today’s guest post, Carolyn Howard-Johnson (@FrugalBookPromo), The Frugal Book Promoter, shares her strategy for using holidays an seasonal events to sell more books and make more money as a writer. Have you heard of The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans? It was originally self-published. Evans believed in himself (and his book) when big…
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As a nonfiction writer, you are perfectly equipped to blog a book. That’s great news for a lot of reasons. The most important reason is this: You should be blogging books! I know; you don’t want another “should.” But really…blogging a book (or more than one book) help you accomplish more in less time—more of what nonfiction writers want and…
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Thinking and acting outside the box can mean the difference between success and failure in today’s competitive publishing marketplace. That’s definitely true when it comes to attracting the media, literary agents and publishers. However, one tool can help aspiring authors gain the attention of all these professionals—while doing what they do best—writing. That tool is a blog. If you are…
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I encourage aspiring authors to begin a book project by performing a competitive analysis. Writers typically make this type of evaluation as part of a book’s business plan. Doing so in the conception phase of a project, however, helps develop a unique and necessary book idea or story, one that is highly marketable. While it is true that writing with…
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Today Justine Schofield (@heyyojscho) explains why nonfiction writers should become authorpreneurs and how to achieve this goal. As a non-fiction writer, you have a unique advantage in the book market in that your book is helping to build your own personal brand. This is true for memoirists as much as business writers. Whether you’re telling your personal story, or sharing…
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