promotional pitfalls

Staging Your Zoom Background to Sell More Books! – by Ellen Scolnic and Joyce Eisenberg

Published on December 10, 2020 author, book marketing, Networking, promoting your writing, promotional pitfalls, self-publishing, writing career advice

Zoom meetings are becoming more common as a way to conduct business. Does your “background” say the wrong thing about you and your product/service?

Amazon is Screwing Over Authors and Publishers ONCE AGAIN!

Published on December 10, 2020 amazon, complaints, Complaints about specific publishers, promotional pitfalls, self-publishing

Why in the world would Amazon let people who’d completely used and benefitted from a product “return” it for a full refund? I know why!

Submittable – Good for Writers…or Not?

Published on November 19, 2020 promotional pitfalls, writing career advice

Is Submittable a good deal for writers? We don’t think so. Here why…

“A publisher wants to charge me hundreds of dollars to ‘reprint’ something that is widely available for free online…”

Published on November 19, 2020 author scams, copyrights, promotional pitfalls, self-publishing

“They’re quoting me hundreds of dollars to reproduce the text in my book. But, there are countless websites that have already quoted this exact text by that author…”

BarnesandNoble.com STILL Experiencing Problems after Massive Cyber Attack

Published on November 12, 2020 promotional pitfalls

While their main website is back up, they are still experiencing problems, including the inability to put up new ebooks…

“Do people actually buy children’s picture ebooks?”

Published on November 5, 2020 promotional pitfalls, self-publishing, writing career advice

Would YOU buy your child or grandchild an ebook for Christmas, or as a birthday gift?

ATTN: NEW AUTHORS – “Pre-sales” Only Work for iPhones and Stephen King

Published on October 15, 2020 amazon, author, Print on demand, promotional pitfalls, self-publishing, writing career advice

One author wrote to me this week saying her book was ready but that she wanted to “hold” the book until December 1st to get more people interested in it. I told her, “That type of product hype only works for iPhones and celebrity authors like Stephen King…”