After the wonderfully informative presentation at BAIPA in January by David Kudler and Bob Heyman on the topic of keywords and categories, I then attended an IBPA webinar by Joshua Tallent on the same basic topic. As an audiobook producer who also … [Read more...]
Kudos to BAIPA Fiction Award Winners Bonnie Monte and Craig Smith
BAIPA President, Becky Parker Geist announced the 2019 Winner and Runner-up of the BAIPA Book Awards for Fiction at the Feb 9 meeting. Bonnie Monte won the Fiction Award for her book “The Sleeping Lady. Craig Smith was recognized as the runner-up … [Read more...]
How I Sold 10,000 Books
Since I self-published The 5 Personality Patterns three years ago, I’ve sold over 10,000 copies. And at full price, I’m happy to say, not at give-away prices. About half of those sales were paperbacks, sold for $16 to $21, while the other half were … [Read more...]
Going Where No Audiobook Has Gone Before
We're expanding into new frontiers at Pro Audio Voices. We love doing complex, challenging projects such as the multi-voiced audiobook of The Naked Truth About Hedonism II - 3rd Edition: A totally unauthorized, naughty but nice guide to Jamaica’s … [Read more...]
Author Websites by Jeffrey Samorano
Audio recording of the February 9, 2019 presentation by Jeffrey Samorano of WPinOneClick. … [Read more...]
Book Awards for Fiction to Be Announced at February Meeting
The 2019 Winner and Runner-up of the BAIPA Book Awards for Fiction will be announced at the next BAIPA meeting on February 9. The Book Award process has been organized and managed by a small committee of BAIPA members: Bev Scott, Chair; … [Read more...]
How Improving Your Author Blog/Website Can Help You Sell More Books
(Author's Note: I talked about this at our BAIPA Writer’s World, and I published a version on Joel Friedlander’s The Book Designer website. Improving our writer/author blogs/websites is an ongoing and evolving issue.) (Editor's Note: Don't miss the … [Read more...]
Seeking Authors for Interviews on Television — with Typewriters
Here’s a note from A.T. Lynne about an opportunity for authors to be interviewed on TV: I’d like to introduce you to my friend and fellow writer, Scott Calhoun. Scott is Adjunct Instructor at Dominican University and Government and Education … [Read more...]
Woody Weingarten Splitting Time Between New Book and New Seat on County Commission
Woody Weingarten, who’s working on his third (and, hopefully, final) draft of his second independently published book, MysteryDates®, has been sworn in as the newest member of the Marin County Commission on Aging. Simultaneously, he was … [Read more...]
Copy Editing Gripes
One of the more charming interviews on KQED Forum was January 10 with Benjamin Dreyer, Random House's longtime copy chief. His forthcoming book is "Dreyer's English." (Random House Copy Chief Advises on Writing Rules in 'Dreyer's English') I … [Read more...]
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