Promoting poetry books and your poetry is very similar to promoting any other type of writing, using many of the ideas that have already been introduced on this blog.  Some of the posts that you might find helpful include the following, titles are clickable: 50 Ways to Promote Your Book on Twitter Promote Your Book [...]

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Net10 for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. When you are a new author or in any kind of business, you are looking for ways to save money…and very conscious of your business expenses…as well as your personal-life expenses. Many authors and people in [...]

That’s what I’m in the middle of finding out. I’m exactly half way through reading a book by Norma Budden that I downloaded for Kindle. Anyone who knows me well knows that I don’t like a book unless it grabs me right from the start. If I am not interested in the first few pages, [...]

Book promotion online has become so much easier with social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, but you have to know how to use these tools to your best advantage. Back in January, the Book Marketing Expert Newsletter contained a list of 50 ways to use twitter to promote yourself and your book, but in [...]

This is a mother-daughter story.  It is the story of a mother, Kliot, who used her ingenuity to survive as a Jew in Germany during the Holocaust in ways that were new to me.  But it is also the story of the mother’s daughter, Mitsios, who in her teen years is told that she is [...]

Memorial Day is this weekend, Flag Day arrives June 14th, and Independence Day (4th of July) will be here before we know it. This will mean time off from work for some…time to rest, and hopefully time to reflect on the sacrifices made to preserve freedom, and celebrating that freedom. Generally I like to watch [...]

I’m curious to see what this is all about, but apparently Author Marketing Experts is putting together a new book promotion platform that will spread the word about your book uniquely – and fast! This is a way to get your books noticed by involving the reader in sharing information about your book in a [...]

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of GameTreat for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. As I write on my blogs and my website, I think about how the content might interest the reader from an "intellectual" point of view, or practical point of view, but I've given little thought to [...]

I joined Clickbank a while back thinking that it would be a helpful way to make a little extra money.  It can also be a great way for a publisher to promote their eBook.  Generally the program seems like a good one if you know what you’re doing, but I have a few “pet peeves” [...]

If you are an author promoting your book through a blog, or a person like myself who blogs on a regular basis, this information on the timing of your posts will be of interest to you. I am not a morning person, but apparently, posting at about 8 AM EST can be prime time to [...]