by bookshepherd_admin | Aug 22, 2017 | Book Marketing, self publishing
The typical self-published author sells less than 100 books. One Hundred Freakin’ Books! Yikes. You can’t make a living that way. You can’t cover your costs of production. What you do has become frustrated and dismayed. In other words, you...
by bookshepherd_admin | Sep 27, 2016 | Podcasts, self publishing, Special Posts, Ways to Publish Your Book
A special request and ask of you … AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing that I host on the Toginet Radio Network has been broadcasting for three years now. Its audience is robust. All shows are fresh and woven with content to advance you and your book’s success in...
by bookshepherd_admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Book Industry News, Book Marketing, Book Success, Publishing, self publishing, The Book Shepherd, Writing Success
Are you feeling overwhelmed in the publishing maze? This week is the official launch for my latest book, How to Avoid 101 Book Publishing Blunders, Bloopers & Boo-Boos. I love the fun of it … and the essentials/must haves and knows of it. And you will too For...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jul 30, 2016 | Author Success, Book Success, Kick Butt Author Tips, self publishing
I’m always the amused when authors to be jump the gun to become an author. Don’t, there’s lots you need to learn in the very fast whirlwind of publishing that if not, can paralyze your book. And you.Avoid the RTP Syndrome … Rush to Publish. Too...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jul 12, 2016 | Book Industry News, Book Marketing, self publishing
The so called “HUGE news” in bookland last week was all about Barnes & Noble: it has actually made a competitive move that could leave Amazon in the dust (there are 640 BN stores … Amazon has only 3) … but will it? I don’t think so. Maybe it may just be:And maybe...
by bookshepherd_admin | Apr 5, 2016 | Publishing, self publishing, The Book Shepherd, Writing Success
As I finish up the corrections of my new book over the weekend, I’m doing the happy author dance–this is one terrific book—jeeze, I so wished I had just a fraction of the 101 ahas within when I started down the publishing path 30 years ago. AND woot!...
