The Tampa Bay Book Festival Calendar
Tampa Bay runs a real literary calendar: a free four-day international book fair in Ybor City, an antiquarian fair, a university festival, and three community events built around local authors.
Tag: Publishing
Getting a book into the world is its own craft, separate from writing it. These articles cover how publishing really works: what traditional publishers look for, how book deals get made, what a proposal has to prove, and when self publishing or a sponsorship model serves the author better. Written from real experience placing books and guiding authors through the decision.
Book MarketingThe Truth About Bookstore Signings
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.
Authority Through AuthorshipHow to Get Your Book Onto Pinellas Library Shelves
Library talks are the easiest events a local author can get, and the audiences engage harder than bookstore crowds. Getting into the collection is a separate process with different rules.
Book MarketingGetting Your Book Into a Tampa Bay Bookstore
Tampa Bay still has a real independent bookstore scene, and each shop takes local books differently. The thing that decides whether any of them can stock you is how your book is printed.
AEOWhy a Book Is the Strongest AEO Asset You Can Build
Answer engines have a problem. They have to decide who to name, and almost everything they can read about you was written by you. A book is the only thing you make that gets independently recorded by organizations with no…
Book WritingWhat a Book Costs Before Anybody Buys One
Most first-time authors budget for the writing and nothing else. The writing is rarely the largest line.
AEOWho Is Counting the AI Slop?
LinkedIn added an option on July 30 letting members flag posts as AI slop, and removed its own AI writing tool the same day. It arrived alongside studies putting AI content on the platform anywhere between 41 and 81 per…
AEOMost of Your Website Traffic Was Never Human. I Checked.
Cloudflare found human traffic down at least 35 per cent across every major industry in under a year, and more than half of all internet traffic is now non-human. This week I filtered my own site properly and checked the…
AI and WritingSuperintelligence for Everyone: What Zuckerberg’s Argument Misses About Books
Mark Zuckerberg argues in the Wall Street Journal that superintelligence should be widely distributed, and builds the case on a thought experiment about lawyers. The argument holds in a courtroom, where a judge must decide. It breaks on a bookshelf,…
Book WritingThree of My Books Should Not Exist
Not because they were badly made. Because the reason for making them was wrong, and no amount of craft fixes that.
Book WritingOne Book Answers a Question. A Series Answers the Next One.
A reader who finishes a book you wrote has just told you something. A series is the only format that responds to it.
Authority Through AuthorshipThe Hiccup of Hesitation: Beating the Fear That Stalls First-Time Authors
The thing that stops most first-time authors is not the writing or the publishing. It is fear, and it shows up as a small hesitation at the exact moment action is needed. Here is the simple practice for beating it,…