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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...

Does Email Marketing Help Blogs?

You can use your email marketing tool in order to push your new blot posts out to your list automatically. After you publish a new post manually, don't forget to send an email broadcast to your list which includes a teaser sentence or two referring...

Backlinking Your Blog and How It Helps

A link that will send traffic to your website is a good backlink. It doesn't matter if the link is dofollow, nofollow or redirect, just as long as it sends new visitors to your website, the link is good. Therefore it is important to find...

Attracting The Right Traffic To Your Blog Through Your Writing

There are many different kinds of methods that people use to attract traffic to their blog. Some methods work better than others. Depending on what you are writing about, mention someone who is a well-known figure in your niche and in turn the mentioned person...

Learn to Engage Your Readers

As an author, your relationship with your audience doesn't end after they've bought your book. You have to learn to engage your readers and build rapport with them. Engaging your readers is a great way to create a valuable connection between you and your audience...

Tips on Selling Your Book

In more ways than one, writers whose works are picked up by major publishing outfits need to worry less than their self-publishing counterparts.  Many writers who have decided to go the self-publishing route often find themselves grappling with the intricacies of promoting and marketing their own work,...

The Top Five Ways in Which the Media Can Increase Book Sales

When trying to sell your book the media really can be your best friend. You just need to know how best to approach them and how they can best help you. Here are five top tips. Writing a piece about you as an author One of the...

How to Use the Media in Selling Your Book

You have just published your first book and now the difficult part is here and you need to sell it. However, in order for you to do so you need to promote it and in order for you to promote it you need the help...

Creating an Engaging Author Blog

Author blogs can help to increase book sales. Creating an engaging author blog is a good way of generating extra book sales. Although this is not guaranteed it is worth doing, even if you only sell one more book. It is beneficial as it will...

Can Writing a Blog Help Sell Your Book?

There is much debate as to whether an author blog can help increase book sales. What the author blog does do is increase web traffic to their author website which in turn can direct viewers to where they can buy the book. So the real...

How to Organize a Book Signing Event When You Are an Independent Author

You want to host a book signing event, but how exactly do you go about this? You are, after all, a writer and not a publicist. The first thing to note is that setting up a book signing event as an independent author can be extremely...