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By Shannon Yarbrough on August 22, 2010
Calling all authors! Tell us why we should read your book, by writing a review of your own book!
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By Shannon Yarbrough on August 21, 2010
I love a success story. With over 4,000 reviews on Amazon.com, over 80 weeks at #1 on the NYT Bestsellers List for Trade Paperback fiction, and well over 1 million copies in print, I’d say The Shack by William Young is indeed successful. Young wrote the book as a Christmas gift for his six children and had no intention of ever publishing it. But after being persuaded by friends who read it, Young worked with several colleagues to polish the work for publication.
Posted in Fiction, Mainstream/Nostalgia | Tagged the shack, william paul young, windblown media |
By Shannon Yarbrough on August 14, 2010
One glimpse at the title of Sunni Morris’s book and you probably conjure up visions of Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster living in her old mansion, penned by Charles Dickens back in 1861, wondering around in her old wedding dress and “looking like the witch of the place.”
Posted in Horror/Supernatural, Mystery/Suspense, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged ghost, ghost family, ghost story, haunted mansion, haversham hill, new england mansion, sunni morris, witch |
By Shannon Yarbrough on August 9, 2010
I’ve always been a cheerleader for investing in copies of your own book for various reasons. This always becomes part of the great debate of how much money an author should invest in their book to make it successful. Remember, if you are a self-published author, you wear many hats: writer, editor, publisher, and marketer. Before considering self-publishing, you should consider how much money you are willing to spend on marketing your project.
Posted in Marketing, Sales, Shannon Yarbrough, Success Stories | Tagged book marketing, donate your book, market your book, top places to market my book, top places your book should be, where to market your book |
By Shannon Yarbrough on August 7, 2010
I came across David Stone’s book, The Garden of What Was and Was Not, on a random Amazon.com search one day. I was immediately captured by the title and after reading the product description I decided to contact the author to see if he was willing to send a copy for me to review. Mr. Stone gladly agreed and I had a copy of the book in the mail in just a few weeks. I think what caught my curiosity the most was the subtitle: The Autobiography of X. I immediately considered Malcolm X, but the cover of the book doesn’t indicate that this book might be about him, and indeed it’s far from it. The Garden of What Was and Was Not is actually a fictional autobiography of a man named Peter McCarthy, as if he is telling his life story to the author. It begins in the 60s, but don’t think this is a nostalgic walk down memory lane for a baby boomer reminiscing about the Beatles, Vietnam, Elvis, drugs, peace, and all the hippie culture that today’s generation is left only to read about in the back of their history books.
Posted in Experimental/Narrative, Mainstream/Nostalgia, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged baby boomer book, coming of age novel, david stone, my generation, the garden of what was and was not |
By Shannon Yarbrough on August 2, 2010
Check out this article by Isia Jasiewicz from The Books Issue of Newsweek (first posted only July 30th, 2010): Boyd Morrison was finishing a Ph.D. in industrial engineering when he wrote his first novel. Five agents rejected it. Nine years later he tried again, and this time he did get an agent—after nearly three years [...]
Posted in E-publishing, Getting Published, Kindle, Sales, Shannon Yarbrough, Success Stories | Tagged amazon kindle, bob young, boyd morrison, E-publishing, isia jasiewicz, j.a. konrath, john edgar wideman, kindle publishing, Lulu, philadelphia fire, the ark, whiskey sour book, who needs a publisher anyway |
By Shannon Yarbrough on July 24, 2010
As the market and competition starts to catch up with Amazon.com’s Kindle, it’s no surprise to see that they expanded their E-book availability beyond the Kindle device and also lowered the cost of the devices themselves .
Posted in E-publishing, Kindle, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon dtp, amazon kindle, amazon.com, kindle author, kindle device, kindle ereader, kindle for pc, kindle royalty, publish to kindle |
By Shannon Yarbrough on July 23, 2010
Give Mark Zero Some…
…and by some, I mean a round of applause for another superb book. Give the Drummer Some is a semi-salute to music in St. Louis, often upstaged by its neighboring musical towns further down the Mississippi.
Posted in Mainstream/Nostalgia, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged east st. louis book, giant publishing, give the drummer some, mark zero, soulard music, st. louis book, st. louis music |
By Shannon Yarbrough on July 21, 2010
Here’s an interesting email that landed in some Lulu’ers box last night. If you were having trouble finding your book in Lulu’s Search Option, apparently they were under attack by Gremlins but have now got it all sorted out. I have no idea what the 25% off at the top means, when they later say they’ll be sending you a 15% off special in a few days. Oh, and is it just me or does Lulu suggest you forward the special email to a bunch of people who drink. Why not nurse maids, dog groomers, and trash collectors? Just saying.
Posted in Announcements, Lulu, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged Lulu, lulu gremlins, lulu problems, lulu.com, lulu.com gremlins, lulu.com problems |
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