Broadening your audience with KDP Select
What if you could lend the electronic version of your book to readers for free, while pocketing a royalty? Sounds crazy, right? Well, perhaps it would be, if not for Kindle’s ever-adapting platform. “KDP Select” is a program that enables Amazon
Let your fans dictate where your signings should be
Congratulations! You've finished the final manuscript, ARCs are rolling out to reviewers, and you’re waiting for the big publication date to arrive so you can tell friends and family where to pick up your book. Only one thing left to
Social media monitoring for books
California startup CoverCake offers publishers, authors and retailers a complete rundown on what books people are talking about online. From their site: "While working on solving the book discovery problem, we noticed book readers were leaving hundreds of thousands of comments on many
Considering social media strategy before you submit
Whether you’re writing fiction or nonfiction, you can make yourself more desirable to publishers or agents (and thus, more likely to get an offer) if you can demonstrate that you’ve already got a good grasp on who your readers are