Are you ready to promote your own book? Do you know what the entails? Author David Wilkinson talks about what he has done, and won't do (chicken suit anyone?) and how he hopes to continue to make his sales rise.

Young adult author Deborah Davis shares book marketing strategies she applies when promoting her own novels. She describes places she visits and offers ideas for how to build awareness among readers. Click here to play this audio clip

Author JL Doty explains how important it is to finish one book before you start another. Staying focused on your current project will help you deal with the pressure to succeed and makes each story stronger in the long run. Click here to play this audio...

Christina Hoag won a prize for writing interesting stories when she was six years old and that’s what she’s been doing ever since. She is the author of the novels Girl on the Brink , (Fire and Ice YA, 2016), named 2016 Best of YA by Suspense Magazine...

For your book to be successful you need to market it continuously. It is vital for you to present your book to the public as well as you can. One place the public looks for books is the public library. But how can a self-published author get his work...

When you pick up a book, turn it over, and decide whether or not to open it up, how do you make that decision? For most readers, that little blurb on the back tells us whether or not the book might transport us to a world we want to explore. Are these...

In midst of devising your literary masterpiece you find yourself unable to keep track of the ever-more complex action. What is a writer to do? What practical tools do other writers use to track their story's main plot, sub plots, and time lines? Unfortunately...

The sheer volume of information an active author will collect when developing story after story can easily become overwhelming. Here are some ways to better organize your research materials. One absolute necessity is to keep both a hard copy and a...

To make your book discoverable on platforms such as Amazon, it's important to understand how these search engines work. Take advantage of Amazon's highly specific categorization to improve your rankings, says book marketing expert and author Desiree...