Recent content by Richard P Titus

Suggestion -- 1) try one method of self promotion 2) review your results 3) decide whether or not that self promotion venue serves your purposes a) If it does -- I. continue with it. II. proceed to promote with an additional...

Literature has to evolve. Mixing sci fi and fantasy is an inevitable baby step forward. After all, how many more zombie, vampire, chick lit, cozy mystery, YA urban fantasies can be produced? Aren't these themes already overdone? As volumes and volumes are churned out in the these...

18 x 24 inches, oil on canvas

Visual artists have an advantage in getting around the FB "20% coverage" rule -- let your image do your talking. A strong visual is definitely worth more than a thousand words. Choose/create a strong image, tuck a line of minimal text along the image's edge, and if you've already accomplished...

This may be the experience you've had with FB but it doesn't exactly match the experience I've had with them. Here's an example of policy that has me doubting just how much they're listening. FB Rule -- Not more than 20% of an ad can be covered by text. I've argued with them that is...

Do you have a FB-using friend or acquaintance that can assist you getting started on FB? When I first started using FB, I did not find it particularly user friendly. In fact, it's taken me a few years to decipher what I consider rather poorly-designed prompts. If you have someone computer...

I've recommended a book in another forum which I found to be very helpful -- How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months! by John Locke (I bought this as a Kindle book. Currently I see it offered only as a printed edition.) The title is hyperbole, of course, but the author does offer...

I wondered about that. In my case, I have a Kindle book but no printed copies on the market. I'm hesitant in having printed copies produced due to their cost but wonder if in the end whether hard copies might sell better than Kindle copies. Many readers still prefer holding a paper edition...

I'm curious about how many writers have run the Kindle gauntlet. I've been dealing with them for a couple of years now publishing my books. Some experiences with them have been "challenging," to say the least. There are definite advantages in promoting your work through the Amazon Empire...

Sacristy is a good possibility. It also occurred to me. Must be due to former altar boy duty. sac·ris·ty ˈsakrəstē/ noun: sacristy; plural noun: sacristies a room in a church where a priest prepares for a service, and where vestments and other things used in worship are kept.

There is a book I came across this year I found with very helpful suggestions about self-promoting one's book. (This post is in no way intended to be an advertisement. The intention is to pass on information that may be useful to writers in this forum.) How I Sold 1 Million ebooks in 5...

You might consider networking through Twitter rather than LinkedIn. My impression is the latter is more for networking between people in "business." Twitters seems more conducive to networking between those in book publishing, book promotion, and the writers and artists who create books. At...

Norr was the king of Nibb, a tropical paradise, remotely located and unknown to world neighbors. About the island, the ocean spread in all directions -- a watery expanse Nibbians had no desire to traverse. Even so, King Norr imagined wonderful lands far away and longed to see them. Why...