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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 [...]

How to Become a Best Selling Author on Amazon

BookBuzzr subscriber Steena Holmes has been zooming up the Amazon charts. Her book - Finding Emma – has hit the top of the charts on Amazon. Here are some stats for the book: # 1 in three different categories #13 on the Amazon best seller list. Over 125 book reviews   The screenshot below was taken on August 22nd, 2012. BookBuzzr CEO Vikram Narayan sat down (virtually of course) to chat with Steena and get her views on a variety of issues related to indie Read more [...]

Announcing the Winners of the Facebook Fan Page Widget Contest (aka The BookBuzzr Olympics!)

A few weeks ago, we announced a Facebook Fan Page Widget Contest. Our in-house team evaluated a number of Facebook fan pages created using the BookBuzzr Facebook AuthorPage Widget technology.  This list of fan pages are available in the presentation below. Clicking on the links will take you to the author's Facebook fan page. BookBuzzr AuthorPage Widget Samples from BookBuzzr   We confess that it was really hard in choosing a winner. Our in-house team of 3 judges made evaluations Read more [...]

THE SECRET OF SELECTING KEY WORDS FOR ADWORDS

Guest Expert: J.P. Thompson So, you are thinking about an AdWords ad campaign, are you? Let me begin. “Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.” – Sheldon ‘Big Bang Theory’ Setting up an AdWords campaign can, at times, seem like you trying to follow a discussion with Sheldon Read more [...]

How to Install the New BookBuzzr AuthorPage Widget

The BookBuzzr team has released a new version of the popular BookBuzzr Facebook fan page widget (aka AuthorPage Widget). If you are a BookBuzzr Pro Subscriber and want to share your BookBuzzr AuthorPage Widget on Facebook Fan Page here’s how you do it. This new version of the technology is designed to spice up your Facebook fan page and give your readers a chance to really get to know you and your work. We've taken care to build the pieces which Facebook does not give you. These include: Read more [...]

You Can Create a Facebook Page for Your Book

Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller Since I first wrote an article on this subject for BookBuzzr in August 2010, Facebook has made many changes. Regardless of the changes, creating a Facebook Page for your book or books can be a good promotional strategy. (Note: Previously, you needed to create a Facebook personal profile before you could create a Facebook Page. That requirement has now been eliminated.) People “like” your Page instead of becoming a “fan” of your fan page (you Read more [...]

How to Market Your Book on Facebook Like a Best Selling Author (Without Spending a Fortune)

Have you ever had a pang of Facebook fan page envy? You know, the kind you feel when you stumble upon a famous author's fan page, and it looks really nice with lots of shiny little widgets and things to do? And then you move on with a sigh wishing that you had a large budget to be able to afford a creative agency to get your Facebook fan page done for you? Those days are now behind you. With the new BookBuzzr fan page widget releasing today, you will be able to customize your fan page with Read more [...]

I Have the Book to Prove It

Guest Author: Rebecca Elswick As we say here in the coalfields of Southwest Virginia – There’s more than one way to skin a possum.” I cannot boast that I ever skinned a possum, but I can boast that I “contested” my way to the publication of my debut novel, Mama’s Shoes. Do you ever think about entering writing contests? Do you hesitate because you think you don’t have a chance? Do you say, “Nobody wins those contests anyway.”? Well, I can assure you that someone indeed does Read more [...]

Step Up by Stumbling

Improve on your book marketing with StumbleUpon Guest Expert: Anita Brady Marketing your book is not the same animal it was only a few short years ago. With the evolution of Facebook and the staggeringly fast bloom of social media sites, reaching your target readership can be a sticky web to untangle. But once you've determined what social approaches you want to use to promote your work, the web can become one of your best marketing tools. Even though Facebook is quickly approaching the Read more [...]

Discover Your Next Book at Freado’s Summer Romance Festival

A celebration of sizzling romance books for your enjoyment this summer We are celebrating the best romance books of 2012 in the online summer romance festival that is being held on Freado from the 25th of June to the 31st of July. If you are a lover of books with a romantic theme you will enjoy this. In this one-of-a-kind festival you can: - Play games and participate in quizzes related to romantic books, cities, movies and more - Win books and other prizes that are designed to appeal Read more [...]