The stretch from Thanksgiving through Giving Tuesday is one of the busiest—and most lucrative—times of the year for retailers of all kinds, including authors. Readers are shopping for gifts, hunting for deals and looking for meaningful ways to give back. If you’re a self-published author, this season is the perfect opportunity to boost your visibility … Continue reading How to Market Your Book During Thanksgiving Weekend
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November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)—a worldwide challenge where writers commit to drafting 50,000 words in just 30 days. If you’ve joined in, congratulations! You’re already showing the discipline and creativity it takes to be an author. And now that we’ve reached the halfway mark, it’s the perfect time to reflect, re-energize and push through to the finish line. Tips for Staying Motivated in … Continue reading Halfway Through NaNoWriMo: Keep Writing and Bring Your Book to Life
Every November 11, our nation pauses to honor the courage and sacrifice of veterans. For authors, Veterans Day is not only a time of reflection and gratitude—it’s also an opportunity to thoughtfully connect your book to a meaningful day of recognition. Here are some ways you can market your book respectfully while honoring those who … Continue reading Honoring Veterans Day: Marketing Your Book with Purpose
Promo Code: ccrefine While spring often signifies new beginnings in literature and poetry (a rebirth, if you will), it’s often difficult to translate those slow and sudden changes which signify spring in the natural world into internal transformation, especially transformation of our work as writers. Here at Outskirts Press, we believe the charm and warmth … Continue reading Writing a Book? Marketing One? It’s Time to SPRING into Action
This is National Children's Book Week! Children’s books may just be the purest distillation of self-publishing perfection: they’re beautiful, they have universal appeal to readers of all ages, and they pack an emotional punch which leaves readers hungry for more. But if you’ve recently self-published a children’s book, you already know that marketing your book … Continue reading How to Market a Children’s Book
Reflections of a Regular Guy: A Memoir of Love, Resilience, and Happiness In the game of life, it helps to have a good but flexible game plan—especially when you’re behind. We all have stories about our lives. Some wonderful. Some tragic. But we all have something else in common: However long or short the periods … Continue reading [Poll] Author Mike Gardner Wants Your Help Choosing His Book Cover
Desert Heart One professes his love… one imprisons her…one rescues her. Aileah Parker is the result of a union between an American diplomat and a beautiful Bahrain native. She is the perfect mixture of both cultures. She agrees to accompany her boss on a diplomatic mission to negotiate a trade agreement with the new King … Continue reading Self-publishing author Leigh Schmidt wants your help choosing her book cover.
Thanksgiving is a time to take stock of everything there is to be thankful for. Family, friends, love, laughter ... and being a published author (or the opportunity to be published soon). There's never been a better time to be a writer. Here are just a few reasons we should all be thankful to be … Continue reading Top 10 Reasons to be Thankful for Self-Publishing
When you self-publish with Outskirts Press, you get so much more than the bare minimum. That's because we want more for you than to get you published — we want you thrive! Nothing demonstrates this commitment to assisting self-publishing authors like our Book Marketing Resource Center. This virtual bookshelf is stocked with a variety of … Continue reading How Smart Self-Publishers Market For the Holidays
While spring often signifies new beginnings in literature and poetry (a rebirth, if you will), it's often difficult to translate those slow and sudden changes which signify spring in the natural world into internal transformation, especially transformation of our work as writers. Here at Outskirts Press, we believe the charm and warmth of spring should … Continue reading Time for a Spring Reset? Here’s How…