Posts Tagged “marketing”

5 Tips for Taking a Good Author Photo

By | July 7, 2011

As soon as you start publishing your first ebook, you’re going to need a good author photo. Not just a small, pixelated picture of yourself at a party somewhere, but something you can use in forum profiles, Amazon author pages, Goodreads, Facebook fan pages, Google+ and everywhere else. You don’t absolutely need an author photo. […]

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10 Publishing Blogs That Are Worth Reading for Ebook Authors

By | July 4, 2011

There’s a ton of publishing blogs out there. Blogs by authors, editors, agents, interns, and most of all, writers. I have read a lot of them, and certainly didn’t find all of them useful, entertaining or interesting. Also, there’s a lot of endless repetition of traditional publishing information: how to write a query letter, how […]

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How JK Rowling and Pottermore Can Help You Sell Ebooks

By | July 1, 2011

It’s been all over the web: JK Rowling will release ebooks of all the Harry Potter books exclusively through her new website Pottermore. It’s a very smart and bold move on her part, and I think there’s a lot of good ideas here that can work for other authors. Yes, even authors who aren’t multimillionaires […]

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