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81. Why Internet Publishing is Best (For Readers)

    by Mike Scantlebury - 2007-01-02
    It's easy to forget readers. They are the people who go out to bookshops and buy books. They are the ones who decide, by their choices, which ones become 'best sellers'; which authors prosper and whic...

82. Why Internet Publishing is Better (for authors)

    by Mike Scantlebury - 2007-01-01
    More reasons why internet publishing is better (for authors)If you ask most busy authors, they will agree on one thing. They want to get published. They want a publisher. Trouble is, in our modern wor...

83. You Can't Slap Someone Up Side The Head With An E-Book (Or, How To Publish In Today's World)

    by David McKee - 2006-12-28
    Ever had that urge to write a book? Just about everyone has at one point or another; you may even have a complete manuscript hanging around in that bottom desk drawer. Maybe you even have several! U...

84. Alternative Resources for Book Review

    by Kathryn Lively - 2006-12-27
    Often I am asked how does one go about getting reviews for a novel. Most authors I have met over the years have been under the impression that the only valid reviews are found in the newspaper or in a...

85. Using MySpace as an Author Promotional Tool

    by Rick Reed - 2006-12-27
    Authors are getting on the bandwagon musicians and filmmakers have already discovered to promote their work: the phenomenon that is MySpace. MySpace is rapidly becoming one of the most popular sites o...

86. How to Get Your Book Rejected, Part Three

    by Kathryn Lively - 2006-12-26
    In Part I of this series I touched on the importance of researching the markets where you submit your work. To send a hard science fiction novel to a house that specializes in cozy mysteries is a comp...

87. How to Get Your Book Rejected, Part One

    by Kathryn Lively - 2006-12-26
    In the course of my tenure as Publisher for the erotic romance imprint of a small press, I have received a great number of submissions, from shorts for our themed "quickie" lines to full-length novels...

88. How to Get Your Book Rejected, Part Two

    by Kathryn Lively - 2006-12-26
    In Part One of this series, I mentioned briefly the importance of knowing the markets to which you submit. If you are an aspiring romance novelist sending your work to a publisher where the bread and ...

89. How's Your Book Marketing Working?

    by Judy Cullins - 2006-12-22
    Did you get all the book sales you wanted last year? Think about the time, effort and money you invested. Which one's paid off? Which were losers?One client confessed she bought an expensive program t...

90. Top Ten Things to Think About Before You Go With Print on Demand

    by Judy Cullins - 2006-12-22
    Is Print on Demand all you think it is?You, like many other authors who don't want to go the long hard road with traditional publishing, and who like the low cost and seemingly easiest and best way to...

91. Stop Wasting Big Money on Expensive Training and Programs

    by Judy Cullins - 2006-12-22
    Without a coach to guide you, you may make expensive mistakes in buying what you don't need to get your book out to your audience.Not all books will make the Amazon top seller list. Not all of you wil...

92. Effective Book Marketing Through a Website

    by Debbi Sullivan - 2006-12-18
    Part of an effective book marketing campaign is a website - after all, what is the first thing people do when they hear of something interesting and they want information? They "Google" it. Your inter...

93. A Writer's Journey Part 2 - Putting It All Together

    by Roslyn Motter - 2006-12-13
    The art work needs to be assimilated into the text. Also the usual bits and pieces such as dedications, chapter titles and copyright and publisher details have to be added to the front of the book. I ...

94. The Most Important Word in Any Author's Vocabulary

    by Scott Ginsberg - 2006-12-13
    Nope, it isn't "marketing."Wrong, it ain't "credibility."And no, it's not "Oprah."The most important word in any author's vocabulary is: PLATFORM.Here's what that means:• A platform is what helps sell...

95. How to Market Your Self-Published eBook

    by Dorothy Thompson - 2006-12-12
    One of the questions I get from writers who have never written an eBook for the sole purpose of self-publishing is, "How would you promote a self-published eBook? Where would you even begin?"Many wri...

96. What's A Book Piece?

    by Kevin D Browne - 2006-12-11
    What's a book piece? You don't know? Wait, don't you spend every waking minute of your life thinking about book pieces?Creative do. Because their careers DEPEND on them.A book piece is simply a 'keepe...

97. Attract Publishers With Your Talent

    by David Carter - 2006-12-10
    The slushpiles in publishers' offices are higher than ever before, worse than that, they are getting taller by the day, and if you hope to avoid them, you have to grab the publisher's or agent's atten...

98. Attention Self-Published Author - Are You Ready for Some Marketing

    by Marv Lincoln - 2006-12-08
    Congratulations! You are now a published author, thanks to the modern miracle called self-publishing. You did everything right to get it done. You hold your first book in your hands with a sense of...

99. A Writer's Journey Part 1 - Getting Started

    by Roslyn Motter - 2006-12-08
    Phew! I have just finished writing my eighteenth manuscript in a series of children's adventure books. What a triumph of mind over matter!I published my first three books in October, and being self-pu...

100. Straight From the Publisher - The Odds Against

     by Colin Ingram - 2006-12-07
     As you probably already know, it has become increasingly hard-in fact, almost impossible-for new authors to have their books published by a major publisher. There are many reasons for this, but foremo...

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