Here is the latest tweak on two of my cover remixes. What do you think? Any last critiques before I officially change the cover for these two?
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It’s a cover-up!
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Tags: Author, book, cover, critique, DIY, ideas, reading, self-publishing
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Discover Authors: Compulsively Writing More Fiction 2012
Please visit the Discover Authors site for more great books! My book:
Compulsively Writing More Fiction 2012
My experiences after the first book
by Kate Policani
Genre: Nonfiction, Self-publishing
This is a FREE ebook!
Kate Policani has compiled and reorganized the useful blog posts she wrote in 2012. Kate writes her blog to promote her Self-published books and to journal her path through Self-publishing. Her experiences can help you to achieve your dream of publishing your book, whether you choose to self-publish, publish traditionally, or just write for your own enjoyment. Kate Policani is a homemaker and compulsive writer from Seattle who writes Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the Seattle Writing Examiner column.
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Categories: Discover Authors, My Books
Tags: book, discover authors, ebook, Fantasy, Kate Policani, promotion, science-fiction, self-publishing, Writing
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Book Marketing Companies Reviews: Continued
**These ratings for book marketing companies are all based strictly on customer experience and opinion. This is a running list and I will be happy to add other customer opinions of book marketing companies to this list. To include your ratings, please comment on this post or email me at katepolicani@gmail (dot) com.
Categories: Publicity, Self-Publishing
Tags: book listing, book tours, books, promotion, publicity, self-publishing, sell, tweet
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More Books!
I’ve just published a second blog compilation book full of webby goodness and organized so you can read it through or reference just the topics that interest you! Please click the cover to visit Smashwords for my new FREE book!
Categories: My Books
Tags: Author, blogging, book, free, publicity, reading, self-publishing, Writing
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Book Marketing Companies Update
I’ve been crazy busy lately! Sorry about the infrequent posts but I’m refinancing my house, doing taxes, enrolling kids in school, and other paperwork. Midwinter is also doing a number on my Coffee Equalization Coefficient. But here is an update on book promotion companies. I heard about a stinker recently and found some sites with personal testimonies, so I added those.
**These ratings for book marketing companies are all based strictly on customer experience and opinion. This is a running list and I will be happy to add other customer opinions of book marketing companies to this list. To include your ratings, please comment on this post or email me at katepolicani@gmail (dot) com.
3/7/2013
| Company Name | Type of service | Pass? | Costs | Comments |
| 99 cent Network | Listing | Fail | $45 | No obvious return for money and no visibility of book on site. No answers to emails inquiring about where to find the book |
| AtoMr Book Blog Tours | Tours, Book Buzz | Pass | $99 | Did ” an awesome job” “super happy with the results” “booked blogs that get awesome traffic and have a lot of avid readers” |
| Archway Publishing | Self-publishing, marketing, bookselling/promotion services | See author Solutions | ||
| AuthorHouse | Self-publishing, marketing, bookselling/promotion services | See Author Solutions | ||
| Author Solutions | Self-publishing, marketing, bookselling/promotion services | Fail | Additonal names: Trafford Publishing, AuthorHouse, iUniverse Inc., Xlibris,
“I simply cannot get anyone to respond to my e-mails on a book I am publishing with the company. The company says my book has already gone on sale, though they are obligated to provide me with a sizeable number of free books for my book launch – they have not and are not responding to e-mails….” |
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| Bewitch-ing Blog Tours | Tours | Fail | “half the people who signed up didn’t post and only 3 did reviews even though it was supposed to be 15” | |
| Book-Daily | Listing | Fail | $49 | “amount of sales doesn’t seem to be worth cost” |
| Book-Whirl | SCAM | Fail | Scam Report Another Scam Report | |
| Goddess Fish Promos | Tour Reviews | Neut. | $30 | “didn’t break even” but supplied publicity |
| Inno-vative Online Book Tours / Reading Addiction | Tours, Amazon Reviews | Fail | $100 | “A big flop, didn’t follow through as they had promised” “Three blogs didn’t post at all. The ones
who did post had very low followings, and NONE of them posted their review on amazon. Lame excuses from staff.” Bloggers posted ebook giveaway when customer didn’t offer them/wrong day. The ones who did post the correct giveaway all posted separate rafflecopter forms, preventing a fair winner or forcing customer to send 20 prize packs “Hasn’t given me any sales OR amazon reviews. Stay away from them.” |
| iUniverse | Self-publishing, marketing, bookselling/promotion services | See Author Solutions | ||
| Kindle Daily Nation | Listings | Fail | $160 | “no results” (used to be great but saturated with too many books) |
| Kindle Promo Indie Book Listing Service | Tweets | Pass | £15 | “actively promotes books” |
| Nurture Your Books | Tour, Promo, Nat. Press Release | Fail | $995 | Paid for services and “nothing happened” Multiple calls and emails got no reponse. Emails to everyone in the company finally got a response and offer of the book tour but couldn’t make the other person contact me. Customer resorted to refund through the credit card company. |
| Orange-berry Summer Splash Tour | Tours | TBA | $25 | Slots at tail end of month-long tour with 99 other authors, At least one event didn’t happen, never saw promised review, Orangeberry currently compensating author with discount second tour. |
| Partners in Crime | Tours | TBA | TBA | |
| Pump Up Your Book | Tours | Fail | Ripoff Report | |
| Promo. Book Tours | Tours, Release parties | Pass x2 | Facebook Page Increased by 700 fans, Twitter increased by 450 Follows, newsletter increased by 150, “booked blogs that get awesome traffic and have a lot of avid readers” | |
| Schiel & Denver | book publishing, editing, marketing, printing, distribution | Fail | Ripoff Report
“I did not get one on one author support. I did not get a quality product. I did not get the immediate response that they promised. As a matter fact, every time I called the main line and requested to speak to a manager, they were always in a meeting and the call was never returned.” |
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| Shades of Rose YA | Tours | Fail | $7.50, $15 | Newer company with small following, had trouble filling tours, do refund when cannot fill tour. |
| Sizzling PR | Tours | Pass -1
Fail -1 |
$15 -$75 | “Nice people and very affordable.”
“90% of the blogs were adult blogs/romance/erotica for a YA book” |
| Smith Publicity | Var. | Neut. | “Stellar results, high prices.” | |
| Trafford Publishing
*See also: Author Solutions |
Self-publishing, marketing, bookselling/promotion services | Fail -1 | See Author Solutions (Trafford was acquired by Author Solutions on April 2009.) | |
| Xlibris | Self-publishing, marketing, bookselling/promotion services | See Author Solutions |
Here are some useful Links:
http://www.authormedia.com/3-signs-of-a-publishing-scam/
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2007/02/happy-valentines-day-from-writer-beware.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/suwcharmananderson/2012/06/01/valuable-lessons-from-self-publishing-survey/ This was a fascinating one on what seems to work/not work for author promotion.
Categories: Publicity
Tags: Author, book marketing, promotion, publicity, publishing, review, scam, self-publishing
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New cover for The Silver Collar
I just thought I’d show you my project for today: a new cover for The Silver Collar! I’m spiffing up the story too with better editing and structure. The Silver Collar is always free (except on Amazon but they won’t change it).
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/153927
Photo by Marek Bernat
Categories: My Books
Tags: book, cover, ebook, free, reading, self-publishing, short story, werewolf
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Author Blog-in Day 2
Today is my book’s day on the Blog-in! Please visit these great sites to see Compulsively Writing Fiction there:
http://michael-ogara.blogspot.com/
Categories: Author Blog-in
Tags: Author Blog-in, books, DV berkom, experiences, frank etier, michael ogara, reading, self-publishing
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Author Blog-in: Compulsively Writing Fiction
Compulsively Writing Fiction
Compulsively Writing Fiction:
My experiences in Self-publishing in 2011
by Kate Policani
This is a FREE ebook
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/102331
On Kobo
For Nook
I began my self-publishing journey in 2011, writing my first novel and working through the processes of publishing myself on CreateSpace and other publishers. This free ebook is the compilation of my experiences and discoveries from my blog. I have reorganized them and added some clarification to make a comprehensive view of and instruction for self publishing in this, the rise of the digital book movement.
This book is crafted to help all of you new self-publishers to live your dream and publish your book!
Another free ebook coming soon: Compulsively Writing More Fiction: My Continued Self-publishing Adventures in 2012
Categories: Author Blog-in
Tags: Author Blog-in, book, ebook, experience, free, how-to, read, self-publishing
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Author Spotlight: Bess McBride
Bess McBride is the latest Author Spotlight on my Examiner column! I’ve started an exciting new interview format.
http://www.examiner.com/article/seattle-author-spotlight-bess-mcbride
Categories: Examiner
Tags: Author, books, Examiner, interview, reading, Romance, seattle, self-publishing
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Choosing how to publish
Choosing how to publish. An Examiner article about questions every author must answer.
Categories: Examiner
Tags: Author, books, literary agent, market, promotion, publicity, publishing, self-publishing
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Seattle and Amazon.com
Seattle and Amazon.com: An informative breakdown of the important relationship between Seattle and Amazon.
Categories: Examiner
Tags: Amazon, CreateSpace, Examiner, headquarters, Kindle, Print-on-demand, seattle, self-publishing
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Pricing a Book
OK! Some of you who have been reading my posts might say, “Kate! You hypocrite! You said you loved the 99 cent ebook and then you priced your book at $2.99! What’s wrong with you?”
Yes, I did say I believed in the 99 cent ebook and I still do. But there is a reason I’ve done such a crazy thing as price my book higher. Discounts.
If I price my book at 99 cents, there is no way for me to get the attention that comes from discounting my books. I’m at the bottom and the last step is free. SO! I’m pricing at $2.99 now and then discounting a few times until it goes to 99 cents. Unless it sells like crazy and then we’ll see. I’m not going to mess with something that’s working.
Do you get my plan though?
Categories: My Books
Tags: books, discount, marketing, pricing, promotion, self-publishing
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Self-publishing : What an author should and shouldn’t do
Categories: Examiner
Tags: authors, books, editing, how-to, publicity, self-publishing, social media
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Preconceptions about self-publishing and promotion
Preconceptions about self-publishing and promotion.
This was my first Examiner article. Aaaww! Isn’t it cute!
Categories: Examiner
Tags: Author, errors, preconceptions, promotion, self-publishing, social media, Writing
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Things That Upset Authors
I’ve finally plugged into a few online author communities. It took me awhile, but I’m part of the conversation now. During my forays, I’ve noticed that there are some things that really infuriate authors.
Categories: Publicity
Tags: annoy, Author, books, etiquette, pet peeve, publishing, rude, self-publishing, Writing
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