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What Can a Virtual Book Tour Do for Indie Authors?

Check out the sampling of reviews from a virtual book tour and find out how we help clients run them.

By Tom Collins February 26, 2026 Book Reviews, Marketing your book
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[TfTi] Using TikTok as Your Bookseller

Learn what I found through links in an email with the subject line “40k in book sales thanks to this.”

By Tom Collins February 5, 2026 Business & Entrepreneurship, Indie Publishing, Marketing your book, Tips from Tom's inbox
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The Changing Face of Libraries &  How to Get Your Indie Book Listed

Authors who self-publish often forget or ignore one of the most powerful places on the planet to have their book noticed. That’s in a library. […]

By Yvonne DiVita January 29, 2026 Marketing your book
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[TfTi] Indie Authors, Rejoice! Reaching Your Readers Is Your Responsibility

Learn about the distinction between the “retail marketing” that traditional publishers do and “consumer marketing” that authors must do to create reader demand for their books.

By Tom Collins January 20, 2026 Indie Publishing, Marketing your book, Tips from Tom's inbox
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What’s New and What Matters in Indie Publishing for 2026

What should indie authors be doing to seize opportunities in 2026? Here are some ideas to help.

By Yvonne DiVita January 15, 2026 AI Tools & Tips, Audiobooks, Books, Indie Publishing, Marketing your book
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Your Book as a Business: Thinking Like an Authorpreneur

If you’re writing a book, you’d best start thinking like an authorpreneur. Here’s why and how.

By Yvonne DiVita December 11, 2025 Books, Business & Entrepreneurship, Marketing your book, Marketing your business
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One AI Tool (that works!) for Authorpreneurs

Finally, we’ve found an AI tool that delivers on its promise a quick and easy images for author marketing and more.

By Tom Collins October 30, 2025 AI Tools & Tips, Business & Entrepreneurship, Marketing your book
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From Book Launch to Lifelong Buzz: Marketing Moves that Matter

Need a marketing plan for your book? Here are a couple dozen specific tactics you can include in yours.

By Yvonne DiVita September 25, 2025 Indie Publishing, Marketing your book
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Can AI Create Your Book Trailer?

Find out what I learned in a course on creating book trailers with AI and my own experiment

By Tom Collins September 4, 2025 AI Tools & Tips, Creativity, Marketing your book
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[TfTi] Will the AI Overlords Be Reviewing Your Book?

See what an AI reviewer did with a piece I wrote decades ago and learn why you don’t want that for your book.

By Tom Collins July 31, 2025 AI Tools & Tips, Book Reviews, Marketing your book, Tips from Tom's inbox
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