All Blog Posts Tagged 'publishers' (173)

Yeah! Sales are increasing! My blog is now averaging about 75-100 hits an hour. My Facebook Fan page has almost 3,500 “likes” and my Authors Den profile is averaging 100 hits a day. So, here’s the breakdown of all my promotional and marketing efforts so far. The newspaper article scheme did nothing for sales but probably exposed me to a few new people. I would recommend against it. The ads I paid good money for, like the Litopia and YA Reads.com did almost nothing for sales. Perhaps, I got a…

As some of you may have noticed the counter for my blog has exploded. For the last week, I’ve been averaging about 600 hits a day and it’s going up. Yesterday, I got 1,700. It seams the search engine optimization is kicking in after all, and it will only get better over time. It’s a bit overwhelming to think that so many people are reading my posts and checking out the kinds of books I write. Every morning I jump from bed, come down to my office, and check my stats on my various sites. It’s…

The first ads of my winter campaign are live. The combined cost for both was $100. They will run for the next two weeks right on the home pages of these sites. This should give the ads about 100,000 views at least.

http://litopia.com/

http://www.yareads.com/

Now, I’m not expecting to sell 250 books because of these ads, which is what I’d need to break even, what I’m looking for now is exposure, plain…

Querying with PixApple? Really?

 

Yes, you read correctly. I have always subscribed to the dictum that familiarity breeds contempt (more often than not). So, with that in mind, I've decided to take a novel (pun intended) approach to querying a few agents regarding my recent novel (eBook)…

kNight Romance Publishing is holding an open call for romance authors to write in two new lines of erotic romance.

SASSY! and Dark Haven: Behind The Gates Series. Please visit http://www.knightromancepublishing.com and review Dark Haven for submission guidelines. For more information please email us at knightromancepublishng@email.com.

I highly recommend the following list of books to help promote and generate social media marketing buzz and (ultimately) revenue for your written works. After procrastinating, and working an extra [part-time] gig, I committed to purchasing at least two per month. It was a gutsy call, but the investment in ones dream is always well worth it!

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Elitist attitudes toward self-publishing and POD or small press publishing is still rearing it's ugly head. Yes, there are a multitude of writers out there who should take up art or music instead, but they abound in traditional publishing, too. I'm sure many readers have opened a book published by one of the five major publishing houses and closed it after a few pages; badly written, boring, slow, poorly executed plot, editorial errors, ad infinitum, but nonetheless published. On the other…

Hey guys Im a new author and I want to make sure I am going down the right path...should I wait until my book is complete before I seek representation from a tradional publisher? Also, my audience is young women (16-26, anyone is welcome to read of course) what can I add to my manual script to grab their attention?

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A great free site for finding publishers and literary agents is http://pred-ed.com/

Once your book has been written and published, you want to find a way to promote your book that is going to reach as many people in your target audience as possible. There are some things you must know in order to get your books across to readers.…

You want to write a novel. Then, when you sit to write it, the ideas seem to have disappeared. You have writer's block before you've typed a word.



How do you generate ideas to write a book, especially when the 'ideas

well' has run dry?



First, understand this: 'I have nothing to write about' is never, ever true. There are ideas everywhere when you…