Question of the Week: What kind of prize would you need up for grabs to sign up for a $99 traditional publishing contest and why?
Summary: Michael Lister revisited the show to discuss his USA Today bestseller play, and Jim and Bryan talked reviews, discount rants, and Google indifference in the latest episode. After thanking their patron Nora Remenia (and her book Guerrilla Tactics Against Passive Aggression http://bit.ly/passagress ), the triple threat twosome tackled tips on domains, email signatures, and post scheduling. News stories included testimonial contests, book review aggregators, trad pub print stats, discounting doubters, and Google’s indifference to selling more books. This week’s Question of the Week: What kind of prize would you need up for grabs to sign up for a $99 traditional publishing contest and why?
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What You’ll Learn:
- How to pick the perfect domain name for your author brand
- How to create a professional, personal email signature
- How to schedule your posts ahead of time and be more efficient
- Why authors should think long and hard about submitting to BookLife’s contest
- Why a new critique website claims to be Rotten Tomatoes for books
- How Jane Friedman debunked the myth of print’s resurgence
- Why one author wants readers to boycott discounted books
- Why Apple and Google don’t care about selling books
Links:
Guerrilla Tactics Against Passive Aggression
Ninety-Nine Dollars and a Blurb is Won
Question of the Week: What kind of prize would you need up for grabs to sign up for a $99 traditional publishing contest and why?