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Facebook for Fun and Theoretical Profit

March 6, 2014— 0 comments

I was talking to one of the owners of a local coffee shop. He’s a fifty-ish kind of fellow, similar to myself, like a bit of bluegrass music and has been in the food service business for a couple of years. I had worked up a wine-tasting cross-promotion between our[Read More...]
What Did You Expect? Tips for Working With Local Authors

March 4, 2014— 0 comments

Here are the facts: There were almost 300,000 books published in the U.S. in 2012 according to our friends at Wikipedia. Nearly half of those titles are self-published. Publishers Weekly counted roughly 12,000 bookstores in the U.S. in 2013. Do the numbers and it isn’t difficult to see why retail booksellers[Read More...]
The Hanff Effect: I Don’t Think We’re In Mississippi Anymore

February 24, 2014— 0 comments

by Jas Faulkner The girls are besieged by Hanff manques… “Helene Hanff is dead, isn’t she?” Tab, one half of the ownership of Circle in the Square Books glanced toward someone just out of range of the cam on her laptop and then stared back at me. “I will pay[Read More...]
They said WHAT? Not-so-funny Customer Comments

February 21, 2014— 18 comments

We’ve all had wide-eyed moments when we find ourselves thinking Really, did this person standing in front of me actually just say that? And being the customer-focused, benefit-of-the-doubt-giving, gentle bookseller souls we are, we respond with a nod and a smile and keep our sarcastic comebacks to ourselves. The good[Read More...]
Mall Book Stores: 100% Corporate, Just Add Character

February 18, 2014— 0 comments

by Jas Faulkner You could call this article “The Hanff Effect: Part One”. This story actually has two beginnings. The most recent is my friends’ experience with a reading group that had just finished Helene Hanff’s books and how they took them to heart. You’ll hear more about that later[Read More...]

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Broadening Horizons Through Research

A Guest Post by John Reinhard Dizon Writers’ block can be one of the most formidable obstacles along an author’s road to success. It can be ascribed to different causes: in my case, it was being depressed over the sudden inactivity of my rock band after a successful performance run. I[Read More...]

by Bruce K. Hollingdrake — March 6, 2014 — Writer's Corner

Finding Success in Self-Publishing

A Guest post by Tim Johnson I have been a self-published author since I started writing in 2010. Within the past 3-4 years I have been able to self-publish 4 children’s books, and 9 non-fiction books, both independently and as collaborations with other authors and illustrators from around the world.[Read More...]

by Bruce K. Hollingdrake — March 4, 2014 — Self Publishing, Writer's Corner

Marketing Your Self-Published Book

More and more writers are self-publishing these days but as great as that sounds, it does bring up the problem of not having the same level of marketing help that you’d have if you were being published by a big name. However, there are several ways that you can easily[Read More...]

by Bruce K. Hollingdrake — February 24, 2014 — Marketing Ideas, Self Publishing

The Publishing Conundrum for the New Writer

A Guest Post by Author David M Wynn For the new writer, the writing process itself seems by far to be the most important aspect of being a writer; that need to get the story down on paper, that feeling of fulfilment as the final few pages come together, that[Read More...]

by Bruce K. Hollingdrake — February 24, 2014 — Self Publishing, Writer's Corner

The Most Visually Stunning Libraries in the World

A little off topic but I thought these images were worth sharing. There’s nothing quite like a beautiful library, they have such a magical feel. These take that to a whole new level. Take a look at these visually stunning libraries, compiled by Sarah Park from Matador Networks. Complete with[Read More...]

by Bruce K. Hollingdrake — February 20, 2014 — Around the Web, Miscellaneous

The Self Publishing Revolution

– How it Happened and Why it’s Good for All of us, even Publishers By Chris Lunda Author of The Voodoo Prophecies trilogy So, you have written your first novel or perhaps you are nearing its completion and toying with the idea of self publishing. But what about the nullifying[Read More...]

by Bruce K. Hollingdrake — February 13, 2014 — Self Publishing

The New Craft of Writing

This is a Guest Post by Lynden Gillis of http://www.GetFisk.com The current craft of writing is now evolving as the world is evolving – faster than ever before. This evolution is dictated by technology. Within a year or two, over 90 % of Americans will spend an average of two[Read More...]

by Bruce K. Hollingdrake — February 10, 2014 — Writer's Corner

“Where do you get your books, and why we don’t have a bookstore cat.”

“Wow. I really like your selection. Where do you get your books?” the Customer asked. Little did he realize that I have a good understanding of customer-speak. Beneath his seemingly simple question lies his true thought: “I have a bunch of books I don’t need, and probably never read, and[Read More...]

by John Hendricks — February 5, 2014 — Miscellaneous