Call (615) 213-6803 Have your ISBN, and something to write with ready. Make sure you enter the 13 digit version of your ISBN (starts with 978 or 979) The system will repeat what you entered, hit “1″ if you entered it correctly. Make sure this is correct or the information you get will be wrong! [...]

Your publicity strategy is beginning to pay off, and the interview requests are rolling in. Before you take your message to the airwaves, here are some things to consider: Review the contents of your book, making note of the specific passages that support your messaging points. Your main message should be simple, short and memorable.  [...]

[Meghan Dietsche] Goel [children’s book buyer for BookPeople in Austin, Tex.] understands why the publisher chose a real girl’s face. The 2007 Newbery Honor-winning The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt was “difficult to sell,” she said, because its jacket was simply a chalkboard. “We just could not sell it with that cover, even after it became [...]

Now that I have a few books under my belt people will ask me from time to time how they too can get published. That’s a hard question to answer because getting published is not very easy. One person from the industry told me once that getting published is like a horse race. Read the [...]

Telling lies for fun and profit . . . The lie that tells the truth . . . These are the titles of two well-known writing guides. They are riffing off an axiom of the writing enterprise, especially pertaining to fiction: that the lie told artfully is more true to life than the truth told [...]

Josie Leavitt, owner of an independent bookstore and blogger for Publishers Weekly, posted some helpful tips on getting local independent bookstores to carry your book: As the owner of an independent bookstore, I get approached at least twice a week by self-published authors asking me to sell their books. The world of self-published books has changed [...]