Published on September 17, 2021
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MORE: Canada burned books in schools; Big profit in 2021 book sales; Handbook tells parents that being an adult oppresses children; Taliban torturing journalists; Google and Apple accused of colluding with Putin; Press freedoms disintegrating worldwide; Facebook gives celebrities and elites special treatment when it comes to censorship; DC broadens antitrust lawsuit against Amazon; and New biography about Paypal’s founder.
Published on August 12, 2021
amazon, author scams, book marketing, Book Reviews, book signing advice, bookstores, 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)…
Published on July 29, 2021
book signing advice, Networking, promoting your writing, social media, writing career advice

People are waiting to discover your book. You just have to reach out…and reply.
Published on July 8, 2021
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What exactly could you do with your writing with an extra 365 hours over the course of a year?
Published on June 24, 2021
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If an author has any enemies (or suspected enemies), I recommend he or she remove those people from their social media friends’ lists, as well as their email lists long before marketing of a new book begins…
Published on June 18, 2021
Censorship, legal, social media

Rock Star Refuses to Let Facebook Use His Song; Free Speech Under Attack in Hong Kong; Pulitzer Prize “Lost its Meaning??;” and MORE.
Published on May 13, 2021
author, book marketing, diversify your writing income, Networking, self-publishing, social media, storytelling, traditional publishing, writing career advice

Whether you like social media influencers or not (I do not), the allure of their numbers of followers has not been ignored by marketing firms…
Published on March 18, 2021
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You can bet that the minute you post something that Facebook (or any of your readers for that matter) doesn’t like, you’re going to…
Published on January 14, 2021
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While I won’t get into the politics of it all (Heaven knows we’re all drowning in that stuff right now), this all serves as an important reminder that what we buy electronically may not always belong to us…
Published on November 25, 2020
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In this article, I’ve listed both tried-and-true methods for book promotion, as well as ones of my own invention…