How to Get Your Book Reviewed in Magazines

How do you get your book noticed, let alone reviewed, when it is just one among stacks of books in an editor's office? Here are a few tips to help you map out a winning strategy...

Promote Your Book: 5 Free and Low-cost Ways to Boost Book Sales

Have you self-published a book and are wondering how to get the word out? Have you been accepted by a traditional publisher and want to help increase sales? Here are some simple, inexpensive things you can do to help promote interest in your book.

Book Signing Nightmares

Are book signings worth all the hard work and heartache? Isn’t there an easier way that’s not as taxing on the ego to let the world know you wrote a book?

How Authors Can Endure The Promotional Process!

Authors severely underestimate the challenge of promoting their books. The truth is - being an author is a lot easier than getting people to buy your paperback!

The Business of Publishing

The truth about publishing is really stranger than fiction and the truth is: getting published is only half the battle. The other half is to keep your reality check in balance so it doesn't bounce.

Promote That Book

Writing, whether full-time or part-time, is a business. One part of the business of writing is promotion of novels and non-fiction books, because without sales, there are no sales, no income. Marketing one's book is as important as writing it.

Everything You Should Know About Pay to Review Services

Should you pay to have someone review your book? This is a question many small press, self published, or POD published authors are going to have to ask. With the entrance of the pay to review model many authors who could never get their books reviewed by the “mainstream” review outlets now have the opportunity to get that necessary and all important book review.

Publishing Child Book? Top Ten Tips for Writing Book Pitches That Get Your Manuscript Read

Publishing child book? No matter how well-written your child story is, if you want to get published, you need to grab and hold the attention of publishers. This article tells you how to write a book pitch that gets results.

5 Problems With Conventional Book Publishing

Dr. Gary S. Goodman, best-selling author, success coach says conventional book publishing is suffering from acute problems that every aspiring author should consider. This expert in customer service and sales training, popular speaker, and radio and TV commentator, suggests there may be better ways to get your ideas into other people's hands.

Your First 100 Rejections

New writers often fear rejection and as a result, don't send their writing out very much. I encourage you to work on acquiring at least 100 rejection letters, because the more you circulate your work, the better your chances of being published.

Award-winning Designer Reveals Secrets to Attractive Page Layouts

A customer will not read--or buy--a book that is designed in a way that is difficult to read. Your goal with book design is to create an interior that is inviting, pleasing, and easy to read. Here are some techniques that professional typesetters use.

Query and Cover Letters: A Quick How To

A basic outline for query and cover letters.

Every Author Needs A Power Team

Research has shown that the vast majority of aspiring authors fail because the don’t have a POWER TEAM – a group of experienced publishing professionals, ready and able to help YOU write your book and WRITE IT NOW! To become a successful, published author here's who you'll need:

10 Ways to Synch Your Book and Website, p1

In the new millennium the web must play an important role in your book’s marketing plan. Your website address should be included in as many places online and offline in your marketing materials as possible...