Lucky Bat Books is excited to announce a new release just in time for the heated political season. In Unlocking the Schoolhouse Door: Essays on the Misunderstandings of Public Education, former educator and author Larry White takes readers inside the classroom to reveal what’s happening—and what should be happening—in public education today. For anyone who’s […]
Love books? Love writing? Love meeting authors? Curious about how Lucky Bat Books chooses its authors and publishes books? Let’s talk. — Drop by the 7th Annual NW Book Festival on Saturday, July 25, from 11 to 5 pm. Meet Lucky Bat Books managing editors Dayle Dermatis and Sarah Hoggatt. Ask anything. We love to talk
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Until the Kindle Unlimited subscriber base is large enough to move the market, the value to book marketers will remain very low at best.
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The better my passive marketing (SEO for book publishers), the greater return I get from my active marketing (aka promotion).
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Lucky Bat Books cover design artist Theresa Rose shares some of her insights on designing covers for ebooks and print. We simply asked what makes a good book cover design and then transcribed Theresa’s words: Good Design? Multiple Components Enter the Picture: Typography and the use of a font that reflects the feeling of the
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Write it once. Send it many many places. That’s my philosophy of blogs. And with all the apps making it easy to feed a blog from one place to another, it’s just crazy to let it appear in all its glory just once and once only on your website. Make that blog work for you
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One of the biggest gifts of the huge changes in the publishing world is the access writers now have to distribution channels. And chief amongst these channels for the indie writer is Amazon and its print partner, CreateSpace. These are powerful distribution and marketing channels. As I was talking with a writer yesterday, I realized
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Why just publish when you can have fun too? That’s what we said, and so that’s what we’re doing as we publish over 20 books by Douglas Smith. Giving away a free book every day. We’ll be publishing Douglas’ short stories and novelettes over the next few days, and as we publish a batch, we’ll
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Before You Finish Writing the Book Current Publishing Wisdom Says: Book promotion begins well before you finish writing your book. Don’t wait until your book is published. Get set so you’ll be ready to roll when your book is. But you probably know that. The question is, what exactly can you do while you’re deep
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Questions pop into my head at odd moments. Is that tree dead or is it just winter? Do they have three chickens or just two at that house on the corner? Do swordfish have ears? Can you launch a book with just Facebook? Minimal Web Assets Needed I’ve always said that you need at least the
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