Search
Search Only:

Search Keyword blogs

Total: 40 results found.

Return to Blogs and Resources page Facebook is a powerful marketing tool for authors. Once you know how to use Facebook's features to your advantage, you will be able to build your own presence on Facebook. ...
2. Getting recharged
(NBP Staff Blogs/It Is Worth It All!)
Hectic lives. Weighty responsibilities. Multiple roles. Work and family unending issues. The press of life can take it's toll on our lives as we negotiate it day after day, month after month.  ...
3. When honors and awards come
(NBP Staff Blogs/It Is Worth It All!)
Yesterday the Apopka Area Chamber of Commerce awarded me the Businessman of the Year award for community service and business leadership for our area in Northwest Orange County. What an honor, and certainly ...
4. Why don't you write?
(NBP Staff Blogs/It Is Worth It All!)
... this in coming blogs... Read more: It Is Worth It All  ...
Three days ago I went on my annual retreat. It is a personal audit time I have with God and myself each year. This year I got up early, packed my notebook, pen, Bible, journal, iPod, laptop and lawn chair, ...
6. Adventure or same old same old?
(NBP Staff Blogs/It Is Worth It All!)
I am sitting in the Orlando International Airport about to take off on another mission's trip to Ecuador. I have been on adventures like this many times. So what's going to make this opportunity ...
7. Adventure or "same old same old"?
(NBP Staff Blogs/It Is Worth It All!)
I am sitting in the Orlando International Airport about to take off on another mission's trip to Ecuador. I have been on adventures like this many times. So what's going to make this opportunity different ...
8. Capturing Your Thoughts
(NBP Staff Blogs/It Is Worth It All!)
Everyday great thoughts come and go – they escape, and we lose them. Like a “traffic speed trap” set by police, we need to be on the alert for speeders (great thoughts) ...
9. Daddy | New Book Publishing
(NBP Staff Blogs/It Is Worth It All!)
Yesterday, I was on a deserted barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Clearwater Florida with my Sheila and daughter Stacy's family. What a great day of vacation watching two of my four ...
10. Transitioning to Focus on the Important
(NBP Staff Blogs/It Is Worth It All!)
As I was walking and talking with God this morning, while on vacation in New Port Richie Florida, I felt like God dropped into my mind the phrase – “transitioning to focus on the important.” ...
11. Year Round Publicity Machine
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page If you’re like most publicity seekers, you probably think about one project at a time. You’ve got a new book coming out in July, so you send out a release ...
Return to Blogs and Resources page Let’s face it, the children’s book market is one of the most competitive spaces in the retail book trade. A children’s book is not only measured against ...
13. Tips for Getting Your Book on TV
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page 5 P’s for getting on talk shows: Pitch Package Preparation Performance Perseverance Pitch The hook is the most ...
Return to Blogs and Resources page Today working with the media often includes leaving voice mail messages for your contacts. The following are 10 tips to help make your messages more effective. ...
15. Better Than Bookstore Signings: Party On
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page Let me ask you a question: When was the last time you attended a book signing for an author you had never heard of? Last month? Last year? Last . . . oh, forget about ...
16. Color Your Way to a Best-Seller
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page "Do your darndest in an ostentatious manner all the time," advised General George S. Patton. It's advice that can be applied to the business of selling books. Maybe ...
Return to Blogs and Resources page If you want to sell 10,000 copies of a book through a bookstore, you must get roughly 10,000 people to go there and buy it. If you want to sell 10,000 copies in ...
18. Today's Best Press Release Tactics
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page If you’re crafting a press release to fax or email to the media—stop! This is a colossal waste of your time. Why? Because the old way of handling press ...
19. Where to Get Book Reviews Today
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page With prominent book-review media shrinking and dying, this is a good time to focus on the hundreds of other free review opportunities that exist for books in all ...
20. Writing Tips – How to Finish a Book
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page How to finish a book? That age old question that every writer has had to solve. How many books are started but never completed? But the more important question ...
21. Announcing Your Book to the World!
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page Congratulations! Your book is in your hands; it is now easily seen on the Internet through our website, Amazon.com, Google Book Preview and hopefully, if you followed-through ...
22. Seven Steps to a Great Press Release
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page It's a simple equation: media exposure equals more money for you as a writer. Give an interview on a local radio station and watch your book sales increase. Get ...
Return to Blogs and Resources page Do you want to impress editors? Do you want to attract more readers and sell more books? Do you want readers and editors to know that you are an expert in your field? ...
24. Spur Book Sales with E-Mail Newsletters
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page E-mail newsletters consisting of material based on your book are an inexpensive way to create pre-publication buzz and post-publication publicity, as well as to generate ...
25. Publishing Tips
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page Selecting a publisher for your book is one of the most important decisions you will make as an author. There are so many things to consider, Keeping ...
26. Publicity 101
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page Did you ever play with blocks when you were a kid? You always used the same set, but you mixed and matched the pieces differently every time you built something. Constructing ...
27. Organizing Your Book
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page Easy steps to begin the writing process. Create a brief outline, in chronological order, of the storyline of your book. Using index cards and a pencil, ...
Return to Blogs and Resources page Conducting a regional library tour is one of the least appreciated ways to sell books and gain crucial exposure at the same time. If you live in a small state, the ...
29. How Human Are Your Characters?
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page To make your characters interesting to your readers, you have to make them human. To make them human, you have to give them traits with which your readers can identify. ...
30. Guidelines for Book-Length Manuscripts
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page Stylebooks help you write clearly and correctly. Whether you are writing a non-fiction or a fiction book, there are guidelines you must follow, both in ...
31. How to Get Great Testimonials for Your Book
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page Testimonials are among the most powerful yet inexpensive marketing tools around. Good ones grab attention and encourage potential buyers to pick up the book. ...
32. Give Books Away
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page In book promotion, time is of the essence. Your book has a date on it, and few people in the book trade are interested in an "old" book. Or, as media coach Joel ...
33. Getting Good Story Ideas
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page Try these tricks to start collecting ideas for your novel. Don't you just love it when non-writers assume that all a writer needs to do is sit around ...
34. Dressing a Book for Success
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page One truism of graphic design is that you can’t not communicate. What you wear, how you speak (or your silence), the way you move . . . every action or inaction ...
35. Common Grammatical Errors
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page No matter how well educated or well read we are, most writers make grammatical errors from time to time. Usually such errors are the result of rushing to meet deadlines, ...
36. Author Blogs
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page What are blogs? Should I have a blog? A few weeks ago I was involved in a very strange conversation with some pretty bright people. One publishes a widely ...
37. Advertising Your Books For Free
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page What if there were a way to make your title known to every potential buyer--for free? There is, and it's called word-of-mouth advertising--people talking to people--the ...
Return to Blogs and Resources page In this business, talking about our books with a sense of ease is not only a skill, it's a necessity. "Oh dread," you say? "I'm embarrassed, shy, feel dumb." We can ...
39. The 411 on Book Signings
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page Book-signing engagements at bookstore chains, independent stores, and libraries can be important, or even crucial, ways to sell books. By experimenting ...
40. Hearing from God When Writing Your Book
(Author Resources/Articles)
Return to Blogs and Resources page What a massive endeavor – to consider writing a Christian book to assist God’s people in moving forward in their lives. Although excited with the prospect ...
Request Writers' Newsletter
Follow Us on facebook
 
 

877-311-5100                  
Home | Contact | Bookstore | Site Map