Free Color Book & Calendar Designing Online: Gifts for Christmas & Special Events

Tis the season of holiday cheer and bargain shopping for loved ones, of course. That’s the reason Inkubook.com allows everyone an absolutely ingenious way to design quality color books and capture Christmas memories with your very own pictures, from the comfort of your own home computer. Seriously, registration is free — they never ask for [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

LitMinds: A Community for Readers, Authors and Indie Bookstores

What LitMinds Means to AuthorTree??? Here’s a community that not only allows authors to register their book information for free, but also connect with other writers and local bookstores for possible literary events. It’s an amazing network whether you’re just a reader browsing for a book, or you’re a bookstore owner looking to draw more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Release Me At Once: Smart Planning When Timing Your Book Release

A book’s release is a huge opportunity to both celebrate its publication and promote its content. Having an interesting and popularized release party planned ahead of time can generate massive pre-orders as well as future buzz. And should a similar story turn into a hot topic on the news or radio, you might be able [...]

Something for Nothing: The Marketing Benefit of Free Book Giveaways

Professor Willard Wisely says…   Salutations, book promotion ruffians, and welcome again to AuthorTreeHouse, home of AuthorTree’s marketing masterminds.   Marketing your book on the Internet can sometime be a difficult process, but there are a number of promotional campaigns you may consider running on your Web site or blog that can make a world [...]