How BookBuzzr’s New, One-Click-Win Feature is Different from Amazon Free Day Promotions
Reviews!
You can love them or hate them. But you can’t ignore them. All your marketing efforts will come to naught if your readers land on an Amazon page with just 1 or 2 reviews which look like they’ve been written by your friends.
One way to get reviews for your book is running an Amazon free day promotion. This works well for many authors although I’ve read on a few forums that the Read more [...]
Find your horse to ride
In life, we all need a horse to ride. Without the horse, we are a small fraction of what we could be.
When I was 13, my parents took me to a motor museum at a grand country house. Big yawn. Happily, there was a donkey derby alongside it, and they agreed to let me ride a donkey. Being bigger and heavier than the other kids, nobody backed me and the bookmakers pushed my odds out to 66-1 against. Whereupon my dad surprised them by plonking down a fiver on me – after a moment’s hesitation, Read more [...]
Why do so many writers use words that might be difficult for some readers?
I've never understood this. The message becomes more difficult to decipher, and more than half the time I quit reading due to the complexity of the article/blog/novel. Why wouldn't you want a more simple message, that could target a broader audience?
Read Quote of Laura Copeland's answer to Writing: Why do so many writers use words that might be difficult for some readers? on Quora
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BookBuzzr Interviews Best Selling Author Roberta Kagan
BB: Hello Roberta. We recently saw that your book – ‘All My Love, Detrick’ broke into a top 10 list on Amazon. Congratulations!
Thank you so much. I appreciate your taking the time to interview me.
The screenshot below was taken on March 26th, 2013.
BB: Can you tell us a little about yourself?
Since I was a kid I loved to read. It was my escape whenever things got rough. I learned that books can take you anywhere, to another country, to another time period, or even Read more [...]
5 Tips for Marketing Your Book Online
For the last four years I’ve been running an online digital publishing platform (which we've recently rebranded as ReadWave), that aims to help writers build up a readership online. During that time I’ve had access to a lot of data on what people read online, when they read, and most importantly, why some writers are successful in getting readers and others aren’t. Here are some of the key insights that I’ve learned over the last four years, which hopefully will help you think about Read more [...]
The Genesis of the Novel MRS. LIEUTENANT: Inspired by Actual Events
In May of 1970 I accompanied my new husband to Ft. Knox, Kentucky, where he was scheduled to enter active military duty by attending Armor Officers Basic.
Mitch and I had met at Michigan State University and he was in Army ROTC. Initially wanting to wait to marry until after he had served his two-year commitment, he changed his mind and we were now married.
Although the U.S. Army did not tell him he could bring his wife, I was not staying home. We drove south from Chicago in Read more [...]
No-Holds Barred Author Interview – How to do a Kindle Free Day
A few years ago, if you gave away a copy of your free book, you could expect at least a few readers to gratefully read through your book and leave a review. Today, the competition is intense with Amazon listing thousands of free books at any given point in time. Many authors struggle to get readers to find and download their books on the Kindle free days. And people who download them might not read them, let alone review them.
In this interview, BookBuzzr author Owen Choi shares his Kindle Read more [...]
Book Marketing Commandment 10 of 10 – Write Many Books
How I discovered Roald Dahl
Growing up, I had never heard the name of Roald Dahl (for some reason, he was not a big name in India when I was a kid.) However, a few years ago, my daughter began reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I did not read the book but the name caught my eye and registered somewhere in my head. And when I chanced upon Roald Dahl’s autobiography – Going Solo - in the library, I picked it up. Now I’ve moved on to a giant book of his collected short stories Read more [...]
