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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. Below that are hundreds of articles on topics all authors face in today’s literary landscape. Get help and advice on Writing, Marketing, Publishing, Social Networking 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...

Tips for Authors to Use Twitter Effectively

Social networks have been proven and widely adopted as mainstream forms of online marketing and communication. Authors are now using websites such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to communicate with their audience, fellow authors, and other people in the publishing industry. Using Twitter for...

Social Media Tips for Using Twitter and Facebook

One of the tools that authors can use to promote their books is social media. Indie authors in particular have a lot riding on social media to tell people about their books. If an indie author joins social media websites during the day of a...

Five Affordable Marketing Strategies For Authors In Social Media

Most authors know the basics of incorporating social media presence in their publishing strategy to increase readership. However, there are other things that authors can do apart from building websites, creating twitter accounts, and Facebook fan pages. The following are five strategies that authors can...

Ultimate Plan For Authors To Maximize Their Social Media Presence

If you were an author, what would you do to squeeze every last bit of usefulness from social media websites? There is no formula for making social websites work for you as an author. However, there are some rules that you can follow to put...

Which Are The Best Social Networks For Authors?

Social media allows authors to talk with their readers, pick their readers’ minds, and empathize with them. Authors wish that there was a single website where they could handle all interactions with their readers, but this still remains a pipe dream. To maximize the benefits...

Eight Social Media Tips For Authors To Get Great Results In The Shortest Time

Unfortunately, there are still many authors struggling to understand social media and to figure out if it is worth their attention. Some of these authors are close to figuring out how to make social media work for them and all they need is a nudge...

Ways That Indie Authors Are Using Social Media To Boost Income

Indie authors often find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place in matters pertaining to book discovery. However, more and more ways for readers to discover books are coming up. This means that the opportunities to get a book in front of readers...

Social Media Tips That Every Author Should Consider

One of the factors that publishers use to decide whether or not they will buy an author’s book is the author’s marketing platform. People often think that traditional publishers are satisfied with using their marketing channels alone. However, this is not true – the person...

How Can Authors Use Facebook To Promote Their Books?

Facebook now has more than one billion active monthly users and if it were a country it would be the third largest in the world. The sheer number of people that use this social website is mind boggling and any author would pay an arm...

3 Myths Authors Have About Social Media

Social media has been cited as one of the ways that people in any industry can use to improve their businesses. The advice about social media on the web has ballooned to unfathomable proportions. Authors are among the people who are constantly looking to improve...