This Month’s AuthorTree Spotlight Winner: Author Kathi Macias

Justin here, and today we’re posting the winner of the third monthly AuthorTree Online Spotlight Competition. Now, please join me in congratulating Kathi Macias, this month’s featured AuthorTree author.   What’s the Author Spotlight Competition? The Author Spotlight Competition is a monthly opportunity for authors with free AuthorTree Web pages to feature their site and [...]

Promoting Your Literary Event: How Evite.com Can Help Create Book Buzz

Hosting a book signing at your local bookstore? Have a literary reading next month and want all your friends to attend? A radio station interviewing you about your book, and want your audience to listen? Have no fear, Evite.com is here.   You may have used Evite.com before for sending wedding invitations or your holiday [...]

What Authors Want? Redesign Could Mean Better Opportunities for Authors

Call all authors! AuthorTree wants you!   Have you built your free author Web site with AuthorTree already? Or are you an emerging writer looking to market your book online? Then, post a comment describing what you would like changed or adapted within our author pages for contemporary book marketing on the Internet.   Building [...]

July’s Online Book Marketing Resources: AuthorTree Selections for Authors

Doubting Thomas announces…   …AuthorTreeHouse’s July Online Marketing Resource Winners!   After searching the Internet for book marketing sites and reviewing the monthly submissions to our Web Resource Competition, the AuthorTreeHouse bloggers have finally made their selections.   WordHustler WordHustler is the collaborative brainchild of John L. Singleton and Anne Walls: two writers, dreamers, and cultural insurgents. They’re [...]

Don’t Just Stand There: Why Actively Engaging Your Social Networks Is Important?

Everyone’s a member of at least one social network these days. If not Myspace, then Facebook. If not Facebook, then Friendster or Shelfari or Squidoo or BuzzNet … or one of the many other million online communities where people interact regularly.   Which makes this digital ground all the more fertile for your book marketing [...]

Video Killed the Radio Star: Promoting Your Book on the Airwaves

With the advent of podcasts and book trailers, radio interviews and plugs can seem like antiquated marketing techniques. These days, why listen to the radio littered with commercials and music you don’t want to hear when you can easily pop in a CD or press play on your iPod?   It’s true – radio exposure [...]

Hustle and Flow: Eliminating the Hassle of Handling Submissions

Greetings all, this is Tasheena, posting here at AuthorTreeHouse on a completley integrated submission solution for managing manuscripts of any length or genre.   Are you sick of spending more time and money shipping your manuscripts to be considered for publication then you actually spend writing? Do you need your own personal assistant to handle [...]

Profit Prophecies: Preparing & Predicting Your Future Royalties

Unfortunately, there aren’t any fortunetellers or crystal balls that can accurately predict the success of your book in the publishing marketplace, which can make your publishing decision all the scarier.   No author wants to gamble with their writing career, nor invent a large budget in promotional campaigns that may or may not work. Not [...]