Selling more books by giving away books for free might not sound like a smart policy, but it's the best way to start a solid career as a constantly-selling author. The key to continuous book sales is finding a group of loyal readers, and that means...
Marketing is a never-ending task for authors that can fill hours each day if you let it. Effective marketing is the key to getting more sales, but you can't afford to let it cut into your writing time. Here are a dozen marketing tasks that will...
Your author platform begins with your website. This is your home online, the space where you can let your fans gather and enjoy your work together. It begins by being a static online address, but you can make your website so much more. Here are ways...
Hugh Howey has gone from writing books in his spare time to sailing around the world in his multi-million dollar outrigger yacht, all on the success of his best-selling self publishing career. He's spent years helping out other authors, secure in...
Every best-selling book's plot can be narrowed down to one simple sentence or two. An ordinary boy finds out he's really a wizard. A family goes to be caretakers at a haunted hotel, and the father goes crazy. A woman falls through time, goes back...
Publishing a handful of non-fiction titles can be an impressive feat, but if you're writing books in hopes of supporting yourself, those thick volumes are costing you money. What if there was a way to entice readers to pay two or three times the...
One of the hottest trends in self publishing and tradtional publishing right now isn't steamy romance or smart science fiction, it's a market that most authors have never even considered -- coloring books for adults. Of the top 10 books sold in...
Any author who writes historical novels knows that it takes an unbelievable amount of research to get the details right for their era. The hard part is translating all those details you learned into a story set in a believable world that's true to...
We've all seen them: those thick books with colorful covers that everyone's reading on planes, at bus stops, and especially everywhere on vacation. Beach reads are not literary classics; they're fun and breezy stories that people love to read when...
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