Guest Expert: Roger C. Parker
The following Commandments are based on identifying the characteristics commonly found in successful nonfiction book titles.
Used by themselves, and in combination with each other, these following can help you choose a nonfiction book title that accurately describes why readers should pay attention to your book, is easy to say, and easy to remember.
Why nonfiction book titles matter
The title you choose for your nonfiction book plays a “make or break” role Read more [...]
Archive for: August 2010
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Create a Facebook Page for Your Book
You Can Create a Facebook (Business) Page for Your Book
Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller
Facebook has made a lot of changes since Phyllis shared this post. You can read her updated post on Creating Facebook Pages here.
You are probably already on Facebook (along with 500 million people around the world at the current reported count) with a personal page known as a profile page.
But did you know that you can also create a (business) page for your book?
First, an explanation: Facebook Read more [...]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: 10 Ways to Market a Book on Facebook
Guest Expert: Breana Orland
The face in Facebook has changed dramatically over the last five years. No longer is it a meeting ground for fresh-faced college students. Facebook has become a one-stop virtual home for friends, families and businesses to inform and learn about life outside the confines of the World Wide Web. This change in demographics has shifted the way Facebook actually works. These changes are the catalyst for how it can be used as a great tool to market just about anything. Here Read more [...]
BookBuzzr Interviews The Book Midwife
BookBuzzr is pleased to interview Mindy Gibbins-Klein, better known as Founder of The Book Midwife. She has helped hundreds of experts get their message out into the market by writing and publishing the best possible books, ebooks, articles and other products. A trained coach and marketing consultant with over 18 years of experience, Mindy believes that every book deserves to be written and published, but only if it is the best book it can be.
What exactly does a Book Midwife do?
We’re Read more [...]
4 Ways for Published Print-Only Authors To Market Their Books on Kindle
If you are published author and your book is still only available in print format you're probably getting seriously frustrated. You see so many other books in your category being offered as a Kindle book. While your own book is available only in dead-tree format.What can you do to promote your book to the universe of Kindle users?
Here are 4 things that you can do:
1. Setup a Kindle edition of your blog - A Kindle blog is like a regular blog but is auto-delivered to Kindle devices. You can Read more [...]
Book Marketing Mondays: The Single Best Marketing Tool for an Author
Guest Expert: C. Patrick Schulze
In my last article for Bookbuzzr, I discussed the need to identify your niche market, those people who might purchase your book. Today, we're going to discuss one of the major tools you use to market to those potential customers, your blog.
If you're unfamiliar with the idea of a blog, the term comes from the contraction of the phrase, "web log." A blog is simply a way to post whatever you wish to the Internet. Many think of it as a free, simple, easy-to-maintain Read more [...]
BookBuzzr Interviews Author Mary Muhammad
Ms. Muhammad is an award winning author of poetry and prose. She is the author of two children books, one being a tool to help parents discuss the issue of sexual abuse with their children and the other a chapter book of short stories filled with adventure.
She has also her first young adult novel Love Laws which is the first of two sequels and was nominated for the 2009 Cyblis Award. Her recent work being a work of poetry called Journeys of a Soul.
Her first book of poetry released in 2007 titled Read more [...]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Ten Ways to Sell Books On Amazon
Guest Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Know this: I hate talking about book sales for a whole lot of reasons. The thing is today I have to talk about them because I want to to talk about Amazon ratings and I can’t talke about them without talking about selling books.
You may be asking why I don’t like to talk about book sales. It’s that there are more important things to talk about like cross promotion and branding. You may know that I believe if you network well, you won't have to sell Read more [...]
BookBuzzr Interviews Cristyn West – Author of ‘Plain Jane’
Cristyn West describes herself as, "I find catching serial killers (on paper of course), well... fun.
Do you really need to know anything more about me?
Ok, fine, I am also a veterinarian (for real, not just in my own head like the serial killer thing) and I find the thought of having a romance with a homo chiroptera pretty hot.
See? I told you, you didn't want to know anything else!"
BookBuzzr recently interviewed Cristyn West who is the author of the book 'Plain Jane'
1. Welcome Read more [...]
