So what did you think about this year’s Book Expo America? This year Book Expo was back in New York City for the first of five consecutive years.  As a New Yorker, I love the idea of not having to fly off to some exotic place like Chicago or LA but as an industry “insider”, [...]

I just finished compiling another issue of the SPAWN Market Update for the member area of the SPAWN website. That’s Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network, www.spawn.org.
In so doing, I had occasion to check publishers’ guidelines, their announced calls for submissions and their press releases telling about some innovative new publishing options for authors. Guess [...]

Special-sales marketing is the process of selling your books to individuals — or to professional buyers — in businesses other than bookstores. In non-bookstore marketing, a successful title is written in response to an identified need, is published in the form desired by the reader, then is properly priced, distributed and promoted directly to a [...]

Some authors and speakers have a hard time talking in front of a group of people.  As a result, here is a brief list of techniques that a person can use to help manage their fears of speaking in front of large groups of people.

A person should take a deep breath and try to find something [...]

During these bad economic times, do you still think it’s a good time to self publish a book? Normally I wouldn’t write about the same subject twice within a year but a lot has changed since I first wrote about this in the October issue. If you pay too much attention to the fear mongering [...]

So yesterday, I shared with a few friends news of a soon-to-be-independently-published* book I’ve been working on for the past year. I received several positive responses including one which read, “you could probably actually get a real book deal for this one.” That person later added, “it could be bigger than just putting it on [...]

I first self-published a book in 2001, whilst I was still teaching high school English and History in NSW state secondary schools (before my medical retirement), when my guide for secondary and tertiary students, Study Success Know-How, was assembled at the local Kinko’s copy center in a saddle-stitched format. After a wonderful review in Reading [...]