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What do retailers want from authors?
Retailer’s needs aren’t all that different from traditional publisher’s needs. Retailers rely on the author to have a platform and followers, or a tribe. What is a tribe? Seth Godin has written a...
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Books for Writers
Writers need to read just as much as anyone else, and Mary Keeley, agent with Books & Such Literary Agency, has compiled a great list of books for writers. What other books would you add to the...
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Practice What You Preach
What happens when you don’t practice what you preach? You lose credibility. As a sales and marketing professional, one of the things I preach to authors I work with is consistency. If they are trying...
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Success can be a great consistency killer
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my desire to be more consistent with communication. With the best intentions, I set a goal to talk about what we are doing as an organization and do it with regularity. I...
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Indie Authors Beware!
A week doesn’t go by when I don’t hear from an author who has been suckered into a poor self-publishing package. By the time I talk with them, they have spent thousands of dollars and are not happy...
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Switching Service Providers
In the past few weeks, BelieversPress has been contacted by authors who want or need to move their files from other publishing organizations. To save you time, we’ve listed some of our information...
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Ready to Go National?
Authors often ask me, “Can you get my book into Barnes and Noble?” They’re really asking if I can put their book on the shelves. The simple answer is no. What distribution does for any author, whether...
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5 Myths about Independent Publishing
Self-publishing is here to stay. According to Kelly Gallagher, Vice President of Bowker Market Research: “What was once relegated to the outskirts of our industry—and even took on demeaning names like...
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Why Take the Indie Route?
I recently read a blog post by agent extraordinaire Terry Burns, in which he discusses hybrid authors and why we see more of them each year. I agree with his assessment and want to add a few items from...
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Don’t Get Scammed
Would you think it’s a great deal for a company to boast about charging you “just $19” to print a single copy of a book you could get printed elsewhere for $3.25? What if they said that by paying “just...
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