Best Author Websites

The best author websites are the ones that sell books online. In order to sell books online, an author’s website MUST be able to be indexed in the search engines. When a website is properly indexed, it can be found by the millions of people searching the web each day. I had a client who chose to publish her book through... 

How Many Copies Must an Author Sell in Order to be Considered Successful

Selling books is hard… I don’t care if you’re Simon and Schuster or a self published POD author. The competition to sell books is FIERCE. With this in mind, many authors have an unrealistic expectation of “success”. One way to rephrase this question is “How many books will I have to sell to break... 

Writing and Selling Books

Notice the title of this post… writing AND selling books. For many authors, writing books is the easy part, it’s the selling books that is hard! However, if you want to support yourself with your writing, then selling books is an important part of the equation. Deborah Greenspan of Llumina Publishing writes in Tips on... 

Blogs for Authors: Marketing Your Book

It’s my experience that most authors don’t have any idea of how much “marketing” goes on behind the scenes for a typical book. Marketing your book can either be the most frustrating or the most fulfilling task you’ve ever tackled. One of the things about marketing is it’s an ongoing process. If... 

Book Marketing and Authenticity

Book marketing and authenticity… kind of has an “oxymoron” ring to it, doesn’t it? However, in the world of Web 2.0 where social networks are king, those two words are being forced into use within a single cohesive sentence. This isn’t the book marketing your parents knew. Kassia Krozser writes in the... 

Shawn Graham is an Author and Career Consultant

Shawn Graham is the author of Courting Your Career: Match Yourself With the Perfect Job Shawn is using a Wordpress.com blog as his marketing home base and doing a nice job of writing relevant posts which are RICH with information his book’s potential readers will be searching for on the web.  He’s also got an Amazon... 

Blogs for Authors: Marketing Your Book

It’s my experience that most authors don’t have any idea of how much “marketing” goes on behind the scenes... 

Web Site Statistics As A Key to Book Marketing

I’m going to begin this post with a bit of information you may find startling. The web does not operate fairly. (Mock gasp) ...