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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 LK Gardner-Griffie on August 5, 2010
It is nice to be able to celebrate the good news of a friend, and I am very happy to say that we have reason to celebrate. The landscape of publishing is changing, in particular with the advent of the ebook, and self-publishing is increasingly becoming a viable option, and one which is beginning to grow legs as a door opener for other opportunities, as Boyd Morrison proved with his book The Ark, as was discussed in previous post Who Needs a Publisher Anyway?
Posted in Kindle, Linda Welch, LK Gardner-Griffie, Success Stories | Tagged agency, along came a demon, amazon, Kindle, Linda Welch, Robert Gottlieb, The Demon Hunters, Trident Media Group, Whisperings |
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 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 |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 27, 2010
The 2010 winners of the ABNA (Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award) have been announced.
Congrats go out to Patrica McArdle whose novel, Farishta, takes home the General Fiction award.
And Amy Ackley’s book, Sign Language, snagged the Young Adult Fiction win.
Posted in Announcements, CreateSpace, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged abna, amazon abna, amazon breakthrough novel award |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 26, 2010
CreateSpace, the “technology sponsor” of Amazon’s ABNA (Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award) Contest, has announced this year’s finalists:
Posted in Announcements, CreateSpace, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged 2010 abna finalists, abna, abna amazon, abna finalists, amazon breakthrough novel award, breakthrough novel award |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 24, 2010
In March 2009, I began writing an article for LLBR about how to market your book on Amazon. The result of that article turned into a longer project that I decided to publish as a small book. Taking advantage of Lulu’s free ISBN at the time, I released it as a 93 page guide that included my POD Diary which I wrote throughout the first year of marketing my book, Stealing Wishes.
Posted in Announcements, Educational, Kindle, Lulu, Marketing, POD Diary, Promotions, Sales, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book marketing, lulu pocket guide, marketing and selling, marketing on amazon, POD book, pod guide, pod pocket guide, print on demand amazon, print on demand book, print on demand guide, selling on amazon |
By Shannon Yarbrough on December 30, 2009
2009 was a great year for LLBR. We started off by adding Dan Marvin to our review team. We celebrated our one year anniversary. We changed the look and name of our blog. We broadened our short list to include a handful of other POD companies outside of Lulu. Then, we threw the short list out the window and opened ourselves up to all POD books! Oh yeah, and we reviewed 77 titles this year too, not counting Julie’s Quick Picks.
Posted in Announcements, Book Synthesis, Formatting, Shannon Yarbrough |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on December 22, 2009
It is always wonderful when we hear of someone who has been reviewed on the LL Book Review having some success, either through sales or critical acclaim. Today it is Linda Welch’s turn.
Posted in Linda Welch, Success Stories | Tagged Alien Romances, along came a demon, blog post, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Linda Welch, The Demon Hunters, Whisperings |
By Shannon Yarbrough on December 13, 2009
While I lean more toward surfing GoodReads, Facebook, Twitter, and my fellow reviewer’s sites on a regular basis more than all the other Creative Writing sites that have popped up recently, WEBook is one that I did sign up for this year but haven’t taken full advantage of due to lack of time and interest. However, this site did launch an interesting program recently called Agent InBox.
Posted in Getting Published, Opinions, Rejections, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged agent inbox, agentinbox, book agent, book query, literary agent, query agent, webook |
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