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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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Deeper Dive On Creating Book Blurbs

Deeper Dive On Creating Book Blurbs

Do you dread writing your book blurb? I used to, but now it’s actually fun! We all know that getting a reader to our selling page is step one. Book Brush can help you create social media memes that rock and will drive customers to this all important page. The next step is to engage them enough to keep reading the blurb we’ve meticulously crafted and then finally to click that buy button. I have...

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What Do You Want To Promote About Your Book Series?

What Do You Want To Promote About Your Book Series?

Writing a series is a great way to continue characters your readers love, settings they can’t get enough of, and conflicts that keep them turning the pages while wondering how it might be resolved in a future book. (I don’t mean cliff hangers, but a character who will have her or his own book to solve an issue brought up in a prior book.) In Sandy Appleyard’s post,  she talks about ways to...

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