Want to get your self-publishing efforts launched in full glory? Now through the end of June you can get valuable Outskirts Press Amazon Kindle publishing services for FREE when you publish using our Diamond or Pearl publishing packages. The Amazon Extreme Package puts together three valuable Amazon-centric services into one convenient bundle: 1) an Amazon … Continue reading Get Valuable Book-Selling Benefits with Amazon Extreme — FREE When You Publish in June
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Today marks the 43rd annual Earth Day celebration, a day when we all stop to appreciate our natural resources and gain awareness about preserving them for future generations. In 1970 when the first Earth Day was celebrated, most Americans were tooling around in leaded-gas-chugging cars past industrial plants that spewed waste from smokestacks and pipes. … Continue reading Honor Earth Day by Going Green with eBooks, Print-on-Demand
The Amazon Extreme Marketing Package from Outskirts Press offers self-publishing authors a head start on book marketing by taking triple advantage of the immense audience of Amazon.com, the largest online retailer in the United States. These valuable, popular options are free for authors who start self-publishing in April. Outskirts Press, the fastest growing self-publishing and book marketing company, … Continue reading Three Free Amazon Marketing Options Prepare Self-Publishing Authors for Success
Outskirts Press enjoys helping self-published authors realize their greatest creative ambitions. After all, publishing a book is a huge accomplishment, so you'll pardon us if we take a moment to sing the praises of our independent authors in our weekly Self-Publishing Book Spotlight. This week we’re proud to feature another of our self-published authors, Lonnie Beerman and his … Continue reading Self-Publishing Book Spotlight: ‘Tears of the Phoenix’ by Lonnie Beerman
Two Ways Barnes & Noble Can Help You Sell Your Self-Published Book Barnes & Noble is one of the most powerful booksellers in the country. Even with the popularity of Amazon, many readers still turn to Barnes & Noble for their book purchasing needs. As a self-published author, understanding the options available through Barnes & … Continue reading Two Ways Barnes & Noble Can Help You Sell Your Self-Published Book
Author David Brookover may be relatively new to publishing novels, but he's far from inexperienced. The 65-year-old former English teacher has released his sixth novel through Outskirts Press since retiring in 2011 and is gearing up for a seventh. Two of his other novels, Mortal Eclipse and The Ancient Breed, garnered critical acclaim and featured … Continue reading Author Spotlight: New Character, Big Twists in David Brookover’s ‘Ghostworld’
A few of you may remember the "serials," at the local movie theater: short chapter plays before the feature film that left you with a thrilling cliffhanger you couldn't wait to see resolved. Before television series gain popularity in the 1950s, movie serials brought patrons to the theater in droves. A century earlier, Charles Dickens … Continue reading Healthy Serial: Amazon Revives the Serial Novel Format
Three Ways Amazon Helps you Sell Your Self-Published Books Amazon is the single largest book retailer and understanding how you can maximize their offerings will help you maximize your books sales. 1) Amazon Search Inside the Book:This is the online equivalent to flipping through your book on the shelf. An optional feature, “Look Inside” provides … Continue reading Maximize Your Self-Published Book Sales on Amazon
In the science fiction book The Young Guardians and the Great Darkness, four teenage outcasts encounter forces that expose their mystic inner powers. It's a fanciful story, but one, perhaps, many of us can relate to. And none so much as author Grady Brown himself. The Outskirts Press author, 23, of Tustin, California, was recently … Continue reading Author Spotlight: Young Sci-fi Writer Profiled in OC Register
When new authors first begin to contemplate self-publishing a book, visions of that thick, solid, hardcover volume must surely dance in their heads. Nothing beats the sensation of holding your first book in your hands and cracking the crisp pages for the first time. But it's important for authors in this modern book publishing climate … Continue reading Virtual Reality in the Hardcopy World