Publishing a book is like running a business, and like any business, one of your primary goals is to generate revenue. Whether you’re traditionally or indie published, and whether your book was published one year ago or ten, you’ll need to do some marketing to get people’s … [Read more...]
10 Simple Marketing Tools Every Author Should Know About
Marketing books online can be a time-consuming task for authors and publishers alike, especially these days when there’s so much noise online. Not only do you need to break through the clutter, but you need to make sense of it yourself so you can keep up with the latest … [Read more...]
9 Ways Publishers Can Build Active Author Communities
An author’s career is fraught with emotional ups and downs, but the author community is a hugely supportive bunch. Indie authors often band together by participating in forums, forming writing groups, cross-promoting each other’s work, or even collaborating on multi-author … [Read more...]
How I Sold 130x More Books with a BookBub & Countdown Promo
As a bestselling suspense author who has been indie published since 2003, I’ve learned being flexible and adapting to change is key to being successful in this industry. I only sold 26 copies of my standalone thriller Submerged across Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk during … [Read more...]
Recap: BookBub’s First Live Q&A
When we first announced on the KBoards Writers’ Cafe that we were going to host a live online Q&A, authors seemed pretty enthusiastic — though some worried that the traffic would overwhelm the whole KBoards site! 445 posts and over 12,000 views later, we thankfully … [Read more...]
BookBub’s First Live Q&A
Join us this week for a live question and answer session in the KBoards Writers’ Cafe! On February 3rd and 4th (tomorrow and Wednesday) from 10am-5pm EST, members of the BookBub Partners team will be chatting with the KBoards author community about all things … [Read more...]
BookBub Launches in Canada
Just a few months after our expansion to the UK, we’ve added another region to our growing list of options for subscribers and partners: Canada! With more than 150,000 local subscribers after just a few weeks, the Canadian edition of BookBub has already proven very … [Read more...]
7 Tips for Creating a Successful Book Cover
Whether you like it or not, your cover is the face of your book, and you will be judged by it. You’ve put a great deal of work and thought into your book, and your cover should reflect that effort. After all of your planning, plotting, and editing is done, the last thing you … [Read more...]
Should You Self-Publish? 5 Questions to Ask Before Taking the Plunge
A quote from one of my books, which is always popping up somewhere on the Internet, turned out to be great advice for my own career: “If Plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters (204 if you’re in Japan!).” I wrote my first novel in my minivan in the parking … [Read more...]
6 Tips for Social Media Success for Authors
These days, it seems that everyone’s busy crafting his or her next witty Tweet, spending hours creating the perfect Pinterest board, or selecting the right filter for an Instagram post. With so many social media platforms at your disposable, having an active online … [Read more...]
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