Look, we totally understand that book marketing is grueling and hard and often demoralizing. Believe it or not, we actually DO understand what you’re going through. Most book bloggers do. And we want to help authors. Honest we do. Helping authors is one of the main reasons we started this blog to begin with. But there are some things we see on a regular basis (it’s scary how regular that basis is) that make us add authors to our “never ever ever, not if they were the last author on” list. So, with that in mind, here’s a list of things you can do to ensure we’ll never, ever read or review your book.

Guest post by Isabel Jordan (Reprinted with permission) 
For a self-published author, getting a negative review is like having someone tell you your kid’s ugly. And stupid. It hurts and you want to argue. You want to rage against the mouth-breathing, quarter-witted miscreant who dared disrespect your baby. But here are a few things to keep in mind before you decide to brush up on your cyber-stalking skills and formulate a plan to ruin a reviewer’s life:

Guest post by Bronwyn Green

Authors need to foster a lot of relationships—relationships with their readers, book bloggers, their editorial staff, and their cover artist to name a few. Working well with your cover artist is hugely important, because after all, your cover is the first thing potential readers see.

So, assuming you don’t already have a cover artist you love and adore *bats eyes at my ridiculously patient cover artist* let’s look at how to find a cover artist.