What influenced you to create a video book trailer? I believe it's a means to share the vision about your book with readers. It can be another promotional tool in your arsenal but is more about rousing interest in fans than selling the book. What was your experience with creating your trailer? I used Windows Movie Maker and had done these before, so it was a familiar process but time-consuming. What advice would you give to an author considering getting a video trailer created? If you … [Read more...]
BookGoodies and Little Free Libraries
Little Free Libraries are popping up all over like this one that BookGoodies and AwesomeGang donated some books to today: https://www.facebook.com/annaslittlefreelibrary/ We have another friend starting one in a couple of weeks that will be looking for books if any of my author friends are interested in donating a book or two. The city of Tempe, Arizona will be encouraging residents to set them up and are offering up to a $300 reimbursement towards getting one going. There is more … [Read more...]
Bestselling Books on Amazon in 2015
The best-selling book of the year is Paula Hawkins’ addictive page-turner, The Girl on the Train followed by Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian by E.L. James. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book Ten: Old School, by the perennial favorite Jeff Kinney, is the best-selling Kids & Teens book and What Pet Should I Get? by Dr. Seuss is number two. Harper Lee’s hotly anticipated second novel, Go Set a Watchman, was the Most Gifted Book of the year. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, was also … [Read more...]
Reader Survey and Giveaway 2015
This giveaway has ended but check out our Giveaways Category to find our current giveaways! It's survey time! Give us your opinions and feedback in our Reader's Survey and be entered to win a $75 Amazon Gift Card... how cool is that??? Make sure you do actually fill out the survey or all your entries will be deleted. Nobody wants that. Are you an Author? We have a special giveaway for you too - enter the Author Giveaway here. a Rafflecopter giveaway … [Read more...]
Win a 6 month subscription to Kindle Unlimited
Win a 6 month subscription to Kindle Unlimited valued at $59.94 - we'd give away free books but we don't have to! You can download all the books you want as part of your subscription. Our 6 month prize can be used for a new subscription or to extend your current one. a Rafflecopter giveaway … [Read more...]
Mystery Books Giveaway and a Gift Card
Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card from Mystery Reads! Love mysteries? Thrilled by thrillers? Suspense keeps you on your toes? Join our email list for the latest and greatest books and be entered to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card. And we are giving away an ebook from our website! Actually for every 1000 entries we will randomly give away an ebook from our site! Send your friends to enter so we can give away more books :) a Rafflecopter giveaway … [Read more...]
Southwest Books and an Amazon Gift Card
Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card or one of our awesome photography books for your ebook reader - a coffee table book on your Kindle or iPad or Phone. a Rafflecopter giveaway … [Read more...]
Create a Create Space Discount Code
For those of you with eBooks and POD print books at Create Space here is how to make a discount coupon code for your book on Create Space. Benefit? You can offer a discount direct on CreateSpace and still make what you would if the book sells at a higher price on Amazon. Put it in your ebooks, especially when they are going on free promo to punch up sales of print books. Here's a video showing you exactly how to create one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8kHLWwvI6Q From the … [Read more...]
Author Giveaway!
We have lots of giveaways for readers, here is a special one just for authors! Win a $50 Amazon Gift Card or one of 10 one month ads on the BookGoodies home page. Be sure to fill out the author survey and join our author email list (form is below the giveaway). a Rafflecopter giveaway … [Read more...]
Building Amazing Author Websites: The Absolute Necessities by Deborah Carney
Below is the presentation I did for the Author Marketing Institute's AMLive Virtual event in January. Enjoy! Your website needs to represent you as if you were standing in a bookstore selling your books, doing a reading from your books or were at a book signing. Feel free to post questions in the comments and we will use them to create another webinar in the future. … [Read more...]
Featured Bargain Book: DeathByte by DS Kane
About DeathByte by DS Kane $0.99 from 01/20/2015 through 01/22/2015 When the plans to a new device that could change the course of world politics forever is stolen, every country goes looking. It’s going to be a free-for-all. When someone breaks into William Wing's Hong Kong apartment and steals the hard drives from his computer, it sets several intelligence services searching for the plans to a new device that could change the course of world politics forever. Wing's worst fears, … [Read more...]
Deborah Carney and Vinny O’Hare Speaking at Author Marketing Live 2014
BookGoodies' Deborah Carney and Awesome Gang's Vinny O'Hare spoke at the inaugural Author Marketing Live event in September 2014. Their topic was Social Media for authors. The videos have limited access, but we have permission to share with our authors! Tell us what you think about it in the comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zmIXk9P5pw Author Marketing Live! Virtual Book Summit is a learning and networking event for new and experienced authors who want learn the best strategic … [Read more...]
