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Excited to share this author insight about Her Dear & Loving Husband from #romance #author Meredith Allard. Her book is available through #Bublish FREE TODAY. Check it out >> http://ow.ly/tRNN7

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Looking for some extra money to spend this holiday season? Sign up for a free writer or reader Bublish account and you could win a $50 Amazon gift card.

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Create a music playlist for your book

Ever thought about creating a music playlist for your book?  Check out how author Ed Hancox's created a playlist for his book, Iceland, Defrosted. http://www.bublish.com/blog/2013/11/music-inspired-by-your-book/

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Big News from Bublish

Big News!

PubSmart

We're excited to announce that Bublish is part of the founding team of PubSmart, a new kind of publishing conference that puts authors and small publishers in the driver's seat. The conference will be held on April 16 - 18, 2014 in beautiful downtown Charleston, South Carolina. This is also where Bublish is headquartered, so the Bublish team is hopeful that we'll get to meet some of you in person! Check out the exceptional list of speakers, including bestselling hybrid author Hugh Howey and Jane Friedman, former publisher of Writer's Digest. Also, check out the panels. You'll see that this conference is about the business of publishing in a quickly changing book marketplace. It’s about helping emerging authors and small publishers make the smartest decisions based on the latest information.  Bublish is offering our community an extra $50 discount on top of the early bird discounts. If you have an active Bublish account and would like the discount code, just email us at info [at] bublish [dot] com. If you know someone who would like to attend point them to bublish.com. After they sign up, they can email us for the discount code.  

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT  PUBSMART  

Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) "Book of the Month" Awards Bublish is also proud to be part of ALLi's new monthly award for independent authors. You can't nominate your own book, but you can support a fellow bublisher by nominating their book. The really exciting thing about this contest, in addition to promoting top independent books and authors, is that readers will select a winner through book bubbles! Not only do we think this award is a great way to support Bublish authors, but we believe it will draw even more readers to the Bublish platform, helping you grow your audience. 

CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT "BOOK OF THE MONTH" AWARD

Bublish Crowdfunding Project on IndieGoGo In January, Bublish will launch a crowdfunding project on IndieGoGo. We'll have more details soon, but our goal is to raise enough money to build two important new features for Bublish: 1. Create a customized, genre-specific reader email campaign with book bubbles. This means your book bubbles will be delivered to the emails of readers interested in the genres of your books. This feature will help you sell more books through Bublish.  2. Build the foundations of our unique recommendation engine, which will be informed by readers sampling and engaging with your book bubbles.   Here's how you can help us raise the money to make Bublish even better: 1. Sign up to be part of our "Street Team" -- Help us spread the word. Bublish's IndieGoGo campaign will last for about five weeks. During that time, we'd be asking you to actively spread the word and get people excited about supporting Bublish. If you're interested, email indo [at] bublish [dot] com.   2. Make a financial pledge -- When you're crowdfunding, every penny helps. We need your support to reach our fundraising goal. Bublish is going to offer some really cool incentives (social media intensives, tickets to PubSmart and more). More details to come.  3. Tell a friend about Bublish! Even if you can't commit to our street team, every share and every post counts. So many of you have written about Bublish on your blogs before. We are so grateful.. You're such an amazing community of writers and readers. We know we can count on you.

Weekly Events & Resources 

Authors, don't forget to create new book bubbles to be included in our weekly #SampleSunday Marathon on Twitter @BublishMe and Bublish's Floating Bookstore which comes out each Monday. We also have Live Twitter Chats most Thursdays at 3:00 pm EST. Bublish authors can sign up for a chat by contacting us at: info [at] bublish [dot] com. It's all fun, free book promotion and just a sample of the ways we support our writers and readers. We hope you'll participate in these events to get the most out of your Bublish experience. Here are links to a few of our most recent chats: November 14 -- Author Terri-Lynn Smiles November 7 -- Author Edward Hancox November 1 -- Author Ro Cuzon October 24 -- Author Tonya Macalino October 18 -- Author John C. Brewer October 17 -- Author S. A. Hunt Here are links to recent Bublish blogs. Hope you'll check them out, comment and share the posts you like with a friend: "Music Inspired by Your Book" "Why National Novel Writing Month Is Important for Writers and Readers" "What My Dermatologist Taught Me About Book Marketing" "What Author Paulo Coelho Can Teach Us About Voice and Book Promotion"

Reminder

Bublish now works with the following retailers: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, Kobo and Smashwords. If you haven't updated your account to include all the places where your books are available, here are the steps to follow:

Go to your Author Dashboard and select a book.

Click the "book info" button for that book.

Check all the boxes where your book is available (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, Kobo and/or Smashwords).

Click "done" in the lower, right-hand corner to submit this updated information.

We'll alert you by email when your new "buy" links have been added.

Happy Bublishing!

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from Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Soln

Love this quote about the power of story.

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Social Savvy Authors Contest by Kobo Writing Life

I'm excited to announce that as of today, you can enter Kobo Writing Life's "Social Savvy Author Contest" to win a free, two-hour social media intensive with Kathy Meis, founder and president of Bublish. We're very excited to help the winning author take their social media presence to the next level.

http://kobowritinglife.com/2013/11/06/enter-kobos-social-savvy-author-contest/

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On this chilly morning, thinking back to #summer #reading.  

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The Importance of Sharing

Last night at dinner, my four-year-old son complained that he was hungry. When asked what he’d like to eat, he replied, “I don’t know. I’m hungry.” His eight-year-old sister was already enjoying her chickpea salad when she asked, “Would you like to try what I am having? It’s super delicious!” He hesitantly accepted her offering, and after the first taste said enthusiastically, “Hey, I want some more!”

You should’ve seen the smile on my daughter’s face. I asked her how it made her feel knowing her little brother had tasted something for the first time because SHE liked it. “I love to share,” she told me. That response got me thinking.

It’s true. Most of us love to share. There’s something rewarding about sharing something you enjoy and having the receiver delight in your suggestion. According to an article in The New York Times called, “Psychology of Sharing,” there are six different personas of sharing:

Altruist – sharers who are helpful, reliable, thoughtful, connected, and use email to share

 Careerist – sharers who are intelligent business networkers and are likely to share content on LinkedIn

Hipster – sharers who are creative, young and popular. They consume content that is on the cutting edge and care about defining their identity. They rarely use email.

Boomerangs – sharers who share information to get a reaction and feel validated. They are empowered by social media and tend to use both Twitter and Facebook

Connectors – sharers who are creative, relaxed, thoughtful, planners. They use both email and Facebook.

Selectives – sharers who are resourceful, careful and thoughtful. They share content that is informative and also use email to share content with individuals.

After finishing a book that you’ve thoroughly enjoyed, what do you do? Do you share your new literary find with others? What was the last book that you recommended? What type of sharer are you?

Matthew Meis is the director of marketing at Bublish, the social book discovery and commerce platform that is revolutionizing how writers share their stories and readers find books they’ll love.

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Winner of Bublish T-shirt Contest

WE HAVE A WINNER Lauren M. has won the limited-edition #Bublish t-shirt. Congratulations Lauren! We'll be emailing you soon so we can get your address and ship your t-shirt.

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Why Authors Become Celebrities

For some reason, most moviegoers aren’t interested in learning about the person who wrote the screenplay for their favorite movies. It’s the actors who take center stage in this medium. With books, it’s different. Many bestselling authors are celebrities.

This got me thinking…why the difference?

A couple of theories came to mind. First, movies are often adaptations of books, so perhaps moviegoers view screenwriters as interpreters rather than creators. Second, movies are primarily visual. It takes a whole team of people to create a movie scene – visual effects technicians, set people, costume artists, location teams, etc. It’s difficult to point to one person as a movie’s creator.

With a book, worlds are created by one person, the author. I think this is the key difference. Authors create entire worlds, imaginary characters and, of course, intricate plots using only words to engage. A good writer inspires a reader’s imagination. Makes us believe. Compels us to visualize the worlds they have created. There’s something rather extraordinary about that power and I think it makes us want to learn about the creator, the author.

So that’s my theory about why we turn authors into celebrities, but not screenwriters. What’s your theory?

Matthew Meis is director of marketing at Bublish, the award-winning social book discovery and commerce platform that is revolutionizing how writers share their stories and readers find books they’ll love.

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What is Your Strategy for This New Book Marketplace?

The Frankfurt Book Fair opens this week in Germany. As the world’s largest trade show for books, it’s an important barometer of the latest trends in publishing. This year’s fair makes clear that publishing has now moved past the first wave of disruption that occurred with the transition to digital books, and is in the middle of a second wave of disruption—the rise of the self-published author. 

What does this mean for you as a reader? More selection, for one thing. The “gatekeepers,” as the agents and major publishing houses used to be called, no longer control the marketplace. Anyone can become a published author now. This means more books are being published than ever. Some of the top selling books in the world are now self-published.

Greater competition leads to competitive pricing, so readers can expect to pay less for books, too. More selection at a better price! What could be better for readers? As a recent article in Forbes stated, “robust competition has done what it nearly always does – improve market efficiency. Readers, authors and publishers all see benefits.” 

There is a flip side to this abundant book marketplace, though. With more books and fewer physical bookstores, there is less curation. Online retailers have no shelf space restrictions, so there’s no need to weed out anything. More is better in online retailing, but this means readers must sort through a much wider range of quality.

The combination of more books and fewer gatekeepers and curators, makes discovery a new challenge for readers. The online shopping experience isn’t really set up for browsing. It’s primarily search driven, designed to get readers to the books they already know about.

So what’s your experience as a reader trying to navigate this new crowded book marketplace?

Matthew Meis is the director of marketing at Bublish, the social book discovery and commerce platform that is revolutionizing how writers share their stories and readers find books they’ll love.

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