AuthorTreeHouse Blog Suspended Until January 6, 2008

Greetings all, Please be advised that the AuthorTreeHouse Blog will suspend posting until after the coming holiday weeks, but rest assured, we will resume normal operations effective January 6, 2009. Should you have questions about AuthorTree or suggestions for future blogs, don’t hesitate to pitch your idea within a comment, and our blogging team will [...]

Meet Words of Belief Holiday Writing Contest Winners: Interviews with Grand Prize Winner and Editor’s Selection

Now, you can meet the winners of the Words of Belief Holiday Story Writing Contest. Attracting such a diversity of voices and range of topics submitted to their first annual writing contest, their publishing team wanted to share the thoughts and emotions of the writers behind the two selected winners. Read about their experience submitting, [...]

This Month’s AuthorTree Spotlight Winner: Author Gary Greenfield

Justin here, and today we’re posting the winner of the fifth AuthorTree Online Spotlight Competition. Now, please join me in congratulating Gary Greenfield, 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 various site and books. [...]

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

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: Book Glutton SmashWords NaNoWriMo Rainbow Authors BNStudios Book Glutton: A better way to read online, Book Glutton’s mission is to offer book that are different, engaging, intelligent and digital. [...]

NaNoWriMo.org Week One: Novelists Begin 30-Day Book Writing Journey

Emerging writers from across the world have accepted the National Novel Writing Month Challenge, and they’re already on day four of what could become the first step in a lengthy writing career. What is NaNoWriMo.org? NaNoWriMo.org is an innovative, yet fun approach to novel writing. Anyone can register for free, and join the thousands of [...]

Behind the Scenes at Vintage and Anchor Books: Vice President and Art Director John Gall Discusses Cover Design

Helping publish at least 200 traditionally-published books per year, John Gall is Vice President and Art Director for Vintage and Anchor Books, an imprint of Alfred A Knopf, which is a publishing group within Random House, owned by Bertlesmann Corporation. Lucky for us that Barnes & Noble decided to film a brief cover story about [...]

Tap into Pop Culture: Be Cool & Kooky When Promoting Your Book

Promoting a book isn’t easy. Not only do authors need to invest in a marketing plan specific to their location and audience, but they also have to be inventive and imaginative with their strategies.   Of course new authors want to sell books and make some extra cash, and yes, the traditional methods of hosting [...]

Behind the Scenes: Chip Kidd Discusses New Releases & Book Design

Recorded at the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival in Seattle, The Sound of Young America recently posted an interview with the infamous Chip Kidd, an accomplished designer who has created book cover for authors like Michael Crichton, David Sedaris, Cormac McCarthy and innumerable others for more than 20 years.   Listen to Kidd discuss his [...]

This Month’s AuthorTree Spotlight Winner: Author Daniel Chamberlayne

Justin here, and today we’re posting the winner of the fourth AuthorTree Online Spotlight Competition. Now, please join me in congratulating Daniel Chamberlayne, 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 [...]

Words of Belief Launches Holiday Story Writing Contest: Fiction & Nonfiction Submissions

Author Solutions Inc. recently launch a Christian self-publishing imprint named Words of Belief, which opened its first annual holiday story writing contest on Monday, October 6, 2008.   Writers can submit up to three entries of both fiction and nonfiction for free. The only requirement is that you register with Words of Belief (which literally [...]

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

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.   BookWire LitMinds SiteHoppin NewPages YouPublish   BookWire BookWire® … for Book Lovers! Welcome to BookWire®, the internet resource dedicated to new titles, new authors, and the general scoop [...]

Vlog It: Software for Vloggers Getting Started

What’s a vlog? Video blogging, sometimes shortened to vlogging is a form of blogging that utilizes video primarily instead of text. Like a blog, entries are made consistently, but often force on embedded videos or video links, with slim supplemental text and images for support.   Video logs (vlogs) take advantage of web syndication to [...]

Keeping a Coollist, Checking It Twice: Easily Manage Your E-mail Announcements for Free

Introducing Coollist, the online solution for easily managing and promptly sending your mailing list your author updates, publishing news and event announcements.   Essentially, Coollist is a web-based system for anyone to easily create free mailing lists, which helps your friends, fans and community communicate and share ideas quickly via e-mail. Easy to use and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]