My email inbox is getting crowded with a lot of surefire offers lately. So many people offer online courses to help me learn marketing so I can sell more books. Here are some examples from my inbox. Nick Stephenson’s Your First 10,000 Readers Bryan Cohen Selling for Authors Joanna Penn, the Creative Penn—three courses, including […]
This week, guest blogger marketing marvel Jens-Petter Berget, owner of the SlyMarketing blog and company, reveals some of the best, most practical advice on how to market your books I’ve ever read. (This post originally appeared on the old Scott’s Written Words blog.) I say that I was a failed writer because I could not finish what I […]
This guest post from Martin Crosbie originally ran on my Blogger blog in 2012, and it’s well worth reading again. Martin’s excellent self-published book, My Temporary Life, achieved a great deal of attention in the major media for hitting number 1 on Amazon. Here, Martin explains how he did it. This topic became the basis of […]
Creative Commons I am not a self-publisher, because I did not publish my books by myself. I was part of a team of talented, dedicated, professional, skilled and very giving people, to whom I am indebted and grateful. You know by now that my new book, Army of Worn Soles, will publish in e-book form […]
Guest post by David Small, the Wandering Promoter This Monday blog features guest blogger David Small, author, international hockey coach and entrepreneur. His new book, The Wandering Leader, launched on Valentine’s Day and is already climbing the Amazon bestseller lists in non-fiction. David hails from Kenora, Ontario — I town I spent many summer weeks […]
A guest post by author consultant Barb Drozdowich I’d like to thank Scott for inviting me to share some thoughts today. I’ve published four books focused at helping authors. They cover a variety of subjects and basically represent needs that I see in my day job, teaching authors WordPress and helping them with various social […]