Monday, May 20, 2013

Competing in the Amazon Marketplace

In the competitive world of publishing authors often sit and contemplate how to live off selling books. How can I quit my day job and be a full-time author? How can an author effectively do that if every avenue that they must utilize to sell books has a method for them to be undercut, and lose potential sales. Indie authors have to compete with mainstream authors and the money put behind them to market and advertise their book, and the huge print...
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

My Urban Books: A Conversation with Rahiem Brooks

My Urban Books: A Conversation with Rahiem Brooks:       Every author has a story and every writer has their own writing style that will make the world stop dead in their tracks. But the o...
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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Really Tired of Urban Book Stores

I don't want to get all HOLLYWOOD as I visit here, but I sell far more books to MYSTERY BOOK STORES in remote places like Boise Fuckin Idaho, and I don't even try to get into so called black owned stores. It's so sad, but they want you to kiss they ass to carry a book and then kiss they ass some more to pay you. You have some that don't want to try to carry ya book and give you a shot, and alas they going out of business months later. Good for them! They book you on a signing and do absolutely no promotion to help both parties. And what's strikingly...
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