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Has anyone worked with Strategic Book Publishing or Strategic Book Marketing? I would love to hear any feedback. Thanks!

Does anyone have any positive experiences with specific book production companies, making their print books into audio books? We're looking into this as a next step for both children's and adult titles and would like some feedback from those who have done it already. Thanks!

I'd love to get any personal feedback on true-life experiences from anyone who has been through the self-publishing process. If you can email me with answers to the following, I'd appreciate it.

1. What is the name of the self-publishing house you used?

2. What quantity of books did you print?

3. What genre of book did you print? Fiction or nonfiction? What subgenre: Romance, self-help, mystery, business etc.?

4. Did you get to design the cover of your book, or have any…

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It looks like a new service offered through the public libraries, called NoveList, is becoming a great resource for readers who are starting book clubs or looking for suggestions for books to read. Anyone have any experience with getting their books in the NoveList databases? As far as I can tell, and I might be wrong, it looks like this is a resource that is used from state to state (not a national database). Any information would be appreciated.

I'm asked all the time by authors, "Fine, my ranking is good.

But how many books have I sold on Amazon?"

Unfortunately that's hard to determine. But the article below

explains it better than I can. (copy and paste this link into your browser)…

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