book signing advice

6 Things You Must AVOID When Marketing Your Book – by Amanda Steel

Published on March 4, 2022 author, book marketing, Book Reviews, book signing advice, promotional pitfalls, self-publishing, storytelling

Marketing mistakes are time and money wasters!

Three Homemade Productivity Tools for Authors That I’ll Give You For Free By Chris Norbury

Published on January 21, 2022 author, book signing advice, bookstores, editing, writing career advice

Here are a three free tools that help me be a better writer and marketer.

Author Events 101: How to Profit from Promotion by Sharon Woodhouse

Published on December 31, 2021 book marketing, book signing advice, bookstores, diversify your writing income, Networking, promoting your writing, promotional pitfalls, writing career advice

This article is your primer to developing an income stream from a variety of unique author events!

Writing and Selling Books Ain’t for Sloths! – by Tom Douglas

Published on November 19, 2021 author, book marketing, book signing advice, diversify your writing income, Print on demand, promoting your writing, self-publishing, traditional publishing

Visions of sugarplums dance in the heads of novice writers. Hollywood has left them with the fantasy picture of authors being sent on lavish press tours where adoring fans line up at the signing table and where the writer is hounded by eager reporters…

Diva Debbie Stops By for an Insult -or- NARCISSISTS NEED NOT APPLY!

Published on October 21, 2021 author, book marketing, book signing advice, Networking, Print on demand, promoting your writing, self-publishing, social media, traditional publishing, writing career advice

My email was (horrors!) insulting and the dastardly diva sure showed me! She wrote back, saying she was…

“Online/Virtual Book Fair?” Don’t Bother….

Published on October 1, 2021 book marketing, book signing advice, promoting your writing, promotional pitfalls, self-publishing, writing scams

I was spammed this week by an organization that hosts book fairs. Of course, it’s all online again this year. No in-person meetings. No people walking around viewing books laid out on tables. Nobody shaking hands with literary agents. You know. It’s really…nothing of value to authors AT ALL.

NEVER, EVER Buy THESE Book Promotion Products/Services. PERIOD.

Published on August 12, 2021 amazon, author scams, book marketing, Book Reviews, book signing advice, bookstores, complaints, Complaints about specific publishers, Networking, Print on demand, promoting your writing, promotional pitfalls, self-publishing, social media, traditional publishing, writing career advice, writing scams

Don’t even WORK with a publisher who upsells authors on these kinds of (bleep)…