I just stumbled across an interesting Yahoo Group today. Here are the details:

This group focuses on book marketing, promotion, and publicity. In other words, How do authors go about finding readers and building their fan bases?

This is an international group of authors, publishers, editors, publicists and other involved in the book industry. Posts primarily deal with the final stages of book production and pre- and post-release marketing strategies. All questions relating to traditional, self-published print or ebooks are warmly encouraged.

Feel free to post tips, innovative promotions, new marketing avenues and, by all means, share your successes to inspire others. Please do not post excerpt texts, instead post a URL where your excerpt can be found.

Debate is a great thing provided we all remember that we're on the same side. Flaming is not allowed. We're all here to learn.

I just signed up for membership myself, so we might see each other over there.

Tags: Yahoo, Self publishing, Author Self help

Yes, it is that time of year again and royalty cheques are being sent out. And once more we can see the difference between self publishing authors who are actively marketing their books and those who don't - and it's in the size of their cheques. As many of you know, we are now giving away free author websites, with a personal domain registered and pre-loaded with an installation of WordPress, an easy to use blogging software, to help authors get a bigger readership for their books. We are now extending this offer to our existing authors. Just let us know you're interested and send an email to our support team. We'll get your domain registered and your site up and running in no time at all.

And yes, it's free. How about it?

PS: This is the last time royalties are being paid in September. From 2008 the pay dates are January and June.

Tags: Wordpress, blogging, Self publishing