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Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield While rarely noticed, there’s an instructive parallel between people who yearn to be famous authors and those who yearn to be famous actors. The mainstream literary scene, like Hollywood, is constellated by twenty-five or so big-name authors with literary-auction-level fame (and among actors, by twenty-five or so who possess mega-watt star [...]
Congratulations Carolyn on Winning USA “BEST BOOKS 2011” Award!
November 24th, 2011 
8Recently we got to know that Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a BookBuzzr Author won The USA “BEST BOOKS 2011” Award for best business book in the writing category for her new edition of The Frugal Book Promoter. Congratulations Carolyn! (USABookNews.com, is the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses.) We’ve invited Carolyn [...]
EEEEEE-books!! 5 Top Questions
November 23rd, 2011 1A short intro to digital media for authors who haven’t got a clue Guest Expert: Lynn Serafinn I’m a fairly techie person. I’m on the computer so much I might has well have a microprocessor implanted into my brain so I didn’t have to sit at my desk all the time. But although I’m pretty [...]
How to Create a Viral QuickQuiz
November 22nd, 2011 5Some of you may already know about the new viral book marketing technology from BookBuzzr named QuickQuiz. This book marketing technology can be extremely powerful when used in the right way. This article gives you a few guidelines on how to create a QuickQuiz game that gets you the best returns on the time that [...]
Going Digital with eBooks
November 21st, 2011 1Guest Expert: Paula Krapf “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” Stephen Fry What’s relatively inexpensive to produce, has a quick turnaround time, and is Evergreen? In the publishing world, we’re talking about eBooks. Once mostly unknown and obscure documents with limited distribution, eBooks in some cases now outsell hardback and [...]
Announcing QuickQuiz – The World’s First Viral Marketing Technology for Books
November 18th, 2011 1At BookBuzzr, we’ve been hard at work creating a brand new technology that will allow you to market your book in a viral manner on Facebook through quick quizzes. We’ve spoken about this technology in earlier newsletters. We used to refer to it as QuizBuzzr then. We’ve now renamed the technology as QuickQuiz based on [...]
Book Review: ‘Get Published Today’ by Penny Sansevieri
November 17th, 2011 1For too long, the publishing industry has been a mysterious, clubby, closed business. Authors have had to struggle with a number of unanswered questions. Questions like, “What makes a best-seller?”, “What is a Co-op?” or “What are Reserves against returns?” In her book, ‘Get Published Today’, Penny Sansevieri answers such questions and more. The sub-title [...]
Smart Strategies for Pricing Your Ebook
November 14th, 2011 6Guest Expert: Dana Lynn Smith There’s no doubt that ebooks sales are sizzling, and ebooks have even surpassed sales of printed books on Amazon.com. But the publishing industry continues to wrestle with the issue of how to price ebooks competitively, while still providing a reasonable profit for authors and publishers. Consumers expect ebook prices to [...]
Plan your (eBook) “Flight” and “Fly Your Plan”
November 11th, 2011 2Expert: Claudia Jackson Pilots use checklists for pre-flight and pre-landing operations. A checklist helps keep a pilot focused, remember important details and most importantly help them make good decisions to prevent simple errors that might otherwise lead to disaster. In order for your book get a great take-off you need a checklist. Keep in mind [...]
Having a Eye-Catching Author Website is Easier Than You Think
November 9th, 2011 1Guest: Frank Anderson I’m not an author, I’m a web designer and web hosting manager. I’ve never written a book, but I’ve seen hundreds, if not thousands of websites created by authors to pitch their latest project. And it makes me cringe every time I see a book with so much potential ruined for the [...]
