As in most industries, knowing the right people can make a huge difference in your ability to move toward achieving…
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Skip The Bookstores and Recruit A Sales Force Of 65,000
Today, book publicist Scott Lorenz of Westwind Communications discusses a new way for indie authors to distribute their books. Photo…
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What Does A Writer Do at Book Expo America?
Most publishers are represented at BEA and are showing off the books they will release in the coming season. The…
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Are You Resistant to Building an Author Platform?
No matter where or when I speak about building an author platform, inevitably someone–or more than one person–begins to whine…
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Pitching Book Ideas at Book Expo America (Part 2)
As I mentioned in my last post, despite my earlier intentions, I did spend a fair amount of time pitching…
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Pitching Book Ideas at Book Expo America (Part 1)
I attended Book Expo America this year with little thought of doing much other than reporting on it, if possible….
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What Struggles Do Aspiring and Published Nonfiction Authors Face?
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time on planning. Like a lot of writers, I set out to simply…
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A New Publishing World Requires a New Type of Writer
Over the course of the last 29 days of Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) blog posts, one thing struck me…
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Rate of Blog-to-Book Deals Reaches Past Heights
In my last post at my other blog, How to Blog a Book, I discussed the reality that numerous blogs…
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