Intent to Sell:  Marketing the Genre Novel, by Jeffrey Marks

Due to overwhelming request, we've begun migrating our previously "available only to Booknook.biz" Resources section--over 80 links and sites helpful to the Indy Published author--to our Knowledgebase.  As part of this effort, we're adding our resources a bit at a time, focusing heavily at first on marketing tools and techniques as well as other areas (like cover designers, how to create/obtain a cover template, how to work with Twitter articles, etc.) 

Today's addition--someone well known to many of you--is Jeffrey Marks, award-winning novelist, marketing and publicity Guru, and his most recent Kindle Book, the Fourth Edition of his immensely popular "Intent to Sell:  Marketing the Genre Novel."  For those of you who don't know Jeff, he's not talking out of his hat; he's won a number of awards including the an Anthony in 2009 for his Anthony Boucher biography; Barnes and Noble Prize; and he has been nominated for an Edgar (MWA), an Agatha (Malice Domestic), a Maxwell award (DWAA), and an Anthony award (Bouchercon).   We're delighted to mention that  Booknook.biz produced this fourth version for him, in digital (ePUB and MOBI) formats, but having disclosed this--we'd be recommending Jeff, his novels, his book… 

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By Hitch on 03/28/12 - 11:34pm in • Ebook News • Ramblings

Booknook Success Story:  Client Tom Gates No. 1 in the iBookstore!

One of our favorite clients, Tom Gates, author of Wayward, is celebrating this week; his book has just topped the charts at iBooks, holding down the #1 spot in Travel Books, doing so in a matter of a mere few weeks. Tom talks about his book and experience in this interview in Matador. (n.b.: adult language in the interview). The book is knocking them dead on iBooks as well as Amazon, climbing to Amazon's top-ten in "travel essays," although that description doesn't do it service. Witty, charming, (and a hoot to work with), Tom shows how self-publishing can be the road forward--and a successful one, at that--for those of you with unheard voices.

Tom was also kind enough to give old Booknook.biz a plug, for which we are, of course, grateful.

To find Tom's book on your Amazon Kindle, you can click-thru this link: Wayward: Fetching Tales from a Year on the Road. Don't miss this one!

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By Hitch on 03/23/12 - 11:20am in • Ebook News

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT BOOK INTAKE:  DEC 1, 2011

Please take note:

• We are not accepting any new submissions for deadlines/delivery within the month of December, 2011.  Yes, we ARE accepting new intake titles, we simply are not slating delivery dates prior to Dec. 24th at this time; we are out to January 4th.  If you have a title you wish to submit during this month, that's fine, but we are not committing to complete any new titles, in addition to  the 152 we already have in production, in time for the Christmas holiday.  We are currently slating completion dates in January for everything in intake starting today.  If you are one of the two existing client imprints/authors that previously advised me that you would be delivering a title around the 10th, we are holding those two slots open for you. 
• It is my intention to CLOSE the office for the period starting at midnight, December 24th through Tuesday, January 3rd.  We will not be answering phones or responding to emails during that period. 
• We are currently running some days two days behind on our delivery dates.  Unfortunately, of the 152 titles we took in since the last week of October, it… 

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  By Hitch on 12/02/11 - 2:15am in • Ebook News

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