8 Sources of Market Info

Sell your novel! AND Your Other Writing
Where do you get marketing info that helps you decide when and where to submit?

General Market books. The Writer’s Digest market books are the best known and have a reputation for delivering up-to-date information.

Writer’s Market Deluxe 2010

4 Tips on Promoting to Educators

Put your Book in Educator’s Classrooms
A friend and I recently sat down with two librarians to talk about what they like to hear in presentations. Their needs were different: one teaches in an elementary school and one in a high school. Yet, they agreed on several things. Educators are one market for most authors of [...]

Should Authors Market with Social Media?

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series 9 Ways to Plot a Novel
4 Perspectives on Authors and Social Media
Here’s a range of answers:

Yes. Social media experts say that your online presence can help with website traffic, engagement with readers,

How Many Reviews

How many book reviews should you expect for your book? Not many, it seems. Publisher’s Marketplace Lunch Deluxe reports in today’s newsletter that the top books receive

Genres

What Genre Should you Write?
I was talking to a friend about a new novel he’s working on. He’s not sure what genre it falls under and what genre he should aim for. Of course, there are two answers to this:
Just write. One way of looking at it is that he just needs to write [...]

book trailer criteria

Memoir of a Successful Book Trailer in Six Words
by guest Lisa Gottfried of DigitalWeavers.com
NOTE: Lisa did the editing for my retreat video. She spoke at the San Rafael conference and I was interested enough to try her services, for which I paid. This is an invited guest post and she speaks here as a professional [...]

big v. small

Big v. small publishers
I’ve been looking for new markets for my work and paying attention to smaller publishers while I”m at it. With so many imprints consolidated under one umbrella, it’s harder than ever to find appropriate markets.

Book Trailers

I’ve followed the book trailer phenomenon for a couple years and wanted to do a post. In 2003, it was just beginning; in 2006, there was lots of experimenting; in 2009, it seems here to stay and writers should take it as a given that they need a book trailer for trade books. Here’s some [...]

Test Submissions

Submit, Then Revise
At our spring conference, Jen Rofe, literary agent at Andrea Brown Literary spoke about sending out manuscripts.
The one thing that surprised me was her attitude toward submission and revision. Rofe said she usually sends out a mss to about five editors. Then, depending on the feedback, she’ll often ask the writer to [...]

Publicity tips

Publicity: Top 5 Things Every Author Should Do When a New Book Comes Out
This guest post is by Barbara Fisch & Sarah Shealy, Co-owners, Blue Slip Media, a children’s book publicity and marketing agency www.BlueSlipMedia.com

Current Contact List. Publicists at the major publishing houses are overworked and underpaid–they will welcome anything you can do to [...]