Difference Between BetaReaders and ARC Readers: What You Need To Know by @MelissaFlicks

Difference Between BetaReaders and ARC Readers: What You Need To Know by @MelissaFlicks via @BadRedheadMedia, writers, readers

Please welcome Melissa Flicks, my cohost for #BookMarketingChat, author assistant extraordinaire, and general whirlwind. Melissa explains the difference between betareaders and ARC readers, and why it’s important writers know the difference.  During our latest #BookMarketingChat, we briefly touched on the topic of betareaders and ARC readers. Since we didn’t have time to discuss them in detail…

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Don’t Make These 5 mistakes When Querying Agents and Publishers w/ @EvatopiaLit

Don't Make These 5 mistakes When Querying Agents and Publishers, Margery Walshaw, Evatopia Press, Rachel Thompson

Please welcome guest author, Margery Walshaw, founder of Evatopia, Inc., a multi-media company with divisions supporting literary management, publishing, and marketing. Clients range from individuals to major publishing firms. As Principal of Evatopia, Margery has served as an editor and publicist to novelists who are published by Berkley, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin’s Press, and Scholastic.…

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Which is right for you? A Quick Guide to KDP vs. KDP Select

The final post in our Amazon series has us looking at KDP vs. KDP Select. After our longer posts, this post is short and sweet because it is pretty straightforward. Any author can publish their book under KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). This is the basic Kindle publishing tool. This tool allows authors to upload their…

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How Do I Get Local Bookstores to Carry My Books? by @nblackburn01

Camela Cami Thompson asked,[share ] “How do I get a bookstore to carry my books?”[/share] Excellent question, Camela! Unfortunately, there is no easy answer. I frequently hear authors complain that independent bookstores won’t carry their books for personal reasons, or because there is a dislike or disdain for independently published books. While this could be…

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What’s A Publishing Imprint And How Did I Get One?

So here I was, all excited that Broken Places finally, finally released (yay!), and I’m in the down and dirty trenches of doing the marketing and setting up the blog tour and connecting with folks on social and blah blah boring stuff you’re already falling asleep, when I get an out of the blue message…

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