Here's this week's Featured Book-of-the-Week available now on Amazon.com! Footsteps in the Dark: Stories of the Bizarre and Unusual by Carlo Armenise (4.5 Stars - 8 Customer Reviews) Price: $14.95 Carlo Armenise's "Footsteps in the Dark: Stories of the Bizarre and Unusual" is an engaging and intriguing collection of eight supernatural/horror short stories, with a … Continue reading Amazon Featured Book of the Week
Month: April 2018
With the abundance of self-published authors, you have to come up with creative ways to market a self-published book. While book tours are a great way to connect with your readers, they aren't the most affordable method of promotion. However, technology has made it possible for an alternative. Take note from self-publishing Outskirts Press author, … Continue reading Conquer Life by Nate Dinet
The 2018 Reader Views Literary Awards and IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Winners have been announced! Congratulations to all of the great Outskirts Press authors that received these honors this year. Outskirts Press Reader Views Literary Awards Winners Children - Early Reader - Ages 6 to 8 Second Place: Too Much Junk in My Trunk! by … Continue reading Announcing the Reader Views & Benjamin Franklin Awards Winners!
With the abundance of self-published authors, you have to come up with creative ways to market a self-published book. While book tours are a great way to connect with your readers, they aren't the most affordable method of promotion. However, technology has made it possible for an alternative. Take note from self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Kal … Continue reading Knowledge to Power: Understanding and Overcoming Addiction by Kal W. Rissman
This year, Outskirts Press has an impressive 45 EVVY Award nominees to thank for their dedication and high-quality work as self-published authors. The EVVYs are an acclaimed annual book award program sponsored by the Colorado Independent Publishers' Association (CIPA), which recognizes superior independently published books. The EVVYs are judged by a panel of professionals on … Continue reading Congratulations and Good Luck to the 2018 Outskirts Press EVVY Award Nominees!
Here's this week's Featured Book-of-the-Week available now on Amazon.com! Beyond Ragnarok by Tore Olav Arnesen Price: $16.95 Tore Olav Arnesen's "Beyond Ragnarok." Jens, a professor of linguistics at Trondheim University makes a breakthrough not only in bird communications but also with Kong, a rescued and rehabilitated dolphin. Jens and Kong develop a strong bond and … Continue reading Amazon Featured Book of the Week
If you’ve spent much time with your latest manuscript, you may have begun to notice that certain errors are both easy to make and easy to miss when revising. This is true of the self-publishing process. If you want to be taken seriously as an author, a professional author with a successful book, there are … Continue reading Self-Publishing Mistakes You Can Avoid
These days, nearly everyone is on social media — tooling around on Twitter and Facebook, or mingling with other professionals on LinkedIn. At the very least, they are leaning heavily on Google to instantly find information and resources every day. Put these powerful tools to use helping readers find your book! The truth is there … Continue reading Bring in Bigger Sales with Banner Ads
You've heard this many times here: They say you can't judge a book by its cover ... but book shoppers always do. Always. Like it or not, readers have little to go on, other than first impressions, as they pare down thousands of book choices to the few they wish to explore further. That means … Continue reading The Job of a Book Cover (and How to Get One that SELLS!)
Here's this week's Featured Book-of-the-Week available now on Amazon.com! My Mom's from Lublin My Dad's from Seattle by Gene Olson (5 Stars - 1 Customer Review) Price: $9.95 Gene Olson's "My Mom's from Lublin My Dad's from Seattle" documents the vastly different childhoods of Olson's parents. His mother was Norwegian and his dad was Swedish … Continue reading Amazon Featured Book of the Week