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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...

Book Promotion Made Easy

Promoting a book has always been one of the most elusive skills for authors to master. However, the fledging self-publishing industry exposed many of the tricks that authors can use to promote their books. The following are some great ways to increase your readership and...

Book Promotion Tactics Before The Book Deal

Only a handful of authors are sure that they will get book deals after finishing their books. The majority of authors have to do a great deal of promotion before people start to recognize them and their works. Even authors with book deals sometimes have...

Maintaining The Momentum After You Launch Your Book

When you launch a book, there is usually a lot of buzz about it but if you are not careful, people might soon forget about it. Your promotional campaign should not end when you launch the book. On the contrary, when the book is launched,...

Book Marketing Techniques That Work

After finishing a book, authors usually wonder if they should publish their own work or if they should go to traditional publishers. Publishing books is easier than it was years ago and more authors are self-publishing. The following are some of the ways that authors...

Seven Tips for Marketing Books Online

The Internet is a crucial venue for marketing books. Here, you have multiple opportunities to reach readers from all over the world and to promote your books for free. But getting online marketing right can be tricky. If you’re a self-published author, you can still...

Things That Indie Authors Excel At

Many assumptions that people have about self-published authors are not accurate. The motivation for many people who self-publish is usually to complete their books and improve their future discoverability. Not all self-published authors are in it for the money. Also, many self-published authors like to...

How to Organize a Book Signing Event

Learning how to organize a book signing event is a skill authors need, not only to sell books or sell themselves as writers, but to connect with their audience as well. Here are a few things you need to know to organize a book signing...

How to Organize an Author Book Tour

Before organizing an author book tour, it is necessary to know why it is done and what is a book tour in general. Because books reach out to readers in one way or another, readers also want to meet the person who gave life to...

What Are the Best Ways to Get Your Book Out There?

You may have written a good book. However, it does not end there, especially if you want to earn a living by writing. The next step you need to do is to make it available to readers. The question is what are the best ways...

What Are the Best Sites to Use When Creating a Website to Sell Your Books?

There are thousands of books published every day, but not all of the books printed are sold. They are just on the shelves, waiting for a hand to reach out and buy them. Worse, they just remain in stock. In the traditional book selling industry,...