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5 Blunders Guaranteed to Crush Your Publishing Efforts … Part I

Posted on Oct 6 By Judith Briles

Everywhere you turn, there is info via the Internet , on the bookshelf, via videos, and certainly from workshops. Info that tells you want to do with your publishing efforts; what not to do.
You would think that any beginning author would start with a quick search on the Internet to begin their quest–a quest that would identify common snafus and traps that newbie authors fall into. It would certainly reveal a plethora of information—how to do it; …

Author Smarts: Creating Your Copyright Page

Posted on Sep 19 By Judith Briles

One of the most common questions that authors ask is about the Copyright page and “What should my copyright page look like?” Good question, here’s an answer:
The Copyright Page, which follows the title page of your manuscript, is a flexible document with respect to format, but several elements must be included. The most confusing two are the ISBN and LOCN. Detailed instructions for sending for them are included below:

-The copyright symbol,
-Followed by the …

Authors … What’s in Your Vision Wallet?

Posted on Sep 15 By Judith Briles

When someone asks you—anyone—what’s the Vision for your Book, and for you the Author, what do you say? Do you stammer and stutter? Do you feel like you project the “deer in the highlight” gaze? Or are you direct and succinct?

For the visionary founder of Virgin, Richard Branson, he’s been an entrepreneur from the get-go. Virgin was seeded when he was 20 years old—since then; he’s created an empire that includes eight separate billion-dollar companies …

Book Publishing Today … Avoid Preying Publishing Predators

Posted on Sep 1 By Judith Briles

Reading … cooking and eating … movies … some of my favorite things. A day/evening of cooking with a good movie–either at home or on TV sometimes becomes the catalyst for writing ideas. I was ready to love, love, love the book that had them all, and I didn’t.

First of all, I have to tell you . . . I did not like Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, Eat, Pray, Love. Oh, there’s no question that …

Virtual Book Blog Tours – Plan One for Your Book Success

Posted on Jul 25 By Judith Briles

Don’t you love it when authors actually take their own advice? In a blog that was published some time ago, Author U had a special guest featured within our blog. Dana Lynn Smith put together a Virtual Blog Tour for her book, Virtual Book Tour Magic. Let’s revisit the key elements. Virtual Blog Tours are quite common now … don’t bypass it in your book marketing plans.
Here’s why this book makes marketing sense for today’s author:

The author has …

The Amazing Power of Books in Your Presence

Posted on Jul 11 By Judith Briles

When Amazon’s eBook sales, a la Kindle, exceeded its print book sales that we authors and publishers love so well, the “book sky is falling” dooms-dayers and sayers came out of the woodwork.

~ Books have power! ~
The University of Tennessee has been exploring students’ test scores for the past three years. Research led by Richard Allington has found that students who brought “real” books home had significantly higher reading scores than those who didn’t. …

Celebrating the Author and Book Publishing World?

Posted on Jul 4 By Judith Briles

What is independence in publishing? Good question to think about on this 4th of July. As the Author and Publishing Worlds Turn, the words “self” and “independent” have almost become interchangeable. There is a difference, agreed, a fine line at times.

A self-published book can mean almost anything … from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put …

Authors Beware … What You See and Write In Word Is Not What You Get!

Posted on Jun 30 By Judith Briles

After spending several hours with an author who was incredibly frustrated (and most likely PO’d at me for being the messenger) that what she had so carefully structured in her 8 x 11 print out version was most likely NOT going to be the same presentation in the interior design of the finished book.

Here’s the heads up: what you put down, page-by-page in your Word document/pdf may have little to do with what it looks like …

Meet Publishing’s T-Rex …Publishing Predators Put You and Your Book at Risk

Posted on Jun 27 By Judith Briles

What a tangled web they weave … the Publishing Predators are breeding, casting out their nets for naive authors-to-be, those who are looking for a book publishing bargain and don’t realize that they will end up in a boiler plate up sales operation; promising bestseller status and so much more.
It’s author beware, author beware, author beware.
Over the past three years, I’ve worked with several private clients and fielded numerous phone calls/emails from authors who …

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Topic: Self Publish

Enter the Draft to Dream Book Publishing Competition

5 Blunders Guaranteed to Crush Your Publishing Efforts … Part I

Author Smarts: Creating Your Copyright Page

Book Publishing Today … Avoid Preying Publishing Predators

The Amazing Power of Books in Your Presence

Celebrating the Author and Book Publishing World?

Authors Beware … What You See and Write In Word Is Not What You Get!

Meet Publishing’s T-Rex …Publishing Predators Put You and Your Book at Risk

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