by bookshepherd_admin | Sep 1, 2015 | Author Success, Book Marketing, Book Success, Books
When interviewing a prospective book designer, ask these key questions:What is his or her experience in book production? This isn’t the time for your to work with a designer newbie—you want someone who has years of experience. Your designer to-be should have...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jun 16, 2015 | Book Success, Books
Libraries … a great place to sell books to. Why? They pay their accounts on time and don’t return books. Librarians love books and create buzz in the library community. Librarians make recommendations and know their customers. What you need to know is that the...
by bookshepherd_admin | Apr 14, 2015 | Books, CrowdFunding
Sometimes books take a long time to germinate, get written and finally published. AND, sometimes they roar out that the author is a tad stunned at the what can be accomplished in such a short period of time. That’s exactly what happened to me last month …...
by bookshepherd_admin | Nov 11, 2014 | Book Publicity, Books
A special message from Joan Stewart, for next weekend … If you want to sell books, you’ll sell far more if you’re not just an author. You also need to be an expert, even if you’re writing fiction. But it can take years to gain expert status in your...
by bookshepherd_admin | Nov 3, 2014 | authors, Book Shepherd, Books, Personal Smarts, self publishing, Workplace Smarts
Should you publish to enhance your credibility, reputation … or just launch into a new stage of your career … or a new career. Not a week goes by that these questions don’t surface via email or a phone call: Should I try to sell my...
by bookshepherd_admin | Dec 26, 2011 | Book Shepherd, Books, Personal Smarts, self publishing, Workplace Smarts
Eat, Prey & Kind of Love … First of all, I have to tell you . . . I did not like Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, Eat, Pray, Love. Oh, there’s no question that the author is talented. It’s well written—about a married women who doesn’t want to be married. She’s got to do...
