Many authors think getting their work published in an anthology is great for visibility. They’re right. But not for the reason they think.
Often the author thinks, “Hey! My story’s published in an anthology! Now the publishers of the anthology are going to make me famous!”
The actual publishers of the anthology will probably not market the book as much as the author expects. Even if the publishers do market the anthology with tremendous gusto, that marketing isn’t what creates the majority of the book’s attention. read more »»
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I thought that if I made my ebook have a layout exactly like my print book, that would be enough to make my ebook sell well. The truth is, by going from print to ebook, I made the layout identical and that was a mistake. I missed out on making news of the release of my ebook spread like wildfire, and I missed out on making sure I got plenty of good reviews from my ebook sales. If I had just added a few extra components to my ebook layout, I could have made more sales and received more reviews.
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On Facebook, I’ve seen a lot of authors (myself included) asking for tags and likes on their Amazon sales page.
Waste of time.
Though it’s seductively simple to ask friends and followers to tag and like your Amazon page, there are better marketing methods to request from your friends and followers that are just as simple and take just as much time.
Many entrepreneurs think any testimonial a client writes is a good testimonial. The truth is that many testimonials sound so much like fluff, prospective clients will ignore them. And if you just give guidelines to your clients or sample testimonials to choose from, your testimonials will be priceless!
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I’ve been asked several times to help someone register his or her copyright. At the risk of inciting the wrath of my fellow copyright attorneys, I’ll put in print what I’ve told these people: while I’m happy to do so, you don’t need an attorney to file a copyright.
When my thriller The Torah Codes gets a review, the reviewer almost always says the novel is a page-turner. One of my favorite reviews said, “the pages seem to turn themselves.” I use a specific method for coming up with a page-turning plot. Here is how I do it.
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May 16th, 2012 | by Ezra Barany
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