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Marketing "Gretel's Story"

The initial inspiration for my book Gretel's Story: Finding the Way Home (CreateSpace, 2011) came from my own life experience. Like Hansel and Gretel in

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Contests and word of mouth

I would say my number one marketing tip goes hand in hand with social media. Use Facebook and Twitter to get the contests out there (as well as making

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FRACTURE The Secret Enemy Saga by Virginia McKevitt

Hi Shelley, Thank you for the opportunity to talk about my book marketing strategies. First of all, I am new at this game, so reading what other authors

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YOU Are Your Best Book Marketing Tool

My first book was picked up by a large publishing house and I naively thought my book would be marketed and promoted widely. Instead, I was the one contacting

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Give Yourself a Deadline

I had wanted to write a full-length nonfiction book for years, but never did it. Why? Because I was too busy writing for deadlines that other people had

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Marketing Strategy #1 - Write & Publish More

I'm borrowing this strategy from Dean Wesley Smith. It's simple and works well for most writers. Write and publish more. In the new world of electronic

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Self-Editing Pointers

One of the most important parts of submitting writing, any writing, for publication is the editing. Yes the content is important, however if you have amazing

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Tips from the Trail

From my experience, I recommend finding a POD, Independent, Alternative Publisher, or whatever that publisher’s name is that will be printed on the spine

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THANK YOU! - THANK YOU! - THANK YOU!

Thanks to you, I published today my first Kindle book. I used your template and found a low cost professional picture from your recommended list to use

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Best Graphic Design for Book Covers

I am putting the finsishing touches on my book and need to create a front and back cover. I saw new books in the store with what looked like computer generated

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My Most Successful Book Marketing Strategy

I have tried several different things for marketing my eBook online. My most successful strategy thus far is my book launch. I think one of the reasons

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Publishing non-fiction

Great site! Still need to explore it all and sign up for your newsletter, which I will do. Here is my question as I get ready to work on my first book.

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Strategize to sell yourself

Strategy involves a number of aspects, but the first one is to have a clear goal. At first sight, this is simple: sell your book(s), but is it so simple?

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Marketing Tip: Choose A Publisher That Delivers

This is a warning based on my extensive experience. I have published two books. The first went as promised by the self-publisher. They did the marketing

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Table of Relationship Building

This is From My Master Writing Class Series! Today I want to talk to you about relationship building. The Relationship Life Cycle The Tools of Relationship

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Kindle and Createspace Self Publishing

Kindle: Soon as I published my book in amazon.com, I am not very happy that Amazon is showing my contents up to Chapter 2, so I unpublished it again.

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The Netflix of children's ebooks - why the community is key in self-publishing

When we set out to create uTales.com - a new world of digital picture books for kids - we knew we wanted to create a platform where new talent in children's

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My try at Book Marketing Tips

Well, I can´t give any tips that haven´t been given before but I certainly will try. To write a book is really not all that difficult, may it be Fiction

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My Number One Book Marketing Tip--Major Publishers Don't Have One, By Wayne Kronz

On the surface, this title doesn't even make sense. Certainly Doubleday, Thomas Nelson, and Harvard Business Publishing know everything there is to know

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