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Guest: Marcus Taylor, co-author of the book Get Noticed About four months ago Rob (co-author) and I were discussing whether to self-publish our book or instead go down the traditional publishing route, in the end we chose to self-publish – after all, we had written a book about getting noticed, so we decided to put [...]
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5 Lessons I Learnt About Book Marketing from Writing Get Noticed
November 29th, 2011 
Posted in Book Marketing 
Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, Get Noticed, Getting Noticed, Personal Brand 
1 Comment »3 Steps to e-Book Cover Design Success
November 28th, 2011 Guest Expert: Joel Friedlander The move to e-books has brought with it a new challenge for book cover designers, amateur and professional. The first challenge, of course, if you’ve been designing book covers for any time, is to understand exactly what an e-book cover really is. Unlike print books, which we can pick up and [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, e-Book Cover, e-Book Cover Design, ebook 6 Comments »Is the eBook Expressway Every Author’s Back Road — to Big Bucks & a Bona Fide Writing Career?
November 25th, 2011 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 [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, ebook, eBook Platform, eBook Revolution, ebooks 7 Comments »Congratulations Carolyn on Winning USA “BEST BOOKS 2011” Award!
November 24th, 2011 Recently 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 [...]
Posted in Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Awards, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, USA BEST BOOKS 2011 Award 8 Comments »EEEEEE-books!! 5 Top Questions
November 23rd, 2011 A 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 [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, ebook, eBook Platform, ebook pricing, ebook publishing, ebooks, pricing, publishing 1 Comment »Going Digital with eBooks
November 21st, 2011 Guest 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 [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, ebook, eBook Platform, ebook pricing, ebooks, pricing 1 Comment »Smart Strategies for Pricing Your Ebook
November 14th, 2011 Guest 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 [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, ebook, eBook Platform, ebook pricing, ebooks, pricing 8 Comments »Plan your (eBook) “Flight” and “Fly Your Plan”
November 11th, 2011 Expert: 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 [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, ebook, eBook Platform, ebooks 2 Comments »Having a Eye-Catching Author Website is Easier Than You Think
November 9th, 2011 Guest: 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 [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: author website, Authors, Book Marketing, Eye-Catching Author Website, Google Analytics, Wordpress 1 Comment »Ten Reasons Your Book Should Be an E-Book, Too
November 7th, 2011 Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson I like to think of myself as a writer of fiction and a poet. So I had a tendency to resist the e-book landslide when it first came tumbling around the ears of creative writers. But then—thankfully—my past retail experience took hold. (See my how-to books for retailers at www.howotoditfrugally.com/retailers_books.htm.) I realized [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, ebook, ebooks 6 Comments »
