Book MarketingThe Clearwater Main Library is a landmark building with maker studios, a digitization station, and a harbor view. It is also closed on weekends, and part of it may become something else.
Book MarketingThe East Lake Community Library in Palm Harbor is where the East Lake Writers' Workshop met, in a side room off the main floor, and where I sat every other week for years while Deanna Bennett ran the table.
Book MarketingOld posts lose traffic quietly, on two separate clocks: the slow slide down search rankings, and the newer one where a page keeps its ranking and stops being cited in AI answers. Here is how to audit both and repair…
Book MarketingAn author watched the KDP page tracker show a reviewer quit at page 100 of 280, then rate the whole book. Goodreads has no gate. A star from someone who read a sample counts the same as one from someone…
Book MarketingA commenter put the trap in one line: they take your book, let the trolls trash it, and will not let you remove it. Why Goodreads is easy to enter and impossible to leave.
Book MarketingA commenter went looking for somewhere else to go and found nowhere. Amazon swallowed Shelfari, owns Goodreads, and left authors with no alternative that has any reach.
Book MarketingOne author found Goodreads listing eight editions of a book that had four, another found every new title assigned to a stranger. Why the platform gets your book data wrong and locks you out of fixing it.
Book MarketingHover a Goodreads star and it tells you what it means. Almost nobody rates that way or reads them that way. Why the same star means three different things to Goodreads, to authors, and to readers.
Book MarketingThe first month of a book project is mostly interviews and one structural decision, and having the writer twenty minutes away changes the mechanics, not the price. Sessions happen at your table with your objects in the room.
Book MarketingBookends opened in 2026 at 2208 East 2nd Avenue in Ybor City after four years, a fourteen month permitting fight, and a grant that nearly vanished. Sisters Laurie and Teresa Rodriguez traded from a mobile bookstore the whole time.
Book MarketingLibrary Friends groups take donations and sell them to fund programming, and several have permanent drop points including a drive-up slot at Palm Harbor. Used bookshops buy selectively. Nobody wants encyclopedias, textbooks past their edition, or anything damp.
Book MarketingThe John F. Germany Public Library is the research library for this region. Four floors, and on the fourth one of the largest genealogy collections in the southeastern United States plus more than twenty thousand Burgert Brothers photographs of Tampa…
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