Tag Archive - nonfiction book promotion

Break the Rules to Become a Best Seller

I’ve been turning our attention to nonfiction authors, featuring guest posts from authors and marketers who have great insights on how nonfiction writers can market and promote their books. Often these tips are entirely appropriate for fiction writers as well. Today’s guest post is from Rob Eager, author consultant and founder of Wildfire Marketing.

The publishing industry is going through an incredible amount of chaos and transformation. Some of this change is good, such as new technology, lower prices, and easier ways for people to get access to information. In contrast, some changes are bad, such as Borders Bookstores filing for bankruptcy, publishers working with lower budgets and less staff, and authors finding it harder than ever to land new publishing contracts. Continue Reading…

Making Your Book Launch Stand Out

I’m always too busy to do book launches, but I know they are important—just one of those things I shake my head at, wishing I had the time and knew the best way to go about doing one. Last year I watched my blogger friend Angela Ackerman (The Bookshelf Muse) launch her nonfiction writing craft book The Emotion Thesaurus—a compilation and expansion on many months’ posts on how writers can show characters expressing emotion (showing, not telling, which is so important). I joined in on some of the fun the week of the launch and helped by tweeting and posting about her book. One year after launch, she’s sold more than 20,000 copies, so I asked her to share what she did and how writers can launch their books successfully. What interested me particularly was how and why she decided to self-publish. Here’s her post:

A book release is both exciting and terrifying. When my coauthor Becca Puglisi and I launched The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide To Character Expression, we seesawed between euphoria and dread. Two writers, unpublished and unproven, launching a self published “how-to” book about writing? How could we possibly compete with books like Donald Maass’ Writing the Breakout Novel, Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style, or an arsenal of popular writing books from Writer’s Digest? Continue Reading…