• How To Negotiate A Book Royalty by Brian Scott - The advance payment is just the beginning in the life cycle of your book. The royalty is the real money-generator.

• HOW TO PROMOTE A BOOK by Nithya K - Nowadays it's no longer a matter of whether or not an author should promote his or her book, but how aggressively one should go about it. The sad truth is that publishers often fail to promote books, and if we, the authors, don't promote your own book then it may be destined to a lifespan between that of butter and yogurt, to paraphrase Calvin Trillan.

• HOW TO SIGN WITH A LITERARY AGENT by Suzanne Falter-Barns - If you're interested in publishing a book and gaining a market presence and income from it, you'll need a literary agent. They are the grease that keeps the oft-rusty wheels of publishing moving. Every day, they eat lunch or talk to editors and acquisition people in publishing houses all over the world, all the while pitching them on the new hot 'properties', as your manuscript will be called.

• How to Turn Your Book Signing into a Sell-Out! by Judy Azar LeBlanc - Everyone loves a successful book signing! When I had my very first book signing it was a total flop! Well, maybe not totally, the book store did order six books and I did sell two of them! But success comes after failure only if you try again.

• How to Write a Killer Query Letter to Sell Your Book or Novel by Brian Scott - A query letter is a formal letter sent by a writer to literary agents, editors and publishers. This is a way for writers to propose their book ideas.

• INCREASE BOOK SALES: WHEN A SALE IS NO LONGER JUST A SALE by Catherine Franz - Do you have books sitting in your garage that you haven't sold yet and looking for ways to move them? Then you will want to know about these five outrageous ideas that aren't difficult and can be just plain out fun.

• Is There A Market for My Book? by Brian Scott - Start by visiting some large bookstores. Take your notebook and a pen. Copy the Tables of Contents of books that treat the same subject matter that your book does.

• NO MORE AUTOGRAPH PARTIES! by Dan Poynter - Book signings are a form of product promotion not available to producers of other goods or services. But autographings are not a party in your honor—you and your book are not even known yet.

• ONLINE BOOK PUBLISHING: SALES-MINI-SITES ARE MANDATORY by Shaun Fawcett - Based on everything I've learned over the past number of years about online book publishing and marketing, there is only one way to effectively sell a product such as an ebook from a Web site. That is, from what I call a "sales-mini-site".

• Pitch Your Book with a Persuasive Blurb by Brian Scott - The "blurb" is the back cover material for your book --- the selling points that will get people to buy the book. If you write the blurb before you write an outline, you're guaranteed not to wander off the track as you write your book.

• PLOTTING SUCCESS FOR A BOOK SIGNING by Robyn Whyte - Once you come to understand that you are central to the success of the book signing, you'll be a lot happier. Plot, like a novel, all the things you are going to do to make it successful.

• PROMOTING BOOKS AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT by Dan Poynter - Here are several ways to use new technology to promote your book faster, easier and cheaper.

• PUBLICITY FROM THIRTY THOUSAND FEET by Penny C. Sansevieri - We all know that marketing a book is a process. But sometimes the process takes longer than we’d anticipated. That’s why it’s nice every now and again to hop aboard the publicity jet and get a look-see at what you’ve been doing from the thirty-thousand foot level.

• Publishing - How to Get Your Book on Amazon by Glen Ford - It used to be that a writer's greatest dream was to walk into a large bookstore and see their name on a display stand. That gave way to having their book appear on Amazon or one of the other big name booksellers. And quite frankly it was a dream that was beyond the ken of most writers. The big booksellers got that way by selling only the books that sold well. By guessing correctly at what their customers wanted. And most writers didn't fit that bill.

• QUERY LETTERS: TEN WAYS TO HOOK A LITERARY AGENT by Lisa Silverman - During my years as a literary agent for both screenwriters and book authors, I received query letters by the thousands. Even small literary agencies are so overwhelmed by the influx that young, inexperienced interns weed through query letters from prospective authors before the agents even see those few "diamonds in the rough" with a chance at getting published.

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