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Recommendations for Book Covers
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
BOOK COVER RECOMMENDATIONS Every week, I receive several questions from authors about publishing and marketing. One of the most common requests is recommendations for book covers. I designed all of my own covers until I met Melissa Stevens. She can pull off some amazing effects that I can’t, and she is…
A Little White Lie – Part 12
Originally posted on Sci-Fi and Fantasy by Dellani:
The team has been assembled. Now, it’s show time. Aurialonus made demands again, gesticulating wildly, roaring in anger. Mediators tried to clarify his stipulations, but no one could figure out what he wanted. Time was running out. The team was as ready as it could be, given…
What is it About Hiring a Publicist that Makes Authors Cringe?
It’s all about the numbers game. As an author we want to reach as wide a market as possible to sell more books to more people – those of us who’ve chosen to attempt to get paid for our writing that is. So we scrimp and save to hire the right cover designer, the best…
Casting the First Stone
Originally posted on Janet Marcusse:
I often receive hate mail. It normally comes in the form of a rejection of my innocence claims by Judge Robert Holmes Bell. Sometimes I receive actual hate mail from people who don’t know me at all, people who say that they wouldn’t blink an eye if I was tortured…
An easy way to sell more books
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
Effrosyni Moschoudi was the very first one to suggest to me this little trick, and I have since used it with all my books. Now, Jonathan Gunson has written a great post with the same easy way to sell more books, as a comment on a presentation by Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler.…
#Read about Guest #Author Francis H. Powell
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
What better way to put all my angst into short stories. Born in a commuter belt city called Reading and like many a middle or upper class child of such times I was shunted off to an all-male boarding school aged eight, away from my…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 