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Resolutions: Tis the Season for Supporting the Industry

Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson Aha! It is resolution time! I’d love to give authors advice on setting goals for the New Year. Here’s the thing: I’ve done that and—in the doing of it—realize that no one author can help another set goals because each author and each title is so different. I guess I sort of gave authors a whole book of possible resolutions to make in 2011 when I finished the second edition of The Frugal Book Promoter (http://budurl.com/FrugalBkPromo). I even got general Read more [...]

Have a Holly Jolly Promotion Season for Your Book

Or How to Jazz Up a Writing Career with Holiday Promotions Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson Have you heard of The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans? It was originally self-published. Evans believed in himself (and his book) when big publishers didn’t. When it did well, “lo and behold,” as they say in the Christmas stories. Someone saw the light. The motto here, for writers, is "Seasonal material sells." Especially things that can be given reasonably inexpensively during gift-giving Read more [...]

The Great BookBuzzr Christmas Giveaway

X-Mas is almost here and the giving spirit is all around us. We'd like to run a fun little contest and give away 10 prizes valued at over $200. Here's how the contest works: 1. On Twitter: Go to your twitter account and tweet one thing that you like about BookBuzzr. Make sure that you add the hashtag "#BBZR" to your tweet. This will help us to trace your tweet. Here's a sample tweet: "#BBZR - I love BookBuzzr because it helps get automatic, guaranteed eyeballs from my target audience for Read more [...]