Posted January 7th, 2010 by lisatener
If you’re writing a book proposal, one important number to obtain is the number of books sold for any competitive or complementary books you plan to compare with yours.
Here’s a Book Proposal Secret: For the most part, you want to compare your book to bestsellers and backlist books (books that have been in print a [...]
Tags: bestseller, book proposal competitive books, book proposal hints, book proposal secrets, book sales, book sales statistics, competitive and complementary books, getting book sales numbers, getting book sales statisitcs, keyword searches, millions of copies sold, track competitive books' sales
Posted August 5th, 2009 by lisatener
As an author or aspiring author, you need to use social networks to help create your platform and, eventually, promote and sell your books.
Yet, social networks can eat hours or days of your time with little impact. This is because social networks aren’t generally built in a day. If your social network is going to [...]
Tags: apps, aspiring author, book promotion, book sales, book writing coach, book writing poll, facebook, facebook apps, favorite apps, linked in apps, linked-in, polls, social media, social networking, twitter
Posted February 2nd, 2009 by lisatener
Welcome to the first annual Book Publicity Week on Lisa Tener’s blog!
Special guest post by Rusty Shelton, Managing Director, Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists
When Lisa invited me to guest blog about book publicity, I thought back to five years ago when P&P ran a national publicity campaign for Lisa and her co-authors, Jane Middelton Moz [...]
Tags: author platform, book publicity, book reviews, book sales, booking an interview, literary publicists, phenix & phenix, Phenix and Phenix, platform, Print Publicity, publicity, publicize a book, radio interviews, Radio Publicity, Rusty Shelton, sell books, sound bytes, soundbyte, TV interviews, TV publicity
Posted January 8th, 2009 by lisatener
Many writers find it challenging to sit down and write at will. They might schedule the time in their calendar to write, but when the time comes, they suddenly notice the grimy buildup inside the stove (time for some steel wool) or they head to the fridge to fix themselves a snack–anything to avoid writing.
It [...]
Tags: a gentleman's agreement, blockbuster, book sales, Charles Dickens, Cosmopolitan, Donna Montalbano, fans, house on benefit street, procrastination, Providence, sequel, serializing, Stephen King, wickendon street
Posted November 22nd, 2008 by lisatener
I often hear questions about literary agents’ fees and book promotion expenses, such as those asked by Kathi McKnight in response to my last post. I’m sure many of my readers, students and writing coaching clients are burning to know the answers; so, rather than answer them in a comment, I decided to write a [...]
Tags: -, agent's fee, agent's percentage, author's business plan, book auction, book editor, book sales, bulk sales, business plan, editor, Kathi McKnight, Literary Agent, literary agent's fee, platform, publicity expenses, publishing expenses, writing coaching
