Authors ask me a lot if there is anything they can do to help the marketing effort. What, besides smile at everyone at your book signings, speak clearly when you do presentations and always dress nicely? :) Of course!

There are a few websites now where you can enter some of the info on you and your book(s) and post it for free. Now, keep in mind that most of them want to upgrade you to a paid account of some kind. You probably don't need to do that. Here is a list of websites I have…

What is the purpose, what is the path of my life?

Trudging through pain,…

Today Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com, is once again excited to have as our guest Canadian author Cheryl Kaye Tardif.

Cheryl has made quite a name for herself in the world of literature in Canada and elsewhere. In 2004, Tardif was nominated for the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Award. In addition, Cheryl has been extensively interviewed by the media and she has been featured in The…

Pastel drawing of a muse (c) satisshroff freiburg 2007

A MOMENT OF MAGIC (Satis Shroff)

She had short, golden hair…

Catmandu, Catmandu, I'll be coming home to you (Cat Stevens).Sketch satisshroff 2007

ECSTATIC WITH ECSTASY (Satis Shroff)…

You'll find the next article of my virtual book tour here: http://writingspace.blogspot.com/. Please feel free to post a comment on that blog. I look forward to it. :)

I updated my website to include Monday night's Internet radio interview with Phil Harris.…

Today Marta Stephens talks about her journey as a published author.

check it out at :

http://www.writingspace.blogspot.com

There are plenty of new posts on my special promotional blogs. Take a look at the details of a lot of great books. There’s a wide variety of genres, topics, authors and storylines. Any author is invited to submit information about their books for these blogs. I’ve had a waiting list since the second day they were online – get your information in…

Dr Barbara…

• 325 million - number of copies the first six books in the series have sold worldwide.
  
  
  
  
• 66 - number of languages Harry Potter books have been published in.
  
  
  
  
• 6.9 million - number of Half-Blood Prince copies sold in the 24 hours after it went on sale in 2005 (more than The Da Vinci Code sold…

Himalayas: where the summits and clouds mingle

"Will the passengers please…

Eva Gerhards, Satis Shroff & Toni Hagen at a pub in Freiburg…

The Inheritance of Loss: Kiran Desai

‘My characters are purely fictional,’ says Kiran Desai. In her book (The Inheritance of Loss) she has tried to do exactly that, namely to capture her own knowledge about what it means to travel between East and West, and to examine the lives of migrants who are forced to hypocrisy, angst of being…

Yaks, Yeti and Lakhe (c) satisshroff freiburg 2007

Book-review by Satis Shroff, Freiburg: Himalaya: Menschen und Mythen…

One of the great things about online book promotion is that there are so many options. Websites, reciprocal linking, SEO, virtual book tours, blogging, podcasting, RSS, social networking, multimedia—so many different ways to market your book, each with its own spin and variations. If you’re like me, you keep a list of all the different ideas you think of to promote your books. Sometimes, it’s a very long list. So long that it can be hard to get going or know where to start. And so the list…

This morning, on Day 1 of my 'Touring the World' virtual book tour, I dropped by 3Rs Reading Den for a chat with RJ. Check it out! You never know what you might learn about me, Whale Song or my other novels. And you never know what surprises may lie in wait!

rj: Let’s start off with talking about characters - the creation of & the relationship the character has to the…