Blog Taking your self-published book into a bookstore 27 Nov 201430 Nov 2014 It happens all the time. An author comes into my bookstore and says, "would you carry my book here?" If they're carrying a copy of the book, I ask to…
Blog An open letter to Hachette r.e. Amazon 9 Aug 2014 As an Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) author, I received an email today from their KDP team. It laid out their side of the Amazon-Hachette dispute and encouraged authors to…
Blog A professional social media business manager, obviously 29 Dec 2013 This blog, like every other blog, gets a lot of spam comments. Most of them are nonsensical, posted by bots in the hope that there's no spam filter and the…
Blog Small Business and the Marketplace Fairness Act 24 Apr 201318 Aug 2013 If you listen to the scary emails being sent by massive online businesses like eBay, I should be panicking right now. They say that the "Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013"…
Blog BookLamp and the Book Genome Project 5 Apr 201317 Nov 2017 I was perusing BookRiot yesterday and came across a post entitled "12 Alternatives to Goodreads." This is a hot topic since the announcement that Amazon is acquiring Goodreads, and I…
