In writing my book, I’ve spent quite a bit of time testing various blog platforms to recommend to authors. During the last month, I’ve set up blogs on the following platforms:

Blogger.com (Google)
Typepad.com
Wordpress.com

LiveJournal.com is a popular platform as well, but it is very similar to Typepad.com so I saved myself some time by focusing on these [...]

Authors are always looking for an impartial, 3rd party review of their books. Sure, you can send 50 copies out to newspaper book reviewers and join “the pile” on their desks. Or, you can hire someone to write a review online through ReviewMe.com!
ReviewMe.com is a marketplace for bloggers that have an expertise in a particular [...]

Ever wonder how much web traffic the other authors get? “They said they get thousands of hits a month, their web site must be smokin’!” You probably think that just because an author is well-known, has a publisher, or does a lot of book signings that they have an equally as busy web site. Here’s [...]

I spoke with Sony today about their recently launched eBook Reader and they seem to be getting a lot of positive press. It seems that eBook readers of old have had problems with adoption by the public, but the new Sony eBook Reader is approaching this a little different. First, they made the Reader about [...]

Amway meets the book industry: Bookwise. Best-selling author Richard Paul Evans (”The Christmas Box”) and financial advisor and author Robert Allen have teamed up to offer an online book club that offers members discounted books, live webcasts with national authors, best-selling author seminars, tax help, etc. Cost is $35 to get in the door and [...]

I was recently at the San Diego State University Writers’ Conference giving my talk on “Leveraging the Internet to Market Your Book” when a lightbulb went off in my head. Over the past 10 years, I’ve tried to stay up with the growth, adoption, and technology around the Internet as more of a hobby than [...]

Thanks to my friend Joe Wikert, I can now describe the type of publishing atGeist and atFishers provides: Blog-esque. I’ve struggled with how to describe the type of publication we print for three years. We aren’t your typical journalists since it is all community driven. We don’t tell both sides of a story, we don’t [...]