Karen's blog: bookbaby newsletters

Sunday, 5 November 2017

bookbaby newsletters

Here are the latest bookbaby newsletters for my followers to peruse:

I hope you’re one of the hundreds of aspiring and published authors who have come to Philadelphia for the Independent Authors Conference. We’ve just kicked off the event with a great keynote talk by Lee Wind, Director of Marketing and Programming for the Independent Book Publishers Association, and the few dozen amazing presentations and panels that follow will make for a great opening day!

If you’re not here, you can follow the conference on Twitter (#IndieAuthorCon) and then make plans to come to next year’s event. (Psst, it’s going to take place on November 2nd-4th, 2018 in Philly. You’re the first to know!)

A lot of important information is going to be shared by our speakers today. So I thought I’d go back into our BookBaby blog archives and present what’s probably the best advice I’ve ever shared with self-published authors. It has to do with your book distribution. My main point: “Less is more” is a cute phrase for minimalists. But when it comes to book distribution, the words for self-published authors to live by are: “More is more!” You can read all about it here.

I know I’ve missed Halloween by a couple of days, but if you’re still in the mood for a monstrously good time, did you know that the man who played Herman Munster in the old TV show “The Munsters” also wrote and illustrated children’s books? Have a look here.

All the best,

Steven Spatz
President, BookBaby

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