Adios, pero not Goodbye!

WG2E is an amazing corner of the web.  It’s very focused, as most good blogs are.  Initially we’d set out to write about the eBook world, something I was just learning about. I’m traditionally published with St. Martin’s Minotaur and NAL, so looking at my ebook sales, the changing industry, and the shift in the [...]

How to Present Your Book

Today I just have some tidbits on how to present your books on your website.  We believe in: a professional website professional author picture a high quality jpg of your book ISBN(s) of your book(s) genre series release date reviews of your book(s) a well-written summary with no grammatical errors a press kit twitter/facebook handles [...]

Covers and Cover Quotes/Blurbs and Selling Books

DD, no need to break out your early morning martini glass or Advil.  I’m leaving the pricing discussion alone today (but I will refer y’all to this post which hit home with me, me being an admitted Book Snob, of course: Publishing Perspectives ).  Phew! Instead, I’m talking covers.  There’s a difference between eBook covers and [...]

KOBO and Books on Board Make Reading Interactive

I’ve been working with the KOBO people as Entangled Publishing gets closer to its launch.  It’s been a fascinating experience because I’ve been learning so much about what companies are doing to continue to grow their readerships and bridge the  gap between reading and the APP Population (that is, people connected to social media, particularly [...]

Blending Outreach and Marketing for the best Long Reach in Book Promotion

When I started Books on the House, I had one goal in mind: Create a site that would bring readers to books and would let authors find new readerships for their work. Little did I know that what I was doing was bridging the basic concepts of marketing with outreach. In a little more than [...]