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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]