The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) today announced a new monthly award for independent writers, the ALLi Book of the Month Awards. Run in partnership with Amy Edelman of Indie Reader, Joni Rodgers of I’ll Have What She’s Reading and Kathy Meis of Bublish, the awards will champion the best indie writers and books, allowing […]
As many writers know, November is National Novel Writing Month. During the thirty days of November, participants are challenged to produce a 50,000-word novel. This requires writing, on average, about 1,667 words per day. It’s ambitious. The goal of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is to motivate writers to get their stories out of their […]
By the end of this post you’ll know two things about me: I have dry skin…and…as the founder of Bublish, I am obsessed with improving book discovery in the Digital Age. With this in mind, forgive me when I compare books to skin lotion. I see lessons about book marketing everywhere! So…I recently visited a […]
A couple of weeks ago, we blogged about building a personal brand and the power of voice in book promotion. A number of you asked us to provide examples of writers who have successfully developed a voice for sharing their work with readers. Originally, we planned to highlight a number of authors who do this fairly […]
Have you ever gone into a bookstore in search of something that speaks to you? Damn the bestseller lists, the online recommendation algorithms or what your friends were reading. You were looking for your soul mate. You wandered over to your favorite genre and started picking up titles. You sampled a few pages in a […]
Are you that author who regularly shouts “buy my book” on Twitter and Facebook? If this is your idea of book promotion, you need to get comfortable with the fact that your personal brand is “salesperson.” That’s fine if your books are about how to sell things, but a terrible fit if you write novels […]
Once in a while we get to know the team at a fellow start up that really impresses us and can add value to the Bublish community. We like their mission and we trust them. One such company is Pubslush, a crowdfunding platform for books and authors. We’ve just created a custom Bublish page on […]
A couple of Bublish authors recently inquired about how Bublish’s #SampleSunday Marathon and Floating Bookstore work. This blog post is meant to answer their questions. #SampleSunday is a Twitter hashtag that allows readers to view book samples that are shared on Sundays. It’s popular with readers, so it’s a great hashtag to use when sharing […]
Today, we’d like to talk about some of the innovative and successful campaigns publishers are creating with Bublish. Danielle Childers, marketing coordinator at BelleBooks, Inc. and Bell Bridge Books in Memphis, Tennessee has been kind enough to join us to talk about some of ways they’ve used book bubbles to engage readers. Bublish: Welcome Danielle. […]
Today, we are pleased to welcome Martin Crosbie, a self-published author of the Amazon bestseller My Temporary Life and the follow up novel, My Name Is Hardly. He also has a collection of short stories entitled, Lies I Never Told. His next self-publishing workshop takes place in Vancouver, Canada in September 2013. Details can be found […]