Opyrus Blog for Authors and Writers

Published On Jul 28, 2015

How to Get Book Reviews Without Annoying the Reviewers

If you want to get a spot on the big book promotion sites or to entice new readers to try out your books, you're going to need a lot of reviews. Many of the biggest book marketing newsletters won't touch your book unless you've got a couple of dozen...

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Published On Jul 23, 2015

Promoting Your Children's Book With Style

Traditional book marketing methods don't work very well for children's books. You'll reach some parents or grandparents who want to buy gifts for the little ones, but you'll never reach your fan base: the kids themselves. Kids who find something...

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Published On Jul 18, 2015

4 Facts All Writers Wish Their Loved Ones Knew About Their Work

Whether you’re writing an ebook, are a general author who is self-publishing, or you are a freelance copywriter, you likely have experienced the misunderstandings that come along with your profession. Unfortunately, often times those misconceptions...

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Published On Jul 15, 2015

5 Group Marketing Tips: Book Promotion as a Team Effort

Book marketing is a fact of every author's life, whether indie or traditionally published. Work as hard as you want, you still can't reach every single reader who might like to buy your books. If you can only reach a certain percentage of the...

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Published On Jul 10, 2015

7 Self-Publishing Tips From Authors Who Made it Big

Self-published authors are a new breed. They don't have the editorial hand-holding that authors did in the past with traditional publishing. Today's author/publishers are self-reliant entrepreneurs who wear many hats, from publicist to virtual...

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Published On Jul 8, 2015

Is Text Messaging the New Book Marketing Star?

You've got a blog, a website, and even an email newsletter, but you want to go to the next level in book marketing. Reaching fans and readers to urge them to click on that sales button is what book promotions are all about. The more times a reader...

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Published On Jul 2, 2015

5 Author Marketing Techniques - A Waste of Time if Not Done Right

Whether you're traditionally published or an indie author, book marketing is still going to be a big part of your work life once you're book's been published. The odds are, if you don't promote your book it's going to die off with little fanfare....

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Published On Jun 30, 2015

10 Steps to Effective Author Videos

One of the best ways to take your book marketing to the next level is by creating a series of author videos on YouTube. Talk about the writing process, chat about the fictional world you set your novels in, create a new craft from your non-fiction...

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Published On Jun 26, 2015

4 TED Talks Authors Need to Watch

TED Talks are amazing speeches in an almost infinite number of topics. They can inform and inspire you in your writing career, or they can suck you in and keep you fascinated for an entire afternoon. They're that good. The number of talks is...

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