Book Marketing Roundup

Authors, what is your biggest challenge in promoting your book? How can The Savvy Book Marketer help? Take this quick survey and enter to win some free book marketing guides!

The virtual book tour for my newest book, Virtual Book Tour Magic, continues this week. Remember, if you order the book by December 12 you'll get an invitation to an exclusive book tour Q&A session with me on December 15.

Here are some resources for authors:

• Nonfiction authors should enjoy this article from Arielle Ford in the Huffington Post: How Authors Make Real Money (Hint: It's Not From Books).

• Here's a interesting post for novelists: Why Fiction Magazines Are An Untapped Goldmine For New Authors by Doug Lance.

• If you're a children's book author, I recommend this article: How Will We Read Children's Books in the Future?

• Last week I launched my newly re-designed newsletter. If you're not already a subscriber, click here for a sneak peek at the newsletter, and when you subscribe you'll get three free ebooks packed with book marketing tips.

• Coming up on December 19, I'm thrilled to be hosting one of my favorite marketing experts, Kathleen Gage, for a complimentary webinar: Who Else Wants to be a Kindle #1 Bestseller. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a highly successful author and online marketer. (If you already registered for this event, please note the change of date from December 13 to December 19.)

• And on December 15, Kathleen Gage is presenting another complimentary webinar that will be of special interest to nonfiction authors: How to Build a Six Figure Business from The Ground Up.

That's all the news for now. Here's to your book publishing success!

Comments

[Chris Phillips]

What an interesting article. I just wonder how the future will change on written material. My own view is that there is an unstopable trend to popular ebooks in the many formats available!

[Dana Lynn Smith]

Thanks Chris - I agree that ebooks will continue to rise in popularity, and the color tablets offer interesting opportunities new formats.