Maria Peagler's Page

Hi Guys -



Wanted to share a great new resource for marketing your books for free: your email signature. I offer 19 different ways

I've used my own email signature to sell more books, and I've kept my

latest title in the top of its category of Amazon for the past two

years.



Best part? The ebook is only 99 cents, and it's the first in my ongoing series, Social Media Strategies for Authors. You can't even get a cup of… Continue

My eighth title is coming out next month: Color Mastery: 10 Principles for Creating Stunning Quilts. I had so much fun writing this book. Writing a quilting book is far more than a writing: I designed and made the quilts, developed the instructions, hired the photographer, book designer, two editors, illustrator, and pattern testers. It was a labor of love and I consider it my third child!



Here's the cover:

and the… Continue

Beneath the Cover has a great blog posting on publishers raising the bar for almost impossibly high author platforms , so books sell on their own with almost no marketing effort from the publisher. Patrice's book, The Web-Savvy Writer, really outlines great strategies for author platforms, marketing, and… Continue

Has anyone self-published a book with lots of graphics and photos? I self-published one of my books, but it had only a few graphics, and it was years ago before POD. The challenge I'm wondering about is the size of the files and getting them to the printer. My book would be about 100 pages, and it would have at least one or two graphics or photos on each page, and it would be in color. It seems extremely expensive. Any experience with this?

The publishing industry amazes me that they're able to turn a profit, even as long as I've been involved with it. I called a publisher today to find out the status of a proposal that they had requested. The Executive Editor didn't know who I was, didn't recognize my book proposal, and didn't know where it was. She then asked me, "Are you in a hurry to get it back?" Well, yes, another publisher is interested and I need it.



And this is a recognized industry leader in the quilt book… Continue