10 Ways to promote your book without spending a cent
You probay are not getting the responces to you book sales without diligent marketing as a self publisher. What generally happens is a big percentage of mostly new authors spend the first few week
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Thank you all for watching my film "The Visitor" for the Hollywood Black Film Festival mobile challenge. We truly appreciate your support!
I am a HUGE fan of Black romantic Scifi films and Octavia Butlers work has definit
Read more…INDIE BOOKMAN on Making an Audiobook!
Posted by LM Preston on November 13, 2010
Audiobooks are pretty popular. I listen to them when I am on long roadtrips, but I know many of you listen to them much more frequently. And now that we can podify them
Read more…Basic Marketing Plan for Authors
Posted by LM Preston on December 31, 2010
What are the elements of a marketing plan?
Research the demographics of your audience. Like, where do teens hangout? How do they buy? Research other authors of like books
I've put up a series of posts and articles concerning crowdsourcing/crowdfunding and in them brought up significant points concerning issues involved before, during and after the process. Now the question I said would come up now has as a large scale
Many of us here in the SPC and the BSFS have either looked at starting a crowdsourcing campaign or even ventured forth to do so. Whether you used Kickstarter, Indie Gogo or setup your own independent donation array, getting the ball rolling trying to
These days 'Crowd Sourcing' is the way many independent (and now mainstream) creators are getting investor dollars for their projects. The two most common sources today are 'Kickstarter' and 'Indiegogo'. You can also make your own crowd sourcing port
Having been a published author since 2005, I've dealt with selling books on my own and dealing with bookstores. Bookstores don't want the risk of having unsold books filling their shelves and hedge their bets by getting terms for 'Returns' to publish
Read more…Black Book Stores
It almost seems obvious that we should approach black owned book stores to carry our books but it's not as simple as it seems. We write in a genre which is probably not as popular as it should be among our own, possibly because of
Read more…For those that are interested in self-publishing this may be helpful.
BookBaby digitally distributes the works of independent authors, poets, memoirists, and publishers, making their eBooks available to digital retailers (lik
Read more…Whether you're preparing to publish for the first time or are an old hand at it, your work is going to need an ISBN. The International Standard Book Number is the identifier (i.e. fingerprint) for your written work once published and made available f
Here is a resources I fall back on. Hopefully you can glean some usefulness from it.
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So, you've finished your novel, comic, film, whatever that's wonderful. What needs to happen next is to let people know about it. Sending out a press release is the next step. Yes, you can spread the word via Facebook and Twitter. But to reach those
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It's been a while but I've come across something that some of you may be able to take advantage of. Random House via their specific online departments; Loveswept, Alibi, Hydra and Flirt are accepting submissions for their launch of digit
Read more…One thing to remember whether your working on books, comics, graphic novels, games or films, if you're not doing it via an established distributor you'll have to self-publish it!
Though I do nearly all the above, filmmaking is where I have to do the h
Read more…Are you a filmmaker looking for somewhere to distribute your films other than Youtube? Do you have enough material for an online series or are working towards making more episodes? Does your work have at least one prominent black character? Would you
