If you’re gearing up to promote your new book or to revive an already published title, you might think you should do a book tour. Contact bookstores and cafes. Make posters. Sell books out of the trunk of your car. But in our wild and futuristic … [Read more...]
Book Launch: The Realm of the Wise: Finding Your Wise Guide by Marc Deprey
Marc Deprey Book Launch Event! Marc Deprey will be launching his new book, The Realm of the Wise: Finding Your Wise Guide June 8, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea, 130 S. Main Street, Suite 101, Sebastopol. His presentation is … [Read more...]
Lee Foster’s Article about Author Monetization Published on “The Book Designer”
I have published a detailed article about writer/author monetization in the new self-publishing era. The article, “11 Top Tips for Making Money from Your Writing and Photography in 2017," is on Joel Friedlander's "The Book Designer" website blog. … [Read more...]
A Few Interesting Articles from Joel Friedlander’s Newsletter
Here are some interesting articles, noted in Joel Friedlander's newsletter: David Vandagriff (Passive Guy) on The Passive Voice A Leader in Canadian Writing Takes Stock of Self-Publishing “PG poses a respectful questions to authors using … [Read more...]
Book-Browsing Adventures
BOOK-BROWSING ADVENTURES by Dawn Marie Carlson While on a recent bookstore expedition at Copperfield’s in Novato, I uncovered this gem, Good Prose – The Art of Nonfiction – Stories and advice from a lifetime of writing and editing. The authors … [Read more...]
The Failure of Free — How and Why I Gave Away My First Book to Attract New Readers to My Second
Despite the headline, I’d prefer to frame my book giveaway as an experiment, not a failure. I tested the strategy of making my book free and got definitive results — fewer sales or reviews than my modest projections. A successful experiment, but a … [Read more...]
More Social Media Tips from Shari Weiss
Top Ten challenges for newcomers to social media: 1. Trying to do too much too soon: My suggestion to “students” — no matter what their age or discipline — is to understand that the learning process follows these four-steps: CONFUSION → SILENCE → … [Read more...]
Takeaways from BAIPA Meeting on May 7 (Last Saturday—One Week Earlier Than Usual)
BAIPA Meeting Held on May 7 Frances Caballo on Social Media and Joel Friedlander on Blogging for Authors We had a great meeting last Saturday, with Frances Caballo speaking about the ins and outs of social media, and Joel Friedlander sharing his … [Read more...]
Blog Post from Upcoming Speaker Steven Spatz
Join BAIPA this Saturday, March 12 and learn the behind the scene stories, strategies and shortcuts used by successful BookBaby authors. BookBaby President Steve Spatz will talk about: People Powered Publishing – How Self-published Authors Around the … [Read more...]
The Latest on the Current State of Publishing
Thanks to Stephen Kessler, who posted this on the BAIPA Answers Forum in Facebook: "I want to recommend you read www.hughhowey.com/the-state-of-the-industry/. Joel Friedlander included this in his latest "this week in the blogs" and I thank him … [Read more...]