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A successful Romance cover can go down smoothly like milk chocolate... if the ingredients are right. In order to be a successful hit on the bookshelves, every romance cover needs: the right imagery, the perfect colour combination, and the proper dusting of typography.
Read MoreValentine's Day is coming up and you've got a romance book to market - lucky for you because timing is on your side. Valentine's Day is a great opportunity to get your brand in front of potential romance readers!
Here at FriesenPress, we've come up with a few out-of-the-box ways to promote your romance novel:
Read MoreThough the same promotional tactics can be used for all types of books, there are additional methods you can use when promoting a children’s book. But before you reach the stage where you promote your book, and before your book has even been published, there are two things that need to be done.
Read MoreWarren Layberry is one of our editors here at FriesenPress. For over thirteen years, he worked for Chapters/Indigo, both in Ottawa and Montreal. He was, for a time, the regional purchasing consultant for Ontario, and the unofficial publishing consultant for the Ottawa area stores. He spent a good deal of time and effort fielding questions from self-published authors and eventually helped to standardize and implement the consignment policies across the chain. Through this question and answer segment, Warren will help dispell some of the mysteries and myths of getting your book into a major chain bookstore.
So you have written a beautiful manuscript and poured your energy and love into it. At this point, most first-time authors think they have finished their hard work — but the reality is, they are only near the beginning of their journey. It will be perilous and challenging, but if you plan well, ultimately rewarding.
Purchasing anything nowadays can be a scary process, particularly when you are entrusting your words and innermost thoughts in the form of your manuscript to someone you don’t know. Having been in sales over 20 years, I can safely say that if there is one thing that is consistent in sales, it is “if there is a service to be sold, there will always be salesmen to take your money”. Finding that perfect fit for you in a sea of salesmen and businesses can be daunting.
Read MoreHere at FriesenPress, we’re in a position to see A LOT of self-published books. Not only that, we have the opportunity to work with each author individually, while also getting to know their goals and dreams, their manuscript, their book design and marketing efforts. It’s a process where we really get to know our authors well.
After working with hundreds of authors, however, we’ve noticed a few reoccurring errors that they seem to make. Fortunately, they are avoidable, and we’re here to tell you how! Here are the top six mistakes that you can learn from:
Read MoreGetting self-published books into bookstores is often one of the first topics we are asked about in the Book Promotion Department at FriesenPress. Almost every new author wants to know how they can get their book into major bookstores across the country and they want to know the steps to make it happen. We see many authors make bookstores their first priority and when this happens, we must provide an overview of the realities of self-publishing and bookstores.
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