Learn what it takes to write your own books and turn this into a business.

Don't sabotage your book campaign before you even get started

Your book isn't bland - - why should your marketing campaign be boring?

Easy ways to get even more book sales

To publish a book is to become immortal. Why? Because your name and most importantly, your ideas will live on even when you are no longer physically here on earth.

There's nothing like a few reject notes to have you reaching for the bottle. Convincing an editor that your work is worth publishing may seem harder than eating bottled fruitcake with a straw. Why not try convincing someone else! Me for instance....

Finding your target audience can be as simple as searching for keywords and phrases on the Internet or as detailed as doing research offline at the library. Either way, here are a few ways to make the process easier for you to determine if a market exists for your book idea.

With the large increase of books being published by self-publishers, and the up-rise of print on demand, there is still a lot of death taking place in the publishing industry. Thus far, 175,000 books have been published in 2005.

You've just published your book, and now it's time to promote it. There are many resources available to guide you in the best ways to do this, and they all say part of good marketing is to have a website ? but they don't tell you what to do with the site to make it work for you. The goal is to get the most exposure with the least effort on your part ? here's how to do it.

Approximately 20% of the cost of your book is the paper. The type of paper you select can affect the price but more importantly it will affect the perception of its value to your customers. This article will give you a better idea how paper is classified in North America and should make talking with your printer a little easier.