Why in the world would an author PAY people to read his or her book rather than the other way around?!?! I’m having a hard time trying to think of a worse book review deal for authors!
Sometimes competitors and others test BookLocker.com to see if we really do screen manuscripts that we’re considering for publication. Yes, we absolutely do! We rejected the poetry book written by the dog of an author. That was memorable. There was the…
Is this publisher committing extortion???
You might be surprised to learn that my #1 recommend method of book promotion is Facebook advertising. But, not the way you think…
You can’t use any photo you want, for any reason, just because you paid for it.
A ding dong at Amazon told an author publishers can remove reviews.
I was contacted recently by an author who did attend one of these. He was initially impressed and excited because “so many” publishers had authors in attendance. But what he didn’t know was…
I don’t know how any writer can claim to be a serious writer when presenting their “work” in this way…
I was spammed by a well-known book publicity firm last week so I took that opportunity to ask them a very simple question. All authors who are considering paying a marketing firm upwards of $1,000 or more should ask the same question…
I vehemently disagree with the agent that a book won’t sell simply because it’s a memoir.
