Criminal Minds: Pro-mojo from James W. Ziskin

Criminal Minds: Pro-mojo from James W. Ziskin: What is the best money you ever spent on promotion and marketing? Travel for bookstore reading events? Advertising? (If so, where—in a confe...

Kathleen Marple Kalb's Blog: So You Wrote the Book, Now What?: Out Here on My Own

 Kathleen Marple Kalb's Blog: So You Wrote the Book, Now What?: Out Here on My Own

Writer Beware: Why Cheap Promo is No Bargain: One Unusually Prolific Example

 Writer Beware: Why Cheap Promo is No Bargain: One Unusually Prolific Example

SleuthSayers: Taking Stock, Moving On

SleuthSayers: Taking Stock, Moving On: Sports franchises going through poor seasons say they're having a "rebuilding year" because it sounds better than "terrib...

Lesa's Book Critiques: ELLEN BYRON’S BEARS GIVEAWAY

 Lesa's Book Critiques: ELLEN BYRON’S BEARS GIVEAWAY

SleuthSayers: Mr. Swartwood’s Marvelous Box of BOGO Swag

SleuthSayers: Mr. Swartwood’s Marvelous Box of BOGO Swag: My wife runs a monthly authors-in-conversation series at a local watering hole. She started it just before Covid hit, went virtual during t...

Rebecca Bradley: Can You Sell Books via Social Media?

Rebecca Bradley: Can You Sell Books via Social Media?

Do Some Damage: The Return of No One Wants To Read Your Book

Do Some Damage: The Return of No One Wants To Read Your Book: By David Nemeth Last month I wrote a post here called " No One Wants to Read Your Book " and today is a variation of that th...

Do Some Damage: That Writer

Do Some Damage: That Writer: by Thomas Pluck Are you one of those writers who shrinks like a salted slug when someone asks you about your writing? Let me put on my A...

Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: Mega-List of Free Promotional Sites for Self-Publi...

Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: Mega-List of Free Promotional Sites for Self-Publi...: The hardest task faced by self-published authors is promotion. Self-published authors don't have the resources of large, or even small...

Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Business Musings: Newsletters and Discoverability

Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Business Musings: Newsletters and Discoverability

The Man Who Didn't Want to be Known (Lindy's Lair)

The Man Who Didn't Want to be Known (Lindy's Lair)

Promotion is fun. Sometimes. by Kathleen Delaney (Bookbrowsing Blog)

Promotion is fun. Sometimes. by Kathleen Delaney  (Bookbrowsing Blog)

Why Do I Need Twitter? By Lorie Ham (Bookbrowsing Blog)

Why Do I Need Twitter? By Lorie Ham (Bookbrowsing Blog)

Joan Reeves: 5 Free Ways to Promote (Slingwords)

Joan Reeves: 5 Free Ways to Promote: Once upon a time, regardless of the product to sell, everyone viewed the Internet as an easy and free way to get rich without trying. All y...



Way better than what some folks do on Facebook where they spam every twelve or twenty four hours on their book. It gets very old...even when I really liked the book.

The South Jersey Writers' Group Blog: Loner in the Garret: A Writer's Companion

The South Jersey Writers' Group Blog: Loner in the Garret: A Writer's Companion: Guest blog post by Jennifer R. Hubbard  Last year, I gave a talk for the South Jersey Writers’ Group called, “It Was Sunny Just a Mi...

Via Prose&Cons: Writers: Are You Using Hashtags Effectively?

Prose&Cons: Writers: Are You Using Hashtags Effectively?: If you're anything like me I was utterly baffled using hashtags. Sure, I'd seen them around. You'd have to be blind not to see ...

Via THE STILETTO GANG: Signal Boosting

THE STILETTO GANG: Signal Boosting: by Linda Rodriguez I have piles of books sitting on my coffee table right now. None of them are mine. Some of them are from peopl...

Via The Practicing Writer-- Friday Finds for Writers

Friday Finds for Writers

Via Do Some Damage: Authors against book festivals

Do Some Damage: Authors against book festivals: By Steve Weddle Brian McClellan, an author I knowest not but seems like a decent fellow, wrote a post the other day about the economics of...