The praise is rolling in for Butchertown, Thomas Burchfield's hair-raising thriller. Don Herron, author of the Dashiell Hammett Tour, praises Butchertown for its “great cast of gangsters and gunsels,” while John-Ivan Palmer, author of Motels of … [Read more...]
Arlene Miller, the Grammar Diva, Has a New Book!
Arlene Miller, the Grammar Diva, has written a new book. Can Your Flamingo Flamenco? The Best Little Dictionary of Confused Words and Malapropisms, is now available on Amazon and will be available on Kindle on August 7. Other online sites will carry … [Read more...]
Der Stolperstein — Freestone and Raab Self-Publish in German
BAIPA member Julie Freestone and her co-author Rudi Raab have finished the very much-more complicated process of self-publishing in Germany. Their novel Der Stolperstein is now available on Amazon.de and through Tredition, the print-on-demand … [Read more...]
This Week's Blooper — A Fate Worse Than Death
Community Media Center of Marin August Mixer Features Barbara McVeigh Reading from Memoir
At the August 2 Media Mixer in San Rafael filmmaker and author Barbara McVeigh, member of BAIPA as well as Community Media Center of Marin (CMCM), will read from her memoir, Redemption, How Ronald Reagan Nearly Ruined My Life. Her book recounts the … [Read more...]
Peter Beren Lands New Book Deal for Photographer Art Wolfe
BAIPA member Peter Beren of the Peter Beren Agency, announced a new book deal for master photographer, Art Wolfe. It's the 69th book for the prolific lensman and in it, he teams up with popular nature writer, Gregory McNamee, for a tour through the … [Read more...]
One Surprising Thing I’ve Learned about Amazon Best Seller Rankings
I just launched my new collection of travel stories, Your Crocodile has Arrived: More True Stories from a Curious Traveler, and discovered that Amazon’s algorithm for determining “Best Seller” status is much more complicated than I had realized. In … [Read more...]
An Online Option for Attractive, Affordable Covers (Part 1)
Recently I discovered SelfPubBookCovers.com, a web-based business that provides a good, useful service for indie authors. The synchronicity was stunning — at that moment I needed three new book covers: a digital front cover for my Steampunk novel, … [Read more...]
Joel Friedlander’s Journey to Becoming Go-To Expert on Book Publishing, Cover Design, and More
On July 8, in the morning session, Joel Friedlander will present We All Judge Books By Their Covers — How to Create Book Covers That Work; for the afternoon session, he'll be part of a panel doing live critiques of BAIPA authors’ book … [Read more...]
Last Call for Book Covers for Critique at July 8 Cover Design Workshop
As some of you know, on July 8, book design guru (and former BAIPA president) Joel Friedlander is presenting We All Judge Books By Their Covers — How to Create Book Covers That Work. In the afternoon, he'll be part of a panel doing live critiques … [Read more...]
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