What We Call “Traditional Publishing” Is Actually a Brief, 80-Year Detour from 400+ Years of Self-Publishing Michael Castleman, San Francisco journalist and author My latest release, The Untold Story of Books, recounts the bittersweet … [Read more...]
5/4/24 RECORDING: Success Tips & Best Practices for Your Audiobook with Becky Parker Geist
Success Tips & Best Practices for Your Audiobook Set your audiobook up for success from start to finish, including a wide range of production & distribution options BAIPA President and CEO and founder of Pro Audio Voices, Becky Parker … [Read more...]
4/6/24 RECORDING: Making Your Book Marketing Plan with Alexa Bigwarfe
Making Your Book Marketing Plan Alexa Bigwarfe, CEO & Founder, Write|Publish|Sell & Women in Publishing Summit BAIPA April 2024 chat Learn the key elements of your book marketing plan—for short and long-term goals. We’ll also cover … [Read more...]
How to build your author website in the next month
Here's a common dilemma: you know you need to improve, or create, your author website, but you don't have a lot of time, tech confidence, or a big budget. Later this month I'm starting a new group program where I'll show you how to build an author … [Read more...]
Pauline Wiles’s Top Website Resources of 2022
Like many of us, I've looked back at the resources I've offered during 2022 to see what has attracted most attention from my audience. I produce a range of content about author websites, including articles, downloads, free training, and social … [Read more...]
Seeking Volunteers to Help with ‘Books Published by BAIPA Members’ Page on Website
Last fall, we started compiling a list of books published by BAIPA members in 2019 and 2020 — Books Published by BAIPA Members 2019 + 2020. More than 20 authors submitted their books, but they aren’t all posted yet, and we could use some help. … [Read more...]
12 SEO Tips to Drive Traffic and Sell Books
(Note: I ran a version of this article on Joel Friedlander’s The Book Designer website. I offer it now on the BAIPA Blog as BAIPA seeks to increase the number of professional development posts available to its members.) Sometimes truly happy events … [Read more...]
Secrets of BAIPA Website, Part 1
We’re not intentionally keeping the BAIPA website secret. It only seems that way. Most visitors don’t explore beyond the next month’s presentation or a few blog posts, but there's a lot more on our site that might interest or inspire … [Read more...]
Does Your Author Website Need a Renewal in 2018?
2018 is a good time to think about renewing and upgrading your WordPress author website. I am putting a lot of energy this year into the transformation of my fostertravel.com. I recently gave a talk and organized a panel on this subject at a … [Read more...]
How to SEO Your Book Excerpt into a Blog Post
Serializing content isn’t something new to the Internet. Just about 150 years ago, for example, Dostoyevsky serialized his novel, Crime and Punishment, into the Moscow Journal, The Russian Herald. By putting excerpts of his novel into a newspaper … [Read more...]