Amazon: E-book Sales Soared, Print Crawled
'...In a statement accompanying its fourth quarter and full year results for 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos neatly summed up where he sees the future of book retailing heading--especially for ...
TWITTER HASH TAGS for WRITERS
If you tweet, you know that the Twitter universe is vast. How do you reach other writers? Hashtags help. What are they? Words that reflect your subject matter that are ...
Fan-Based Attacks Can Kill Books Like This One
Writes New York Times reviewer, David Streitfeld: Reviews on Amazon are becoming attack weapons, intended to sink new books as soon as they are published.
Randall Sullivan is the author of ...
Publishing World Acclimating to the Digital Revolution
Like the record industry before it, the publishing industry is changing dramatically. Of the Big Seven publishers (Random House, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group (Little, Brown ...
What ‘FREE’ Means In Web World Speak
In the last two years that I've been offering free video quick query letter critiques, writers know that I post them sans all identifying information. Why do I offer this service? I'm ...
New York Times: First Review of Self-Published Author!
The author's name is Alan Sepinwall. '..... In“The Revolution Was Televised,” Mr. Sepinwall — who writes the blog “What’s Alan Watching?,” best known for its observant episode-by-episode commentary — analyzes ...
Next Amazon Novel Winners Will be Published by Amazon…Not Penguin
COMING SOON!
If you want to submit your novel to this contest, you need to get it ready for possible publication by Amazon! The inaugurial contest, held in 2012, offered the ...
Opening 2 Pages/Memoir: MarketingtheMuse Video Workshop
In this Two Page Tell Workshop filmed by Ninety Degrees Media @ the 2012 SCWC, the author reads the first two pages of her memoir...or is it? Would you turn ...
Tim Ferriss: Writing Is The Easy Part
Take a look at a day (or week) in the life of a NYT best selling independent author, Tim Ferriss. As I tell writers all the time,writing the book is ...
Entrepreneurial Authors, Can You Do What Book Publicists Do?
Not an endorsement of her services but I did like this Huff Post blog penned by a book marketer and author, Penny C. Sanvevieri. Here's what a traditional publicist does for ...