Sue Collier | July 31, 2011
Here’s some of what’s happening in publishing right now: From A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: Thinking Global I’ve touched on this before, but due to recent news I feel it needs to be addressed as its own blog post. The recent news is that Amazon is launching Kindle in India early next year. This comes [...]
Sue Collier | July 27, 2011
I speak with many authors who are writing children’s books, and questions around the illustrations—who? what? and how?—are usually the most common. This is part two of a series of articles professional illustrator and designer Lisa M. Griffin will be writing for us to try to help clear up some of the confusion. (Read part one here.) [...]
Sue Collier | July 25, 2011
I’m very pleased to welcome today’s guest blogger, D’vorah Lansky. D’vorah is the bestselling author of Book Marketing Made Easy: Simple Strategies for Selling Your Nonfiction Book Online. Thanks, D’vorah! How Authors Can Benefit From Article Marketing by D’vorah Lansky If you are an author wishing to increase your readership, article marketing can send highly [...]
Sue Collier | July 25, 2011
Your name: Kevin Cullis Your website/blog: http://www.MacStartup.com Your bibliography: How to Start a Business: Mac Version; i.Business Issue #3, #4 magazine articles: 1. What is your background? Writing a Masters thesis for my Masters degree in Administration was the largest document I have ever written up until that time, and if you had told me [...]
Sue Collier | July 25, 2011
Here’s some of what’s happening in publishing right now: The New York Times: The Price of Typos Some readers like to see portraits of authors they admire, study their personal histories or hear them read aloud. I like to know whether an author can spell. Nabokov spelled beautifully. Fitzgerald was crummy at spelling, bedeviled by [...]
Sue Collier | July 22, 2011
Book Review Title: Online Book Marketing: The Least Expensive, Most Effective Ways to Create Book Buzz Author: Lorraine Phillips If you’re looking for some ideas on how to create online “buzz” for your book, I recommend you check out Lorraine Phillips’s book Online Book Marketing: The Least Expensive, Most Effective Ways to Create Book Buzz [...]
Sue Collier | July 11, 2011
Here’s some of what’s happening in publishing right now: From the Wall Street Journal: Cherish the Book Publishers—You’ll Miss Them When They’re Gone The Klondikers of digital publishing are rushing to stake their claims, inspired by tales of the gold to be found in the Kindle hills.…It’s only natural for those locked out to despise [...]
Sue Collier | July 11, 2011
You’ve finally made the decision: You are going to self-publish your book. And by “self-publish,” I am talking about true self-publishing in which you obtain your own ISBNs and start your own publishing company—not vanity or subsidy publishing wherein you sign on with a so-called “self-publishing” company that assigns your book one of its ISBNs. [...]
Sue Collier | July 4, 2011
Here’s some of what’s happening in publishing right now: From The Savvy Book Marketer: The Future of Book Publishing Last week I was invited to attend a fascinating presentation about technology trends, delivered to a group of hospitality industry technology professionals by Peter Leyden, who is the former managing editor of Wired magazine and author [...]
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