Authorcraft Book Club

YouTube Authors Storm the Bestseller List

Oct 30, 2015

The ability of YouTube personalities to capture readers is writ large if you look at this weekÔÇÖs bestseller list. Three books by YouTube dynamos landed in the top 20 on Publishers Weekly’s overall bestseller list, powered by Nielsen BookScan, for the week...

Five Author Tips for a Radio Interview

Oct 30, 2015

by Helen Lewis of Literally PR http://www.literallypr.com/ Radio interviews can be a great way to get news about your book out there in the general population but they do need to be prepared for if you want to get the most out of them. Literally PR has sent a lot of...

5 Things That Authors Should Not be Doing on Social Media

Oct 29, 2015

Daniel Hawksworth┬á – Co Founder & Managing Director of Hawkify ┬áAh, social media ÔÇô you wonderful window into the hearts and minds of all and sundry. To say that social media has taken over the world is a massive understatement. Millions of us log onto to...

Why The Google Books Ruling Is Good For Authors and Publishers

Oct 28, 2015

  By Ellen Duffer┬á – www.forbes.com The decade-long Authors Guild v. Google case came to a close on October 16, with the Second Circuit court siding with Google. Authors, filing with The Authors Guild, Inc. to contest GoogleÔÇÖs book-scanning project...

Ghost: first exciting thing to happen to blogging in years

Oct 27, 2015

Former Deputy Head of the WordPress User Interface Group and well known blogging thought leader, John OÔÇÖNolan has pulled together top talent to create Ghost, a new blogging platform in light of the renowned WordPress platform becoming more of a content management...