The Power of Byline Articles for Fiction and Non-Fiction Book Marketing
By Sandra Poirier Smith Whether working on your own or with a publicist, a byline article is an excellent book marketing tool to help build or continue to build your expertise, credibility, and brand....
View Article7 Tips to Finding the Right Designer for Your Book
by Tamara Dever and Erin Stark Why do I need to hire a professional? A book’s cover and interior design have a great deal to do with whether reviewers and buyers investigate a title further. In fact,...
View ArticlePower Book Publicity Tips Newsletter June 2015
The Power of Byline Articles for Fiction and Non-Fiction Book Marketing By Sandra Poirier Smith Whether working on your own or with a publicist, a byline article is an excellent book marketing tool to...
View Article4 Great Ways to Promote Your Children’s Book
Once you’ve written and published your children's book, it's time to start promoting, promoting, promoting. Children's books present many unique opportunities when it comes to book marketing and author...
View ArticleTop 5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Book Marketing Agency
Whether you're an indie author or New York Times bestseller, hiring a book marketing agency is a smart move. A professional book marketing agency has the experience, knowledge and resources needed to...
View Article4 Tips for a Successful Book Signing Event
A book signing event is a great way to spread the word about your book and connect with your target audience. To ensure your next book signing event is a success, consider the following tips from book...
View Article5 Tips for Author Promotion
Author promotion is an essential component of book marketing and can help you achieve more success with your comprehensive book marketing campaign. To produce more sales, consider these author...
View ArticleTips For Building a Loyal Following on Social Media to Help Market Your Book
By Brittney Karpovich, Social Media Expert Smith Publicity Social media can be a great way to bring attention to your book and author brand, and is now an integral part of most authors’ marketing...
View ArticleMonetizing Your Writing: Making Money Doing What You Love
By Karan Lodha, Director of Freelance Operations at Scripted Writing for a living is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, being a writer is one of the most fulfilling professions in the world....
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Tips For Building a Loyal Following on Social Media to Help Market Your Book By Brittney Karpovich, Social Media Expert Smith Publicity Social media can be a great way to bring attention to your book...
View Article7 Surefire Ways to Maximize Holiday Book Sales
Believe it or not, August is the time to start planning ways to sell more books around the holidays. There’s no doubt about it – books make great holiday gifts. They’re inexpensive, easy to find and...
View ArticleBeginner’s Guide to Running Ebook Price Promotions
One of the biggest challenges authors face is getting their books in front of new readers, especially since hundreds of thousands of books are published each year. A price promotion is one of the...
View Article5 Free Things You Can Do TODAY to Market Your Award-Winning Book
There are many wonderful ways to celebrate your award-winning book. That, of course, is the good news. The bad news is that everyone else is using the same channels for all kinds of things. With our...
View ArticlePower Book Publicity Tips August 2015
7 Surefire Ways to Maximize Holiday Book Sales Dan Smith, CEO/Founder, Smith Publicity Believe it or not, August is the time to start planning ways to sell more books around the holidays. There’s no...
View Article4 Book Promotion Strategies That No Longer Work
by Sandra Poirier Smith for BookBub.com The book publishing industry has experienced dramatic changes in the past couple decades. Previously, a few gatekeepers at major publishing houses determined...
View ArticleHow to Boost Your Chances of Getting a Publishers Weekly Review
by Carl Pritzkat, Vice President of Business Development, PWxyz Publishers Weekly launched BookLife, its website dedicated to indie authors, one year ago. BookLife is best known for allowing authors to...
View Article3 Tips To Get Your Story to A Producer In Hollywood (and why you don’t need a...
by Nat Mundel, Founder and CEO of Voyage Media When was the last time you were at the movies? If it was sometime in the past 50 years of so (please tell me it was!), then chances are you caught a flick...
View ArticlePower Book Publicity Tips September 2015
4 Outdated Book Promotion Strategies This article originally appeared as a guest post on the BookBub Partners Blog. by Sandra Poirier Smith for BookBub.com The book publishing industry has experienced...
View ArticleTips for author websites
As publicists, we see a huge value of an author website/blog. It serves as central hub where media, reviewers, fans can learn more about an author, book, expertise, blog, social media, events, etc. and...
View ArticleSeven Myths of Book Publicity
by Dan Smith There are many misconceptions about book publicity and book marketing; some are from a lack of knowledge and understanding, and some from outdated advice that no longer apply to today's...
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