March 4, 2014 – The Bookshop Blog

Finding Success in Self-Publishing

March 4, 2014 by Bruce K. Hollingdrake

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. The sheer ability to produce … Read more

What Did You Expect? Tips for Working With Local Authors

March 4, 2014 by Caroline Scutt

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 are often overwhelmed with local … Read more