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Book Review & Contest Insights from Real Reviews and Submissions

What separates great books from the rest? Below are articles with insights from real reviews and contest submissions—what works, what doesn’t, and how to improve your book. You’ll also find a wide range of articles covering writing, publishing, marketing, and more. Each article has a Comments section so you can read advice from other authors and leave your own.

Why Some Books Win Awards (And Most Don’t) — Insights From Real Contest Submissions New!

What separates award-winning books from the rest? After evaluating contest submissions across a wide range of genres, certain patterns become clear. Some books consistently rise to the top. Others, even with strong ideas and clear effort behind them, fall short. The difference is rarely dramatic—it...

What We’ve Learned From Reviewing Hundreds of Thousands of Books (And Why Most Don’t Stand Out) New!

After reviewing and evaluating books across thousands of submissions over the past two decades, certain patterns become impossible to ignore. Some books immediately stand out to reviewers. Others—even well-intentioned ones—fade into the middle or fall short. The difference is rarely luck. It comes down to...

5 Free Ways to Promote your Blog

Once you have found your niche, visit other blog sites in your niche and share with them what you know. Get them to want to look at your blog site as well. If you show them that you can offer them unique and helpful content, they'll be eager to share your blog link with other, and bloggers from other sites might be inclined to link with your blog.

Social Media Elements

Always remember that a great way to promote your blog for free is to share your content on social media sites like Facebook. Twitter, Pinterest, Google +, among others. In this way you can get more traffic to your blog through the recommendations of others on social sites.

Forums Are Your Friends

Participate in market-related forums which are in your niche. Interact with the participants and share your work and knowledge. Remember that if the target audience of the community online likes your content, they will be more than glad to share it with others.

Grouping Together

Join groups with similar interests to yours on places like Google + and LinkedIn, and on these groups you can introduce your blog and even share some material. In this way, the people in these groups will comment on what you have shared and you will know if your content is well liked or not. In turn they will visit your blog site and if they like what they see they'll pass the word on to others, drawing more readers to your site.

Stay On Top of Things

Always keep a lookout for more ways to promote your blog content. You might prefer to send out a newsletter which informs everyone about your blog site and provides examples of your work. Add in plenty of colorful images and you'll get people interested. They'll go to your blog site and they'll like what they see.

Research A Lot

Do your homework and make your decisions about drawing more traffic to your blog site. You can mix and match all of the possible things that you can do and see what works and what doesn't. Keep improving on the things that start bringing in more traffic. As you get more readers, always think of more creative ways to keep them coming back to your blog time and time again. Keep coming up with new and creative content and take a look online at what others are doing. You want to make your blog site stand out, not follow along with the crowd.