I am Not a Number…

You may already know that I am a librarian, but I am also a certain type of librarian. I spend most of my day cataloging state publications for the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. I went into, what we in the biz call, Technical Services, because I like organizing information. A big part of …

Why Book Marketing is Like Gardening – The Savvy Book Marketer

http://bookmarketingmaven.typepad.com/book_marketing_maven/2012/07/why-book-marketing-is-like-gardening.html This is a great post from The Say Book Marketer. In the on and off debate on how much marketing can help a writer I like this analogy. I think many writers are in danger of either paying too much attention or too little attention to the marketing of their works. Posted from WordPress for Android

Another Brick in the Publishing Wall

This post by Rebecca L Boschee appeared in the Wordserve Water Cooler last week. I wanted to share it because I thought it was really done well and points to a huge misconception about consumers. Price does not drive everything. For me it is the trifecta of price, selection and convenience. Amazon has pretty much locked …