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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ten Blogs Authors Should Know: Publishing News & Professional Book Marketing Strategies

Professor Willard Wisely says…   Salutations, book promotion ruffians, and welcome again to AuthorTreeHouse, home of AuthorTree’s marketing masterminds.   As you already know, keeping with the latest publishing announcements and Internet book marketing software can be difficult. In order to relieve some of the burden from your shoulders, our bloggers compiled the below list [...]

Being Your Own Worst Critic: Listening to the Book Marketing Devil on Your Shoulder

Say you’ve just finished publishing your book, now what?   Really, it doesn’t matter whether you publish with Random House or Wordclay. What matters is the promotional strategy you’re going to employ in order to successfully market your book. That is, of course, if you want to spread the word about your new publication and [...]

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 [...]

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

Professor Willard Wisely announces…   …AuthorTreeHouse’s Online Marketing Resource Winners!   Salutations, book promotion ruffians, and welcome again to AuthorTreeHouse, home of AuthorTree’s marketing masterminds.   Whew! So many choices, so little time… Choosing only five book marketing resources for this month’s AuthorTreeHouse’s online real estate was difficult to say the least, but after a [...]

Introducing AuthorTreeHouse: The Book Marketing Blog Sponsored by AuthorTree

The History of AuthorTreeHouse An elite fighting squad of publishing marketers and chatty birds have finally set aside their differences and joined forces to form an unstoppable hurricane force of author and book promotion, the likes of which has never been seen before. Stationed in Bloomington, Indiana, we’ve made headquarters in a tree house, one [...]