This Week in the Blogs: January 18 – 24, 2010
Responses to Author Solutions CEO Kevin Weiss, a fascinating and extensive illustrated history of the Helvetica typeface, some advice on maintaining email etiquette, and a terrific new resource for...
View ArticleThis Week in the Blogs: February 1 – 7, 2010
It’s been busy here this week at Marin Bookworks, with design proposals going back and forth with several clients at lightning speed, ARCs headed for the printer, cover designs getting fine tuned....
View ArticleAuthor Platform: What Are You Waiting For?
A famous and often repeated piece of advice to writers is: The time to start working on your author platform is three years before your book is published. I’ve repeated this to several clients, and it...
View ArticleSelf-Publishing Pro and Con(temptuous)
Just when you think the fires have gone out, they flare up somewhere else. Did you see the blog post earlier this month at Rachelle Gardner’s Rants and Ramblings called Think Hard Before...
View ArticleHow To Write Book Titles for People & Robots
In advertising, it’s said, 80% of the effectiveness of your ad depends on your headline. Brian Clark of Copyblogger says Your headline is the first, and perhaps only, impression you make on a...
View ArticleThis Week in the Blogs, March 11 – 17, 2012
Is it warming up where you are? We’re seeing buds on our flowering trees here, and no letup in the interest in self-publishing. This week we’ve got a huge “AMA” on the subject, advice for the assault...
View ArticleThis Week in the Blogs, April 15 – 21, 2012
Spring is rapidly encroaching and brushing off the winter doldrums. Announcements, launches and openings shouldn’t keep you from these great articles this week. We’ve got ereaders, ghostwriters, social...
View ArticleThis Week in the Blogs, September 12 – 18, 2015
This is officially the last weekend of the summer. Did you know that? So, if the weather permits where you are, maybe stretch out on the hammock one last time for the season and check out the articles...
View ArticleThis Week in the Blogs, June 30 – July 6, 2018
By Shelley Sturgeon Several of the articles in this week’s selection have generated a lot of response from readers. Why not take a look and get in on the conversations? And, if you’d like to...
View ArticleThis Week in the Blogs, August 4 – 10, 2018
By Shelley Sturgeon Hope your weekend is going well. Don’t miss this week’s selection of great articles on writing and self-publishing from some of the best blogs on the web. And, just a quick reminder...
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