Book MarketingAugust 21, 2026
The store will usually say yes if your book is orderable through the standard channel. Then nobody comes unless you bring them. The signing is not the marketing; it is where the marketing gets photographed.
Book MarketingAugust 21, 2026
Tampa Bay has more working media than most metro areas its size. None of them want to hear that your book is out. All of them want a story, and your book is the credential instead of the subject.
Book MarketingAugust 21, 2026
Old 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 MarketingAugust 16, 2026
An 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 MarketingAugust 16, 2026
A 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 MarketingAugust 16, 2026
A 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 MarketingAugust 16, 2026
One 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 MarketingAugust 16, 2026
Hover 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.
Artificial IntelligenceAugust 12, 2026
A hundred blog posts feel like more than one book. To an answer engine, it is the reverse. A book is one signal it can verify. A hundred posts are noise it cannot attribute.
Artificial IntelligenceAugust 11, 2026
A third of my new business this year came because ChatGPT recommended me by name. The reason it picks some experts and ignores others is not luck. It is authority it can read.
Book MarketingAugust 8, 2026
113+ books published. Thousands in ads run. Launches that worked and launches that flopped. This is what book marketing looks like, from someone who lived bot
BusinessAugust 8, 2026
Turn writing into income. Market research, publishing systems, platform building, scam avoidance. From an author who left corporate at 53 and published 113+ b
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