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I recently received an email from the publisher of my book, Abundant Gifts (New Hope), which included a a press release from Publisher's Weekly "about the issues that are sending all publishers back to the drawing board."

It was entitled, "Worse Publishing Environment May Be On the Way" which summarized an address given by Simon & Schus

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If you're an author or aspiring author, have you ever considered that you are a leader? As I mentioned in my recent Publishing Coach Weekly article, the real job of a successful author is to lead. Lead people toward your vision, lead people to interact with your ideas and do something about them.

Since you're already a leader (author means authority),… Continue

Recently I interviewed Mark Levine about his book, The Fine Print of Self-Publishing: The Contracts & Services of 45 Self-Publishing Companies--Analyzed, Ranked and Exposed. In that interview we talked about some of the biggest mistakes authors make when self-publishing. I wrote an article about it,… Continue

I know a lot of authors talk about "virtual book tours," and it seems to me what they mostly mean is visiting various blogs and posting about their book, and getting people to comment on it.

The authors I talk to who have done that are a bit skeptical about the effectiveness of this approach.

Perhaps one of the problems with the blog vbt is that you can't measure sales very well. Certainly getting the word out any way possible is great, and blog posts stay put forever and can be found anytime.… Continue

You're invited to listen to one or both interviews I did recently with Rick Frishman, president of Planned Television Arts, bestselling author, and now publisher at Morgan James Publishing.

Rick and I talked about his newest book, Where's Your WOW?: 16 Ways to Make Your Competitors Wish They Were You on my… Continue