Ryan Frawley

It’s important when promoting your book to get reviews, from credible reviewers. But remember this: credible reviewers are only credible because there’s no guarantee they’ll like what you wrote. Some may hate it. Some reviewers who don’t like your book will simply refuse to review it. Others will give negative reviews. You can imagine my feelings when I read this little beauty: http://backlisted.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/review-scar-by-ryan-frawley/ Firstly, he didn’t even fin

Come closer. Closer. Listen. I’m going to tell you a secret. Are you ready? Nobody really knows how to sell books. Oh, lots of people will say that they do. Some people have made a living out of claiming to have the secret. Big publishers exist purely to sell books, and make millions, so they must know, right? Wrong. 70 per cent of books make a loss. Think about what that means, especially when the average advance for a first book is $5000. Most books make less than that. And

“Do you want to spend 80% of 80% of your time Facebooking about cats in the hope that you’ll make a 2.12% increase in sales on a book you had to write in 18 days?” I read this article – ironically enough, I found it on Twitter – and I have to say, my own experience backs this up. I’m glad someone was willing to come out and say it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/30/tweet-about-cats-just-write