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So if I have to blog, where do I start?
by, Jill Swenson
February 12, 2011

Authors are expected to have their own blogs today. Not just after the book comes out, but before. Publishers look at the visitor statistics to your blog as the potential market for your book. So before you send in that brilliant book proposal, build a platform for your publication. If you have never done any blogging before, the place to start is with reading and… [Read More]

Filed Under: Best Blogs for Writers to Follow, blogging, My Name is Not Bob, Platform, Publishers, Robert Brewer, Writer's Digest
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Sticky wickets on book sales
by, Jill Swenson
January 29, 2011

Barnes & Noble,  Borders, and thousands of small and independent book stores are struggling to pay their bills, including bills to publishers. Big commercial publishers are still in sticker shock that the old profit margins and traditional ways of doing business are gone. But everyone loves books.   Even GE.  Their extension of credit to Barnes & Noble to keep things alive a few more months in this… [Read More]

Filed Under: advances, Author investments, Authors, blogging, Books are alive and well, build readership, Dear Friend Amelia, Distribution, Jane Marie Books, Marketing, New Publishing Business Models, production loans, Publishing Partnerships, Six Mile Creek Press, subsidy
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