James Patterson’s Bookstore Bailout: Planning for the Future or Living in the Past?

Best-selling author James Patterson recently pledged $1 million dollars of his own money to independent bookstores all over the country.

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An Open Letter to Those Coming to J.K. Rowling’s Defense

To all who gave revenge 1-star reviews of Lynn Shepherd’s books on Amazon: Please take them down.

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12 Things We Learned at the 2013 Writer’s Digest Conference West

It’s a week after the Writer’s Digest Conference and our heads are still spinning.

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What to do When You Get a Bad Review

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Guest Post from Nikki N. Robinson: Less is More–Cut Back on the Free Promotions for Better Results

If you’ve published or want to publish on Amazon’s Kindle platform, you may already know about KDP Select promotions.

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More E-book Drama! Amazon and the Big 6 (3?) Sued by Indie Bookstores over E-book Sales

Yesterday, it was announced that three independent bookstores—Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, Fiction Addiction, and Posman Books—filed a suit against Amazon and the “Big 6” (3?) publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, Random House, and Simon & Schuster) over Amazon’s monopoly over e-book sales due to DRM.

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5 Things on the New Year’s “To-Do” List for Every Purpose-Driven Author

I know–you’re not even through the “holidays” yet, and you’re just feeling like you finally have a grasp on your “to-do” list for the next week and a half.

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The Secret to Becoming an Amazon Bestseller in 4 Fool-Proof Steps

This guest post is by Ken Thurber, author of Big Wave Surfing and Do NOT Invent Buggy Whips Many authors hope that their book will become a bestseller.

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