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Will Your Next Book Use Pinch Technology?

Interactive Books Are Getting Better all the time. Sales of eBooks, and book delivered to an e-reader like the Amazon Kindle are skyrocketing, and there is more video uploaded in the time it takes to read this short post than you could watch in a week. Text or mostly text books will be a around [...]

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Video Opportunity in Los Angeles

Author 101 University is a must attend event for authors who are serious about making it in publishing. I’ve told Rick Frishman that the “101” title is misleading. This has become a networking event that we go back to again and again. The next one is March 3-6 in LA. I’ll be shooting video segments [...]

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Is Your Text File an eBook?

I still see many books for sale without a Kindle version. And I still get asked if the author marketing suggestions I teach are good for e-books.. from people who decided not to print a book as a cost cutting idea. Here’s the future for a reading experience. This children’s book demo is a little [...]

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Use Your iPad to Write a Book

Sometimes when I’m working on my next BestSeller book, I get a bit of writer’s block, I get up from where I am writing and take a walk Within a few minutes, I’m interrupting the walk to write down an idea. Chris Voss show us a another alterative… Write wherever you want with these Apple [...]

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Best Seller System: “How To Write a Book”

When new authors ask me how to write a book, I start by focusing on marketing. As an author today, you need a promotion plan for yourself and your book before the writing begins. Every rich and famous author I know will tell you the same story. Book marketing and promotion sells books. No matter [...]

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“What Are the Latest Social Media Tricks?”

Thousands of Online Marketers came to Las Vegas last week for PUBCON. An conference for webmasters, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Social Media and Internet businesses. Many of the sessions were about Twitter and Social Media.. and how to make them work for business. In one session, “Latest Trends on Twitter,” I shared my thoughts about [...]

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Three Sure Fire Ways to Attract Readers

No matter what topic you write about, putting it in terms that your readers want to hear will always have more appeal. These three are strong buying motives. When you talk about your book, write descriptions, advertising copy or get interviewed about your book, keep in mind that potential readers are more interested in the [...]

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What Makes a Good Story?

I’ve been reading the work of JD Lasica and came across a link to Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Steps The whole piece is good, but step one is a great place to start for any author who wants to share stories: Step 1: Decide on the Story You Want to Tell You probably [...]

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Where Do Best Selling Authors Get Their Ideas?

We talk often about social networking and social media to market your book. Sometimes, I think authors suppose that these are good for promotion, and something that you switch on after your book is released. That may have been possible in the past, but is not the smart move today. Not only do I strongly [...]

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What Famous Author Writes Like You?

Every time I see a site that will analyze my writing style, tell me how search engine friend I write or judge my vocabulary level, I get mixed emotions. A bit scared that I’ll be found out.. my skills put down by a machine that tells me I don’t measure up in some way. :) [...]

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