INDEX OF ALL BOOK MARKETING FLOOZY ARTICLES
on Aug 24, 2009 in How to blogging book marketing book promotion books business internet marketing writing best ways to promote book marketing tips book publicity online persona promote your book for free I began researching book marketing almost from the time I wrote the first word of my first novel. I read about using bookmarks as business cards and giveaways, sending out press releases, setting up booksignings, but I learned very little about mark...

How to Set Up a Blog Book Tour and Why You Should
on Aug 24, 2009 in How to blogging blogs book marketing book promotion books internet marketing random writing Alan Baxter Blade Red Press Blog tour MageSign Publetariat RealmShift Smashwords Alan Baxter is an optimistic cynic and dark speculative fiction author, based on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. His writing is primarily based in the magical, the spiritual, the religious and the arcane with tendencies towards horror...

The Book Promotion Puzzle
on May 10, 2009 in blogging book marketing book promotion internet marketing random writing online persona promotion self-promotion writing is like Writing means many things to many people. It is like a mythic journey into self, other lands, other minds. It is like archeology, like exorcising demons, like channeling, like performance, like a faucet. It is like having an adventure. It is uniquely...

The Magic of Social Networking
on May 10, 2009 in How to blogging book marketing book promotion internet marketing random writing facebook social networking Marshall Karp Rita Schiano Michael Palmer Goethe boldness has magic in it Bruce DeSilve Patricia Smith Writing a book was hard. Editing it was harder, and finding a publisher even harder. Waiting for it to be released after acceptance was murderous, and now promoting the book is . . . Ha! Bet you thought I was going to say it was hardest of all —...

INDEX OF ALL BOOK MARKETING FLOOZY ARTICLES
on May 10, 2009 in How to blogging book marketing book promotion books business internet marketing writing best ways to promote book marketing tips book publicity online persona promote your book for free I began researching book marketing almost from the time I wrote the first word of my first novel. I read about using bookmarks as business cards and giveaways, sending out press releases, setting up booksignings, but I learned very little about mark...

How much time should an author spend tweeting, Facebook-ing and MySpace-ing?
on May 10, 2009 in How to blogging book marketing book promotion books business internet writing myspace facebook Twitter Cheryl Kaye Tardif Whale Song book marketing coach tweeting Cheryl Kaye Tardif, author of Whale Song, The River and Divine Intervention and book marketing coach is my guest blogger today. Tardif responds: The quick answer: Not so much time that your manuscript is piling up around you–unedited or unfin...

Negative Reviews: Are They Really Negative?
on May 7, 2009 in blogs book promotion books people random writing Amazon facebook Flipping Out Marshall Karp negative reviews The Rabbit Factory I am the administrator of the Suspense/Thriller Writers group on Facebook. Our discussion this week was about negative reviews, and Marshall Karp left a comment that I wanted to pass along because I thought you’d find it as helpful as I did. Marsha...

Never Be Afraid to Ask
on May 6, 2009 in How to blogging book marketing book promotion business random writing book launch book reviews book sales book signing Endo Ian O'Neill Ian O’Neill, the one-time advertising copywriter turned award winning freelance journalist, is the author of Endo, a mystery/suspense novel set in Ontario, Canada. Ian has written for newspaper, magazine, radio, television and once wrote a dirt...

Starting an E-Publishing Company
on May 4, 2009 in How to books business internet marketing random writing Joan De La Haye Rebel E Publishers Shadows starting an e-publishing company My guest today is Joan De La Haye, author of Shadows and co-founder of Rebel E Publishers. Joan writes: When I finished writing Shadows, I hit a few brick walls. Which left me feeling less than positive about my writing career. It also left me thinki...

Submitting to Literary Magazines 101: Professionalism
on Apr 29, 2009 in How to business life random writing I am truly honored to have Vince Gotera as my guest today. Vince writes poems and stories, as well as the occasional creative nonfiction. His books include the three poetry collections Fighting Kite, Ghost Wars, and Dragonfly, as well as the critica...