Angry Villagers Burn Books: E-book Zealots Versus Sentimental Booklovers

Earlier this week, Computerworld Blog posted an article entitled “Clueless book publishers miss huge opportunity,” which adamantly predicts that the growing convenience of e-books and development of e-reader technology like Kindle and the Sony Reader will soon render physical books obsolete. Undoubtedly, e-books and e-readers have opened new areas of publishing and marketing for all [...]

Words of Belief Announces Winners of Holiday Story Writing Contest

Back from the holiday week with a bang, Words of Belief has selected its winners and finalists for the Holiday Story Writing Contest they hosted in the previous months. Out of hundreds of submissions their judges received, only 15 were pulled for publication in their coming anthology, Tis the Season: Selected Stories of Contemporary Fiction [...]

Creating & Promoting Audio Books: Voices.com & Voice123

It’s no secret that audio books are a thriving business for authors, and if you’re already publishing a book, why not look into having a voice over talent record your manuscript for audio publication? Think about it. Millions of people listen to podcasts and books on their morning commutes and even in their offices as [...]

Submit Your Writing Contest: AuthorTreeHouse Launches Writing Contest Database & Calendar

Let the AuthorTreeHouse marketing staff investigate writing contests for potential benefits, prizes and deadlines. Now, by simply submitting the Contest name and the URL here, our team will do the legwork for you.   Writing scams infecting the Internet have turned writers skeptical of most contests, but with our new contest database and calendar, we [...]

BookWire: The Book Industry Resource

There’s a new publishing sheriff in town, and it’s name is BookWire… For those of you who don’t know BookWire, this marketing bird encourages all to check them out. At BookWire, Writers and authors can find: Videos Booksellers Libraries Agents Editors Interviews Publishers and much more… Visit BookWire.com for bookreviews, author resources, press releases, featured [...]

Promoting Before You Publish: Finding & Submitting to Literary Magazines

Of course, you want the release of your book to be met with critical success. You want readers excited about your work, and you want them to order your title (perhaps even preorder) as soon as it’s available.   Unfortunately, there’s no magic fairy that can alert everyone about your publication. What is available to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.   Common Craft Their videos are short, simple and focused on making complex ideas easy to understand. Common Craft [...]

The Untold Story: Do Press Releases Really Work?

Have no fear, Doubting Thomas is on the case, which means we’ll finally answer your questions about press releases and contacting the media about author interviews once and for all.   Rumors have been circulating for years that press releases are a waste of money, that they don’t really work, that editors either trash them [...]

Contacting a Publishing Agent: Why? What? How? When? Who?

Have no fear, Doubting Thomas is on the case, which means we’ll finally answer your questions about contacting agents with your book queries once and for all.   Here’s the bottom line: there are people who prefer the royalty advantages and book design control of self-publishing, and there are those who prefer to take their [...]

Got Any Bright Ideas? AuthorTree Wants Your Web Site Criticism, Feedback & Suggestions

Have no fear, Doubting Thomas is on the case, which means we’ll get to the bottom of the AuthorTree suggestions or redesign, additions and information once and for all. Here’s your opportunity to unleash your constructive criticism of the AuthorTree page, the free author Web sites as well as AuthorTreeHouse. Any Internet suggestion, any marketing [...]

Come’on, Free Author Web Sites and Book Marketing Advice? Seriously?

Have no fear, Doubting Thomas is on the case, which means we’ll get to the bottom of AuthorTreeHouse once and for all.    Sure, you can visit AuthorTree and poke around the site; you can climb to AuthorTreeHouse, scan the “About” sections, read the author spotlight competition submission guidelines on the tree trunk (sidebar), but that [...]