Author Archives: Ann O'Brien

How to Find Outstanding Beta Readers for Your Book

When you write a book, an important part of the process is finding beta readers. These reviewers read your book in its final stages and give you an honest assessment of it. Beta readers can help you step out of … Continue reading »

Children’s Book Illustrator: Where to Find an Outstanding One

Looking for a children’s book illustrator? Illustrations are essential to a successful children’s book. If you have the talent, you can create the artwork yourself. In most cases, however, you need to find a children’s book illustrator who can bring … Continue reading »

Great Catalog Design Ideas

Upgrading and freshening up your catalog can inject new life into this marketing tool, so we have a few catalog design ideas to help you breathe new life into yours to increase customer engagement and bring a new look to … Continue reading »

30 Awesome Book Marketing Ideas

For most writers, coming up with book marketing ideas can be challenging. However, authors can use a surprisingly wide variety of book marketing strategies to market to potential readers. So to help you jumpstart your book sales, we have a … Continue reading »

Effective Scholarly Publishing: Print vs. Digital

Publishing is a big part of academic life. The term “publish or perish” is one that analysts, historians, scientists, and other researchers have heard so often it’s become a cliche. When you have an interesting finding or analysis you want … Continue reading »

The Most Effective Print Marketing Materials to Promote Business

Connecting with the right customer and creating positive brand awareness are key elements of most marketing campaigns. But developing an effective, affordable, and enduring marketing campaign can be challenging for businesses that may not have the personnel or finances to … Continue reading »

Can You Write a Best Selling Book about Someone without Permission?

As an author, you have the right to write about whatever topic you choose. Or do you? When it comes to writing a fictionalized or even purely non-fiction story about another person, writers should tread lightly to make sure that … Continue reading »

10 Ways to Save Book Printing Costs

Authors don’t have to wait for a publishing company to decide to bring their book to print anymore. They can do it themselves and self-publish with a printing company instead. But one of the aspects of self-publishing that differs from … Continue reading »

Blog to Book Transformation: 7 Steps for a Dazzling Book

A certain amount of freedom comes with being a blogger. The way you schedule your writing, the topics you choose to write about, whether or not you review products or services, and even the writing voice you utilize are all … Continue reading »

Cookbook Recipes: Using Someone Else’s Delicious Recipe

Cookbooks are a popular type of book to publish because there are so many variations of cookbooks to make. The combination of cookbook recipes that can be included is endless and cookbooks provide a fantastic way to preserve memories and … Continue reading »

Savvy Self Editing Tips When Writing

Writing your first draft is an accomplishment, but your work isn’t over. Whether you’ve written a blog post, an article, or a novel, your next step is to self edit your writing. Put your pen down, get your fingers off … Continue reading »

4 Book Printing Mistakes to Avoid

With a long list of what you need to do to take your book concept to a PDF, print-ready file, you might not be thinking about the types of things not to do. While your to-do list may be lengthy, … Continue reading »