by Judith Briles | Sep 23, 2025 | Author Mistakes, scams
With the permission of Victoria Strauss and writer beware I’m re-printing a recent blog and warning that Victoria put out about the continuing Scams that many of you are getting hit by within not only Texts, but your emails. Remember if it sounds just too good to be...
by Judith Briles | Aug 6, 2024 | Author Alert, Author Mistakes, Author Success, Book Marketing, Book Publishing
Author Alert … Avoid the 7 Deadly Sins of Publishing Publishing has always been a marathon … if fact, a series of them. If you are looking for an overnight sensation, you are doomed to failure. Publishing takes time. No matter if you are on the...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jun 1, 2021 | Author Mistakes, Author Power, Author Success, Book Shepherd, Judith Briles - The Book Shepherd
Has the invisibility cloak of lack of confidence ever enveloped you as an author? The year 1987 was a big publishing year for me—three books were published by three different New York publishing houses. All books did well and continued to add to my education as a...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 11, 2021 | amazon, Author Mistakes, Author Power, Author Success, Webinars
Last Friday, my friend, author advocate, publishing truth-teller and award-winning book designer Joel Friedlander died from bladder cancer. A colleague of many years, I wrote for Joel’s website, TheBookDesigner, until he sold it several months ago; had him many...
by bookshepherd_admin | Apr 6, 2021 | Author Mistakes, Author Success, Book Industry News, Book Marketing, Judith Briles Book Publishing Unplugged
Too, too many authors abandon the book ship early in the process. And what do they do? Many start another book—maybe a variation of what they just did. And what will happen when they finish? Most likely, abandonment. In effect, you’ve become an unfit author/book...
by bookshepherd_admin | Mar 2, 2021 | Author Alert, Author Mistakes, Author Success, Book Marketing, Change
It’s 2021 and Time for an Author Do-Over … A Change in Plans 2020 was a wallop of a year in dishing out change, flowing it from multiple directions. The way you worked, where you worked, and how you worked morphed. Socializing was flipped on its head. Outside...
