The received wisdom of merchandizing handouts for promoting your book is that you need bookmarks and picture postcards to give out at your readings and personal appearances. While I wanted to do that, it never quite worked out. My first book, Emperor Dad was done as an experiment and while I ordered the PR kit… Continue reading Book Business Cards
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Thumbing Through the Pages
One of the disadvantages of selling my novels via my webpage, or by allowing people to buy them via Amazon or B&N online or any of the other on-line webstores is that people have a long history of picking up a book, and reading a few pages to get the feel for the book. That’s… Continue reading Thumbing Through the Pages
Pricing My Books
With the additional interest in ebooks caused by the Kindle and the ebook reader programs on the iPhone, the topic of valid prices for electronic books vs the price tag on a paper copy has been circulating around the net. Many big name books have the same price on the downloadable version as you’ll find… Continue reading Pricing My Books