by Kevin Tumlinson | Sep 14, 2016 | Author How-To & Mindset
Book covers are the first bit of customer-facing marketing that your reader will ever see. They’re a shortcut—telling the reader in shorthand that they’ll like this book, that it’s in the genre they love to read, and that the person who wrote it is someone they can...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Sep 6, 2016 | Author How-To & Mindset
A book can be a tangible indicator of your authority on a topic—but a book on the shelf doesn’t make much of an impact. Well-crafted book descriptions will prompt readers to pick up your work so it can start changing their life. Last week we took a deep dive look into...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Aug 24, 2016 | Author How-To & Mindset
There are a lot of tools in the publishing tool belt, and each has its own unique purpose and strength. Few, though, have more sway over a would-be reader than your book descriptions. We’ve talked about descriptions before. You may call it a ‘blurb’ or ‘back...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Aug 2, 2016 | Announcements, Features & Walk-Thrus, Press Release
Draft2Digital introduced Books2Read a year ago, as a first step toward providing authors with more and better tools and resources. Now, as part of Books2Read, we’re thrilled to announce Universal Book Links (UBLs). One of the biggest pain points plaguing all...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Nov 12, 2015 | Features & Walk-Thrus, Knowledge Base
One tool we offer that we want our authors to consider is our New Release Notifications tool. Building a mailing list is one of the most important things a self-published author can do to turn her successes into a real career. Discovery is the biggest challenge for...
