Book MarketingAugust 3, 2026
Four hundred photographs is not a book and it is not a slideshow. A photograph book needs a spine, twenty to forty images doing real work, and text that says what the picture cannot. The common failure is publishing all…
Book MarketingAugust 3, 2026
Mirror Lake Community Library is a Carnegie library that opened on December 1, 1915 with 2,600 books, one of only ten in Florida, built in Beaux-Arts style. On the National Register since 1986. Story times, therapy dog reading sessions, ESL…
Book MarketingAugust 2, 2026
Two literary magazines are published in this region and both take submissions. Saw Palm, run by graduate students at USF, publishes work connected to Florida and reads from July to October. Tampa Review, published by the University of Tampa since…
Book MarketingAugust 2, 2026
Most first-time authors budget for the writing and nothing else. The writing is rarely the largest line.
Book MarketingAugust 2, 2026
The Story Garden sells children's books and nothing else, from the ground floor of a two-storey house on 14th Street North. The owner is a former primary teacher, and the free Wednesday story time is built around letting children move…
Book MarketingAugust 1, 2026
The President Barack Obama Main Library is St. Petersburg's main branch, recently reopened after renovation, and one of only two libraries in the county open seven days a week. A real coffee shop inside, bookable study rooms and meeting rooms,…
Book MarketingAugust 1, 2026
The Book Lounge opened on Central Avenue in November 2025, run by a mother and daughter. New fiction only, weighted to romance and romantasy, with wine on tap, charcuterie, and more than a hundred board games. Every book carries a…
Book MarketingAugust 1, 2026
Tim Dorsey wrote 26 novels about a Florida serial killer with a moral code, and researched every one like history. He wrote the first while working nights at the Tampa Tribune, sent an agent the whole manuscript instead of a…
Book MarketingAugust 1, 2026
The Dunedin History Museum sits in a 1924 Atlantic Coast Line railroad depot, costs five dollars, and holds the complete Dunedin Times from 1924 to 1966, with the run to 1965 available online and searchable by word and date.
Book MarketingJuly 31, 2026
The Barbara S. Ponce Public Library in Pinellas Park holds 314 reviews and the children's wing is the reason. Fine motor toys, art stations, a play kitchen, daily crafts and story times with puppets and bubbles. It also still has…
Book MarketingJuly 31, 2026
A binder is complete, unstructured and built for searching. A book is selective, structured and built for reading by somebody who never met the subject. Deciding which one you are making, before you start writing, determines whether the project ends.
Book MarketingJuly 31, 2026
Book and Bottle at 17 6th Street North is a bookstore, wine bar, bottle shop, and coffee cafe in one room. Terra Dunham spent fourteen months building it and opened three days before Florida shut down in March 2020.
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