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Award-Winning Author and Journalist Michael J. Totten Joins Lucky Bat Books

1 Comment / Blog, Featured Story / By Judith

Welcome, Michael J. Totten! The team at Lucky Bat Books is thrilled to announce that editor, book marketer, journalist and writer Michael Totten is onboard as managing editor. He’s working with fiction and nonfiction writers, putting his prodigious talents and skills to use in today’s publishing world. His writing has appeared in major publications, including …

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Courtney Sermone, Lucky Bat Books Managing Editor and Marketing

Looking for Book Marketing?

Blog / By Judith

Meet our new Managing Editor, Courtney Sermone. She’s leading writers into the realms of digital marketing, your book marketing coach and your tour guide to all digital media, from Twitter to the latest, trendiest for readers and writers. Contact her for a FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION; see what she says about YOUR book. Read more about her here [https://www.luckybatbooks.com/about/lucky-bat-books-project-managers/courtney-sermone/]

If The Stars Are Gods by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford, cover design by Brandon Swann

Book Covers – Would You Buy This Book?

Blog, Book Cover Design / By Judith

by Judith. We all know that readers judge a book by its cover; or, at the very least, their first reaction to a book is an offshoot of their first impression of the cover, despite the adage that tells us all NOT to judge this way. So, we make sure our covers are done well, …

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What We Learned in 2012 – For a Happy 2013

Blog / By Judith

Publishing Notes from the Lucky Bat Books Team We’re approaching the end of a year, beginning of a new one, and what did we learn in 2012? What’s going to matter in 2013? It takes a team—a highly professional and accomplished team—to create a successful Lucky Bat Books. When Cindie and I (Judith) started, we had …

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Interview With RA Jones

Author Interviews, Lucky Bat Authors / By Judith

Young Adult/Middle Grade Author RA Jones Shares Tricks, Apps and Tools of Marketing to Kids A Welsh writer with previous success in the adult thriller/suspense market, RA Jones dove into the kids’ market last year with brilliant, spooky fiction for middle grade and young adult readers published by Lucky Bat Books. Since then, he’s been …

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O’ the Places Your Blog Can Go

Blog, Book Marketing / By Judith

Write it once. Send it many many places. That’s my philosophy of blogs. And with all the apps making it easy to feed a blog from one place to another, it’s just crazy to let it appear in all its glory just once and once only on your website. Make that blog work for you …

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Don’t Forget Your Print Book E-Store

Blog, Book Marketing / By Judith

One of the biggest gifts of the huge changes in the publishing world is the access writers now have to distribution channels. And chief amongst these channels for the indie writer is Amazon and its print partner, CreateSpace. These are powerful distribution and marketing channels. As I was talking with a writer yesterday, I realized …

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Author Pre-Pub Checklist

2 Comments / Blog, Book Marketing / By Judith

Before You Finish Writing the Book Current Publishing Wisdom Says: Book promotion begins well before you finish writing your book. Don’t wait until your book is published. Get set so you’ll be ready to roll when your book is. But you probably know that. The question is, what exactly can you do while you’re deep …

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Why Can’t an Author Launch with Just Facebook?

1 Comment / Blog, Book Marketing / By Judith

Questions pop into my head at odd moments. Is that tree dead or is it just winter? Do they have three chickens or just two at that house on the corner? Do swordfish have ears? Can you launch a book with just Facebook? Minimal Web Assets Needed I’ve always said that you need at least the …

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Authors Helping Authors

Blog / By Judith

Welcome to Lucky Bat Books, where authors publish and publicize authors. Converting to eBooks, marketing books, finding your books’ readers.