Join Us At Rancho La Puerta When We Are Presenting How to Write Market And Publish

Since Brenda and I will be presenting at Rancho La Puerta July 14-21 on: “How to Write, Market & Publish Your Book,” we thought we would share the special they are running for guests of presenters. We would love to see some of you there. I just read the schedule of presenters. In combination...

52 Ways to Sell More Books! Tip #41 from AME

Tip #41 Why (some) Authors Fail Sorry for the buzz kill title of this article, but instead of spreading pixie dust as many marketing articles do, I thought I’d take a hard look at the realities of self-defeating behavior and some of the things authors might buy into that will...

Next Generation Indie Book Awards Call for Entries – Over $10,000 in Monetary prizes, 60 categories

This was great for our book, Success, Your Path to a Successful Book. Being a “Finalist” made a difference. Plus the critique of what would have made the difference helped us. Call for Entries for 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards If you would like to receive greater recognition, monetary...

Tips for Writing a Cookbook

I wrote this article originally for Big Blend’s Success Express. I thought I’d share here. When Brenda and I wrote our first book, Our Love Affairs with Food & Travel, we did not have the knowledge of a lot of these details. It’s a great book featuring over 90 chefs from 19 countries...

Proofing Your Book – It’s Important

Proof time. There is nothing quite like the feeling of seeing your proof copy of your new book. What’s better, the final published copy. When Brenda, Norm and I were in the midst of editing our proof of $uccess, Your Path to a Successful Book it was exciting. Naturally, we were hoping for just a few...