The Booksellers Association is holding the first Bookshop Day for the UK and Ireland on Saturday 8th October and it will also continue its Books Are My Bag campaign, now in its fourth year. Bookshops are being encouraged to host special parties, events and book-signings to mark Bookshop Day and the start of the crucial […]
Author Archive | Chris Day
Agenda for the AuthorCraft September event
New Season.┬á┬á 27th September 2016 – Running Order ÔÇ£Your book only has one chance to make a first impressionÔÇØ 5.30pm ┬á ┬á ┬áDoors open ÔÇô Registration and informal networking. Bar open for drinks and snacks. Admission – ┬ú25┬á┬á┬á First time visitors free. ┬á┬áMembers subscribing at ┬ú9.99 per month pay ┬ú15 ┬á On the paper […]
6 Steps to boost your sales using social media – free webinar
In this live and free 1 hour webinar, I will take you through my ÔÇ£Six Step Path To PurposeÔÇØ to help you understand how-to use social media to boost your sales! My 8 years of social media experience, along with my 20 years sales & marketing experience, has helped me truly understand what small businesses […]
Finished your manuscript – now the work starts!
From top editor Jane Mallin ÔÇ£Easy reading is damned hard writing.ÔÇØ Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hurrah! YouÔÇÖve done the hard work ÔÇô youÔÇÖve thrashed out your big idea, broken it down into its component parts and written the damn thing. YouÔÇÖve redrafted, revised and rewritten it. YouÔÇÖre happy with the big picture: all the sections are in […]
Meet our guest speaker Penina Shepherd
ÔÇ£In In this visionary presentation, Penina also tells of her fascinating book writing journey that started in an Ashram in India and the steps she had to take to bring it to fruition. Her presentation, based on her bestseller book┬áThe Freedom Revolution, Penina also tells about the revolution that has taken the world of careers […]
AuthorCraft represented at Beijing International Book Fair
AuthorCraft founder and publisher, Chris Day traveled the 5,000 miles from London to Beijing to attend the 23rd Beijing International Book Fair.┬á With 300,000 titles on display and 1,379 international exhibitors it was a sizable event. Filament Publishing, Chris’s company, already has titles in China the most popular of these is Dee BlickÔÇÖs ÔÇÿUltimate Small […]
Woman Magazine interviews Smita Joshi
Congratulations to Filament author Smita Joshi for chairing the ┬áGlobal Women Summit and also for the extensive media coverage she is attracting for her book trilogy “Karma and Diamonds”. Well done Smita! Smita chairing the session “How to Awaken Women to their Potential” at the Global Woman Summit on 30-31 July 2016 at the […]
When Fame Comes Knocking: Be Sure Your Author Website Has a Press Kit
by Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson), The Hot Sheet While editing a story for Publishing Perspectives on the long-running popularity of dystopian fiction, I came across one of the best examples IÔÇÖve seen of an authorÔÇÖs press kit. ItÔÇÖs something every author should consider having ready and available. Primarily intended for members of various news media, […]
How Authors Can Get More Fans and Book Sales with Less Social Media
by┬áChris Syme┬á ┬á ┬áas seen on Digital Book World A mind-boggling 78 percent of Americans have a social media profile. According to Statista, 2.72 billion people will be social media users worldwide by 2019. It is a given that authors can develop loyal audiences and sell more books with the help of social media. But […]