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Tips And Resources To Create Professionally Looking Book Trailers

Tips And Resources To Create Professionally Looking Book Trailers

Treasure Map To Create Professionally Looking Book Trailers From the Comfort Of Your Home   Book Trailer Treasure Map is a new product launch by self-published authors Deborah Drum and Amy Harrop, who also created the awesome Publisher’s Review Accelerator reviewed here. This step by step guide to produce video book trailers is a multimedia training course in five modules. Each module contains a number of instructional videos, together with downloadable manuals, templates, checklists, etc. All the resources are accessible via a … Read entire article »

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Opportunity to get a professional recording for your book at cost!

Opportunity to get a professional recording for your book at cost!

Message from the blog founder   Opportunity to get a professional recording for your book at cost!   … Read entire article »

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Author Interview – Marlayna Glynn Brown – Invaluable Tips on Book Promotion

Author Interview – Marlayna Glynn Brown – Invaluable Tips on Book Promotion

Author Interview – Marlayna Glynn Brown - Invaluable Tips on Book Promotion Marlayna Glynn Brown is a published writer and an award winning photographer.  She’s also a screenwriter, actress, producer, poet, and yogi. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, she bases many of her unusual characters and unexpected story lines on true events.  She has a BA in English Literature, and an MA in Human Services, but insists she has learned the most from her four teenage children and … Read entire article »

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How to Write a Blurb

How to Write a Blurb

How to Write a Blurb – guest post by @thewritershouse (via The Masquerade Crew) Buffer The following is a guest post by Claire Pickering and Rebecca Richmond at The Writers’ House UK. Blog: http://www.writershouse.co.uk/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WritersHouseUK LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/claire-pickering/25/7a8/200 Follow @thewritershouse Have you ever… … Read entire article »

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Author Interview – Rachelle Ayala: All You Need To Know About Book Promotion and Editing

Author Interview – Rachelle Ayala: All You Need To Know About Book Promotion and Editing

Author Interview – Rachelle Ayala: All You Need To Know About Book Promotion and Editing Rachelle Ayala was a software engineer until she discovered storytelling works better in fiction than real code. She has over thirty years of writing experience and has always lived in a multi-cultural environment. The tapestry of characters in her books reflect that diversity. Rachelle is currently working on a romantic suspense involving software engineers. She is a very happy woman and lives … Read entire article »

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Amazon, ebooks and advertising

Amazon, ebooks and advertising

Amazon, ebooks and advertising (via Tools of Change for Publishing) This post originally appeared on Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog (“Why Advertising Could Become Amazon’s Knockout Punch“). This version has been lightly edited. It all started harmlessly enough with Amazon’s Kindle with Special Offers. That’s the cheaper Kindle that displays ads when… … Read entire article »

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3 Tools For Managing a Killer Multi-Author Blog

3 Tools For Managing a Killer Multi-Author Blog

3 Tools For Managing a Killer Multi-Author Blog (via http://www.convinceandconvert.com) Looking back it was pretty clear I was into publishing. Since then, I have worked on over a dozen publications, enjoying the role of editor for newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and corporate blogs over the course of 15 years. Today I am the main editor for SocialFresh.com, a blog that has welcomed… … Read entire article »

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Direct sales should be a publisher priority

Direct sales should be a publisher priority

Direct sales should be a publisher priority (via Tools of Change for Publishing) This post is part of the TOC podcast series. You can also subscribe to the free TOC podcast through iTunes. We’re focusing on retailing topics this month at TOC, and when it comes to digital sales, one of a publisher’s highest priorities should be building a strong direct channel. The shift from… … Read entire article »

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How Crowd Funding has Transformed the Publishing Landscape Through Hybrid Advances

How Crowd Funding has Transformed the Publishing Landscape Through Hybrid Advances

How Crowd Funding has Transformed the Publishing Landscape Through Hybrid Advances (via PR Newswire) LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – New Trends in Publishing lead a California educator, Joseph Gutiz, to seek help in funding by offering pre-orders of his humorous, anti-bullying, and pro sports children’s book through the reward filled crowd-funding site, Kickstarter. Joseph Gutiz, Author…     … Read entire article »

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Pricing lessons learned from a publishing startup

Pricing lessons learned from a publishing startup

Pricing lessons learned from a publishing startup (via Tools of Change for Publishing) This post is part of the TOC podcast series. You can also subscribe to the free TOC podcast through iTunes. July’s TOC theme is “pricing,” but we didn’t want to limit the focus to ebook pricing. It’s also important to consider the pricing models of the tools we use to create those ebooks.… … Read entire article »

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