I think about books and marketing all the time. I mean all the time. I don’t even listen to the radio in the car because I don’t want the background noise to disrupt my thoughts. I also think about how I can teach my clients that the Old Rules of Marketing don’t apply anymore. I [...]

We travel this maze of book marketing trying to find what works best for each of us. Different approaches work for different authors and genres. A marketing plan that works great for one author crashes and burns for another. As a self published author, what has worked best for you? How much time to do [...]

By Guest Blogger – Trish Perry author of Beach Dreams, Too Good to Be True, and The Guy I’m Not Dating. I feel slightly hypocritical addressing this topic. I promised Books A Latte this guest blog back in May of 2008. One might think I hadn’t quite grasped the whole overcoming-obstacles concept yet. But. When [...]

My passion is to write.  If your passion is the same as mine, here’s some tips to get you started or keep you motivated. When you are starting to write or get writer’s block, the smartest idea is to write about what you know about.  Otherwise, you are going to be doing a lot of [...]

So you want to be a writer, and you think a small daily or good-size weekly is your best foot in the door? Be prepared to swing two bats. If this was baseball, practicing swinging two bats would put power in your swing. Same goes for writing. Disciplining yourself to crank out copy, and lots [...]

An editor told me recently he’s been inundated by stories that aren’t finished. In the freelance world, an unfinished story is a liability to the writer. The more work the editor has to do to it just to get it to useable, the less likely the writer is to continue the working relationship with that [...]

The doorbell rang, and since both my son and I expected packages, we raced to the door to see what the UPS man had left on the front porch. “Yes!” I snatched up the package with my name on it. I carried it into the kitchen, laid it on the countertop, and ripped it open. [...]