[Note #1: So I’m thinking about giving away a free product for you . . . IF you’re potentially interested in learning how to promote and sell your book online. It’s going to take some significant time to put together. But before I go crazy making this thing, I want to make sure you actually ...…
Note: In case you’re wondering, this post is a followup to this (which received a bucketful of comments). I respond to each and every comment, BTW]. Ok…so I’m getting a LOT of emails/comments from readers upset with me about that cliff hanger in my previous email and blog post. Sorry about that… Anyway, as I suggested ...…
So, on most weeks I send out helpful advice about writing, getting published and selling more books… Well . . . today is a bit different. I want to pull back the curtain a little bit and share something more personal. Here goes… I was recently out celebrating my 40th birthday (old, I know!). As ...…
Writing a book proposal can be almost as hard as writing a novel. In 2001, when I was first looking to get published, the idea of writing a book proposal was frankly pretty scary. In fact, I did what most writers seem to do, that’s knock together a crappy book proposal that turns out to ...…
The aim of a query letter is to provide everything an agent needs to NOT reject your book without consideration — all in one short letter. I have previously outlined the technique I have used to write query letters that resulted in me getting more than 20 books published. However, a number of writers have ...…
The music world has shown us that it will be the little boys, not the big boys, that will revolutionize the way we read and produce books (think Spotify). In fact, the thought leaders in the digital publishing space are already predicting that two types of approaches to ebooks will guide what happens in the ...…
In 2008 the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (UK) commissioned a survey to examine author’s earnings. Here’s what they found: The average (mean) annual earnings of a writer: £16,531 The typical (median) earnings of a writer: £4,000 60% of people who saw themselves as ‘professional authors’ required a second source of income The average (mean) ...…
Book trailers are rapidly becoming a major pillar in many self-published writer’s marketing campaigns. The book trailer’s ability to communicate the essence of a book in a short and entertaining manner can be a real boost to sales. In this article BubbleCow writer Laura Elliott explains how you can make your own book trailer without ...…
Writing a killer query letter, synopsis and extract can be very tough. At BubbleCow, we have always helped writers using our copy editing service to prepare their books for submission to agents and publishers. It is part of the service. In recent months I have found myself increasingly using Google+ hangouts to help writers to ...…
Rejection and writing go hand-in-hand, but sometimes it feels that those pesky publishers simply don’t know what they are talking about. Here’s eleven reasons writers might just be right after all… Madeline L’Engle’s book, A Wrinkle in Time, was turned down 29 times before she found a publisher. C.S. Lewis received over 800 rejections before ...…
