books

  • A Day at The Library

                Years ago when my son was moving from kindergarten to the first grade there was a Summer Reading Program. The program covered all students in St. Louis, Missouri. If a student read five books over the summer, the reader received a certificate for an ice cream cone from the

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  • Excellent advice from Doris-Maria Heilmann with 111Publishing (Savvy Book Writers) about having a clear goal for your writing career. . . Do you have a clear goal for your writing career – and a plan how to reach your “dream job” – becoming a successful full-time writer? Or do you via Top 10 Commands for

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  • Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: I made this on Quozio.com My marketing strategy is really simple. In fact, it can be summed up as follows: Be real, be fun, be helpful. If you do that, people will buy your books simply because they will like you and will want to…

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  • KINDLE UNLIMITED

    Originally posted on chrismcmullen: Background image from ShutterStock ? KINDLE UNLIMITED Toward the end of July, 2014, Amazon introduced a new subscription service called Kindle Unlimited, which allows customers to read unlimited books for $9.99 (US price) per month. This includes 100,000 traditionally published books in addition to 600,000 KDP Select books. Most of the…

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  •     I found this article about Amazon Kindle Unlimited very interesting.  It confirms what I have heard from other authors about the backlash to the author insofar as book sales.  Evidently, Kindle Unlimited is offered up by Amazon as a loss leader to draw in other sales.  However, the author is the one taking

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  • . . … and How YOU Can Find Your Target Audience. As an author you need to know the answer how to find your target audience and set up accordingly via 7 Ways How Readers Can Find Your Book | Savvy Book Writers.

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  • 7 fool-proof marketing tips to promote your blog.

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  • Originally posted on chrismcmullen: AMAZON PUBLISHING It appears that Amazon is launching a new publishing program. Look for an announcement to come in the next couple of weeks. The reason for this article is just to give a heads-up. If you happen to have a novel in the works and this program may be of…

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  • By Sandra L. Jones, wife of The Author, Patrick Jones SO…He wrote a book…Now what do we do?? As The Author and I continue on through the Indie Author self-publishing platform, it is very obvious that the process typifies a continuous learning model.  It never ends!!  We continue to read, learn and implement our strategy

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