Due to overwhelming request, we've begun migrating our previously "available only to Booknook.biz" Resources section--over 80 links and sites helpful to the Indy Published author--to our Knowledgebase. As part of this effort, we're adding our resources a bit at a time, focusing heavily at first on marketing tools and techniques as well as other areas (like cover designers, how to create/obtain a cover template, how to work with Twitter articles, etc.)
Today's addition--someone well known to many of you--is Jeffrey Marks, award-winning novelist, marketing and publicity Guru, and his most recent Kindle Book, the Fourth Edition of his immensely popular "Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel." For those of you who don't know Jeff, he's not talking out of his hat; he's won a number of awards including the an Anthony in 2009 for his Anthony Boucher biography; Barnes and Noble Prize; and he has been nominated for an Edgar (MWA), an Agatha (Malice Domestic), a Maxwell award (DWAA), and an Anthony award (Bouchercon). We're delighted to mention that Booknook.biz produced this fourth version for him, in digital (ePUB and MOBI) formats, but having disclosed this--we'd be recommending Jeff, his novels, his book…
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By Hitch on 03/28/12 - 11:34pm in
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One of our favorite clients, Tom Gates, author of Wayward, is celebrating this week; his book has just topped the charts at iBooks, holding down the #1 spot in Travel Books, doing so in a matter of a mere few weeks. Tom talks about his book and experience in this interview in Matador. (n.b.: adult language in the interview). The book is knocking them dead on iBooks as well as Amazon, climbing to Amazon's top-ten in "travel essays," although that description doesn't do it service. Witty, charming, (and a hoot to work with), Tom shows how self-publishing can be the road forward--and a successful one, at that--for those of you with unheard voices.
Tom was also kind enough to give old Booknook.biz a plug, for which we are, of course, grateful.
To find Tom's book on your Amazon Kindle, you can click-thru this link: Wayward: Fetching Tales from a Year on the Road
. Don't miss this one!
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By Hitch on 03/23/12 - 11:20am in
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As I actually had an inquiry yesterday, asking if we were "still in business," (!), I figured I'd better tell everyone that yes, we're back from our Holiday break, even if I have been dilatory about changing out the Christmas-New Year's phone message. We're swamped, surprisingly--so our queue is running a little longer than usual (2 full weeks on fiction titles, longer on complex titles), and we are literally inundated with requests for quotes.
So, yes: we're back in the usual swing of things!
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By Hitch on 01/17/12 - 2:20am in
