October 2021 - Book Brush

5 Ways To Make Animated Templates Work For You

5 Ways To Make Animated Templates Work For You

Wow, how fun and fast are premade animated templates? You get music, movement and your book cover all in one short meme! Book Brush has created Animated Community Templates as a new approach to get movement into your ads, a mini book trailer if you will. And I will! Let’s Get Started Start with the Custom Creator Tool Then find Community Templates and filter to Collections then Animated Mockups....

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The 5 Key Steps to Building a Successful Author Branding and Marketing Campaign!

The 5 Key Steps to Building a Successful Author Branding and Marketing Campaign!

Every author I know has struggled, at one point or another, with how to effectively market their books. So, as an author coach for over a decade, I decided a few years ago to learn all I could about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to book marketing strategies. And while it would take much more time than I have writing this article to run through all the critical elements of a marketing...

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Ideas To Help You Create Paperback Book Spines

Ideas To Help You Create Paperback Book Spines

In the past few posts, we’ve talked about creating back covers that lead to sales, a deeper dive on writing blurbs, using segments of those blurbs in advertising memes and now for some do’s and don’t for creating the spine of your paper or hard back book. Note: see this post on creating paperback covers which explains a lot about what the various lines on your template means, why you need to pay...

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Using Book Blurb Lines In Your Ad Images

Using Book Blurb Lines In Your Ad Images

In the good old days, readers bought books in bookstores. They traveled to the store and unless they were shopping for a specific title, readers then wandered the aisles in general or headed straight for the section with their favorite genre. After browsing, they made a decision to buy based on three things: an enticing cover, an intriguing back cover description, and a captivating first page....

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