Interview with author and freelance editor Carolyn Howard Johnson

Carolyn Howard-Johnson is an award-winning author and poet, a columnist for MyShelf.com, and an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Her books include the popular titles The Frugal Promoter and The Frugal Editor, both USA Book News’ Award winners. She’s also the editor of Sharing With Writers and Readers newsletter. In this interview, she [...]

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Guest Post by J.A. Hunsinger, author of AXE OF IRON

Promoting and Marketing your Book
You have poured your heart and soul into writing your book. It has been the dominate passion of your life; otherwise you would not have a manuscript to hold. Now what?
I will assume that your manuscript is a first draft. Before you can send out query letters telling the world of [...]

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Interview with Jerry Simmons about Book Expo (BEA)

Interview by Penny Sansevieri
Each year we get a lot of questions about Book Expo (BEA). Authors and publishers are wondering if they should go, how they will benefit from it and most importantly, how best to maximize BEA. This year I decided to ask AME’s Publishing Consultant, Jerry D. Simmons for his take on BEA. [...]

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A Complete Guide to Promoting and Selling Your Self-Published Ebook

A Complete Guide to Promoting and Selling Your Self-Published Ebook
by Dorothy Thompson
http://www.pumpupyourbookpromotion.com
With the rise of the internet, electronic book publishing has become extremely popular. It’s relatively easy and inexpensive to create an ebook and sell it from a website. The hard part comes afterwards. Once the book is published, how do you promote it? [...]

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Interview with Jonathan Maberry, 2007 Bram Stoker Award Winner

What was your inspiration for your first novel, Ghost Road Blues? What’s it about?
It got started in a couple of different ways. My grandmother (who died in 1978 at 101) told me as a boy about the myths and legends –or as she called them ‘beliefs’ of the supernatural. I grew up knowing [...]

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Authors Tour the World with Virtual Book Tours

Over the years, authors who wanted to promote their books directly to the public had one main option; you had to physically travel across the country conducting book signings and readings in various bookstores and praying that people would show up. This meant spending money on flights, hotels, transportation and meals. This traditional type of [...]

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October is a great month for marketing horror books!

Just like Christmas is a wonderful time for children’s book authors to market their Christmas picture books, Halloween is the perfect time for horror authors. There are many events you can plan ahead of time to sell books during the spooky month of October. For instance, you may do book signings at normal bookstores, or, [...]

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Interview with Dorothy Thompson, author, publicist and relationship expert.

Welcome to The Dark Phantom Review, Dorothy. It’s a pleasure to have you here. As I can see, you have many hats. Why don’t you start by putting on your publicist hat and telling our readers what a publicist can do for an author that the author cannot do himself?
Hi, Mayra, and thanks for asking [...]

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From Book to Bestseller, by Penny Sansevieri

From Book to Bestseller
By Penny Sansevieri
Morgan James Publishing
www.morganjamespublishing.com
ISBN: 1600370853
Copyright 2006
Paperback, 354 pages, $12.21
Non-fiction/Marketing
From [...]

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The Ghost Mirror, by Jamieson Wolf

The Ghost Mirror
by Jamieson Wolf
www.etreasurespublishing.com
Copyright 2007
Ebook/Paperback
YA/Dark Fantasy
Thirteen-year old Mave is no ordinary girl. For one thing, she happens to be a black-eyed, redheaded powerful witch, so much so that even her own parents fear her. Not understanding her powers, her mom and dad have chosen to ignore and neglect her to the point of emotional [...]

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