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 [...]

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. [...]

Raising the Bar: Five Self-Published Books that Became National Bestsellers

Greetings all, this is Tasheena, posting here at AuthorTreeHouse on five titles that made it big following their self-published debut.   According to The New York Times, “81% of Americans feel that they have a book in them…and should write it.” With traditional publishers, rejecting the majority of manuscripts they receive, it’s no wonder self-publishing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]