Books… 11 ideas for promoting your new book 8 Nov 20258 Nov 2025 It's a shock to the system. Really. You've finished your book, you've either landed a contract with a traditional publisher or made arrangements to self-publish. You're sitting back, waiting for…
Books… Gotchas in Book Contracts 27 Feb 2025 When I had an opportunity to move from self-publishing to traditional publishing years ago, I didn't think I needed a literary agent. I landed contracts through personal connections and highly-targeted…
Books… An updated state-by-state look at the Who Pooped series 19 Nov 20175 May 2023 A few years ago, I got to wondering how many different states were covered by my Who Pooped? series, and it led to a blog post that is now obsolete, as…
Books… Merchandising for Libraries Keynote 29 Oct 20165 May 2023 One of the best things about teaching and giving seminars is that it makes you think about subjects you might not otherwise have thought about. I was approached by Edmaker…
Books Bookselling by the Numbers 18 Oct 20167 Jan 2022 Last week at the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA) fall tradeshow, I put on a seminar titled Bookselling by the Numbers, where I discussed some of the various…
Books See you in the Big Apple! 16 Jun 20161 Feb 2023 Next week, I head to New York City on a book tour. The schedule still isn't completely nailed down—why have a final schedule a week before the trip?—but I'd love to…
Books… When being an author is fun 25 May 20165 May 2023 Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their…
Books The end of an era … and start of a new one 2 May 20165 May 2023 UPDATE 2018: We are back in Red Lodge, but not with a bookstore. Phoenix Pearl Tea is our tea and game business on Broadway, right next door to where Red…
Books… A peek inside the cashflow of writing books 7 Jul 20155 May 2023 I was poking around on Quora and came across an interesting juxtaposition of questions: Neither of these is an unusual question. Quora is filled with people asking how to make money…
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