Write a Great Book

Book Marketing Resources

My book coaching clients always ask about the best resources to learn about marketing their books. Here are my favorite books about how to market books.

(Note: if you buy the book directly from author Shel Horowitz, you’ll get some great bonuses! Tell Shel I sent you.)

Be sure to check out John Kremer’s excellent site as well.

Buy these books. Put one on your desk or nightstand and read a few pages every day. Pick one action item to implement every day.

Now get back to writing that book!

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Celebrate Great Books Week!

Great books have a powerful influence on our lives.

Check out the Great Books Week Blog Tour for readers’ stories of how books have affected their lives.

As a writer, how do you hope to impact your readers? Do you write to inform, instruct, inspire, educate, entertain, encourage, motivate, or some mixture of these reasons?

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What makes a good novel?

Just read an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal: “Good Novels Don’t Have to Be Hard.”

Lev Grossman says the key to the 21st-century novel is “the ongoing exoneration and rehabilitation of plot.” He spends a good bit of time slamming the early 20th-century Modernists for being too difficult to understand.

Does it really have to be an either/or choice between the challenging Modernist novel and the easy-to-read plot-driven novel?

I think there’s a place for both. That’s why both Faulkner and Grisham have a place on my shelves.

Take a look at the article and let me know what you think.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574377163804387216.html

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Judging a Book by Its Cover

“Don’t judge a book by its cover.”

We hear it all the time. But the fact is that books ARE judged by their covers. A cover can make or break a book’s sales–regardless of the content. (As a content specialist, it’s hard for me to admit that . . . but it’s true.)

Check out Jacqueline Church Simonds’ autopsy of a book cover:

http://smallpressworld.com/blog/?p=166

Very informative!

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