Articles About Book Marketing

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When It Comes To Unsolicited Book Marketing Offers: Buyer Beware! By Alina Adams

Newly published authors are bombarded with advice about how to get their book into the hands of readers: You need ...

“My book was on Amazon last week and now I can’t find it?”

Q - Angela, My book was recently published. Last week, I was able to find it by just typing the ...

TRICKY BUSINESS? Another Reason to NEVER Let Someone ELSE Register Your Website Domain!

Here is a conversation I had with an author last week. AUTHOR: A website design firm designed and managed my ...
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8 Ways Blogging Boosted My Freelance Career By Karen Lange

While writing a client’s blog post recently, it struck me how beneficial my own blog has been for my freelance ...

Yes, BookLocker authors earn royalties when a contest winner chooses their book as a prize!

Q - Angela, I noticed that I received a royalty as the result of a "contest." When you get a ...
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How to Sell Your Books at Multiple Neighborhood Yard Sales! By Jennifer Lincoln

As a self-published author, you may find yourself with some copies of your books just waiting to be sold. When ...

How can BookLocker afford to charge thousands less than other companies?

Q - Why is your process not $5,000.00 like the other companies that have offered to publish my book? Here ...

COMPLAINTS about Authors Press AND Westwood Books Publishing

DISCLAIMER: We compete directly with these companies. We reject a large number of manuscripts each year. When we do, we ...
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6 Ways to Make Your Blog Profitable By Jennifer Brown Banks

When I began my blogging journey back in 2009, I never envisioned it as an additional income stream as a ...
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How to Successfully Hand-Sell Copies of Your Book by Bonnie McCune

Before I published my first novel, no method of promoting books terrified me as much as selling at a bookstore, ...
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Book Awards: Worth the Cost?

Q - Hi Angela, I’m wondering what you might know about poetry awards and prizes, such as the Pulitzer Prize ...

How to Use Breaking News Stories to Instantly Promote Your Website, Services, or Books

I performed a social media experiment last weekend and it was a huge success! After all of the hullabaloo about ...

Can’t Easily Find Your Book on Amazon? Here’s Why!

Over the years, I have received this same basic complaint from authors about Amazon: "I can't find my book on ...
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How I Sold All 28,000 Copies of My Children’s Books by Cynthia Wylie

Even if you’re with a traditional publisher, you still have to do your own marketing. In 2018 I published a ...

SELF-PUBLISHING IN 2023? – How Many Book Sales Needed to Recoup Your Investment?

EFFECTIVE 1/3/23: THIS PAGE IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING UPDATED WITH CURRENT NUMBERS EDITOR'S NOTE: Please also see the ...

ARE YOU A BARD, TOO? 10 Bits of Writing and Publishing Advice from the Famous Bard of the South, Rickey Pittman!

“A king is a king, but a bard is the heart and soul of the people; he is their life ...

“How can I get my book up for sale under Amazon Prime?”

Q - How can I get my book, (title removed), to sell as a Prime product on Amazon? L.Z. A ...
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Can You Share Your Email List With Me?

You'd be surprised how many people ask me to share my email lists with them...for free. I won't even do ...
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Marketing to Libraries – A Waste of Time?

I’m often asked how new authors, both self- and traditionally-published, can get their book into libraries. Traditional publishers often don’t ...
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“What are the top retail links that I should put on my website for book buyers?”

Angela, My webmaster is adding information about my book to my website. I know my book is available at lots ...