How to Market Your Unsold Books on the Internet: It's Easy

Your book expresses your wondrous information, your creativity, and your genius. It's your dream come true. Or is it? Now, there is a new way to market those unsold books. Divide and conquer. Use your one book as a springboard for many others and catapult your sales.

How to Get Your Book Reviewed

Learn how to capture a publishers attention, and have a better chance of getting published.

Book Talks: What to Say and How to Say It

Organizations, service clubs, and community groups are always looking for speakers. Better yet, an author who is willing to speak about his or her latest book. But talented authors aren't necessarily talented speakers. What can you say about your book? How can you say it? These tips will help you to give a successful book talk.

Looking to Sell Your Book for a Good Price?

Are you interested in eventually selling your book to a large publisher at a good price? A DOI strategy is an inexpensive way to boost the market value of your book, because the big guys talk DOI.

Successful Book Marketing The Natural Way - Part 1

Success is natural, and if you use your natural resources, you too can create enough book sales to take that long, lost trip to the Caribbean, or buy a new car. Learn from these examples of natural book marketing and how to expand them.

The Bible Of Self Publishing

Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com reviews Dan Poynter`s, The Self-Publishing Manual: How To Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book.

The Lecture Experience: Part I

During the past year or so, I have done nearly a hundred talks about my book, “LADIES: A Conjecture of Personalities.” It’s about the First Ladies – the OLD First Ladies, Martha through Mamie. Since ...

Ready, Set, Go Sell Your Book In The Real World!

We hear a lot these days about more books actually being sold 'outside' the traditional bookstore. Think about it. When was the last time you actually took time to linger and explore the bookshelves...

How To Promote A Book

Nowadays it’s no longer a matter of whether or not an author should promote his or her book, but how aggressively one should go about it. The sad truth is that publishers often fail to promote ...

Self Publishing Success Starts With Marketing

Self-publishing is not for the faint of heart. The publication process is lengthy, involves a considerable number of detailed, administrative tasks and can be expensive. This is the easy part; the ...

Plain Speaking - 4 Secrets For Getting Your Book Purchased

What's the point of writing a brilliant book if you don't entice people to even open it? Make sre your cover copy is compelling!

Colour and Book Covers - What You Should Know if You're Self-Publishing

A basic understanding of colour and the differences between the colours you see on your screen and those employed to print a book, could save you money and prevent disappointment.

Authors Should Be Optimistic

The fact is that if you have a good book and there's a market for it, there's no need to let others dissuade you from trying to find an agent or traditional publisher, if that's the way you want to go. There are also many reasons to self-publish (particularly if you have a niche market). Just make sure the advice you're receiving is unbiased.

4 Questions to Answer Before Contacting a Book Agent

Obtaining agency representation is your first step toward getting profitably published. Most publishers won’t even look at unsolicited manuscripts. But, before approaching an agent to represent you, ...

How Many Ways Can You License Your Tips Booklet?

You've been thinking about writing a tips booklet. After all, it's shorter, faster, and easier than writing an entire book. A single tips booklet manuscript can be recycled over and over again, developing a new income stream with each deal you make. The booklet can be distilled from a book you've already written, a newsletter you distribute, or from sound bites you continually share with clients, audiences and anyone who will listen.