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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
There is true power in your future if you effectively use Facebook to advance your goals and platform. Yesterday, I posted my letter to BAM, and someone inboxed me about an error. They suggested that as opposed to addressing my letter to Dear Director, I should address the person by their name. I wholeheartedly agreed with the advise, but I informed them that I submitted the letter in the manner that the company asked for it. After we reviewed...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
I thought I'd join a few FB groups and interact with other people, but I just can't. I woke up to 87 notifications. Why? About 6 authors posted advertisements in about 8-12 groups all within a matter of seconds. The posts filled up my notifications to the point that I could not see which ones were directed at me from my personal wall, which I take serious. It's so absurd to me. Ninety percent of all the groups have the same members, so why launch an air assault on them. What's striking is if you ask these authors do they have media/press kits...
Friday, November 9, 2012
For many of you that do not have web sites, and FB is your primary method of introducing yourself and your service, please make sure your page is professional. I just can't take some of you serious when I see some of the silly profile pictures and nothing written in the "About Me" section. I am all for doing business with people I never met, but I don't want to chat with a person that has their 5 year old as their profile pic. I mean why are people exploiting their children any way. I don't want to talk to a cartoon character. And nope, no celebrities,...
Monday, October 29, 2012
In John Grisham's novel, THE RACKETEER it opens in a prison and the main character is black. Sounds like "urban fiction" to me, but it's classified as legal thriller and mystery. Just like, in James Patterson's Cross Series there is a black main character and takes place in the inner city of DC (in the movie it's set in Detroit). But that is also a mystery, not classified as "urban fiction". If you're an indie author and you upload your book to...
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Having written 50+ book reviews for authors, I find it difficult to tear an authors work apart, especially when most of the times that I read a book, I read it with an eye from the CEO desk of Prodigy Publishing Group. Mainly focusing on plot, as I am more attracted to that as opposed to character driven novels. However, I never read a book that's not my type and then tear it down. Equally, I would never take my personal issues with an author...
Monday, August 20, 2012
There is an overwhelming number of people that look to earn awards to help bolster their popularity and spark sales teams and book clubs to snatch up their book. Awards are an excellent way to promote and indicate a persons success and literary endeavors achieved making them worthy of honor. Having been in this business two years, I have created an awards that I have ran for two years, and it has had success and is designed to do what awards do:...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
This is a reality.
Just because 200 FB friends click that they will be attending your event doesn't mean they are coming. You'll have about half the people joining the event that live on the opposite coast and more people that join the event just because they like you or they click to join anything. In 2010 during my first and only release party not one FB person was there despite the overwhelming ppl that not only joined the event...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
I am kinda loss as to why people are always complaining about E-book prices. Why they try to figure out why would an author make a book free: who complains about Free stuff. Then the people that refuse to buy $0.99 books crack me up, as if John Grisham offered Kindle book for $0.99 anyone would complain. This is like the billionaire that only shops in Prada and scoffs at K-mart bargains. In my opine, some sales is better than no sales.
E-book pricing...
Saturday, April 21, 2012
For me to order 10 copies of DIE LATER it costs $50.09 to include shipping and taxes. If I go to a signing in Philadelphia (my hometown) and I sell each book for $10 and split with the store 50/50, I earn $50, which puts me in the hole $-0.9. Add in $8 for a roundtrip downtown on the local train and food/drinks for the day $10, I am in the whole $-18.09. Now, suppose I go to NYC for this signing with the same number of books. I paid $20 roundtrip...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Is it me, or is the Black book business very dysfunctional? I am looking for answers to these tough questions, because, I am so tired of unprofessional people that do not have telephone etiquette, do not possess any communication/business skills, do not have an up-to-the-minute inventory system, no knowledge of the authors that they carry, and their checks don't cash. So, I ask the following questions:
(1) How can I call book stores that have ordered from me directly on more than one occasion and they have absolutely no clue who I am?
(2)...
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