Your friend is a writer. You love your friend and you want to support their interests, but you don’t know what their specific plans are. After all, a gift subscription to Writer’s Market only works if they are planning to look for an agent and maybe your friend wants to self-publish. In the same vein, [...]
26May09
I would’ve prefered my book hadn’t been selected for listing on Amazon.com’s Marketplace, Lulu
In the musical The Producers, there is a very funny part when a choir of obnoxious sounding old ladies start to sing over-the-top back up to what Nathan Lane is singing and he turns to them in despair and pleas as only Nathan Lane can, “Don’t help me.”
That is exactly how I felt when [...]
The Amazon Search Inside the Book program is a free program that provides a preview of your book on the Amazon site that is designed to entice buyers to purchase your book by letting them browse it as they would in a physical bookstore. The pages of the book appear with watermarks on them to [...]
10Mar09
Publishing on Amazon’s Kindle: Author Gregory Bernard Banks shares his insights & experience
As regular readers of The Whine Seller know, I like to write from personal experience. So, with publishing on Amazon’s Kindle getting a lot of attention lately, I realized I wasn’t going to be able to give this topic the attention it deserved since I have not yet published anything on the platform. Instead, I [...]
