BiblioCrunch | Self-Publishing Resouces

Dear NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) participants, I’m Miral Sattar, writer/journalist/techie and founder of Bibliocrunch. Kudos to you for embarking on this novel-writing challenge! Bibliocrunch is proud to be an official sponsor for NaNoWriMo and we’ll be supporting our authors in a variety of ways. To start I wrote a free self-publishing guide titled You’re Done, Now What? […]

You might have heard of #AmazonCart. Amazon’s seamless and easy way to add purchases to your cart with a simple Tweet. Today, Amazon just rolled out #AmazonWishList.

In light of our IndieChat tonight, our blog post this week is focused on children’s literature.

Amazon hasn’t commented or said much about their ongoing contract battle with Hachette. Earlier today, on their forums they broke their silence and released an official statement.

Did you just realize that Mother’s Day is around the corner? Don’t fret! It’s not too late to get your mom a Mother’s Day gift. If your mom loves books, here’s our affordable book-inspired gift guide for Mother’s Day. Be Funny Does your mom or wife have a sense of humor? If so then she […]

I remember a discussion at BEA last year saying that everyone has recognized self-publishing except for major media newspapers.

We, like, every writer community got super excited about Amtrak’s Residency program. A program for writers to write and get free train rides? How awesome!

The entire publishing world has their knickers in a twist since Hugh Howey released his report on Author Earnings last week.  The chat transcript is here. We even had Hugh Howey, HM Ward and a lot of other folks stop by. 

We couldn’t help but post. Our favorite book-inspired cupcakes for Valentine’s Day from Victoria’s Kitchen in London. 

I’m generally not very fond of making predictions about the future, particularly in the technology space.

So, you’ve written a great book. You’ve gotten a few great reviews. You’ve given away free copies and gotten great feedback. You now want to jumpstart sales and don’t know what to do next.

Sweet! Here’s a great gift for your book lover friends who own an iPad or iPhone. Apple iBookstore now let’s you give  individual books as gifts

There are always new tools popping up for authors everyday. One that stands out in particular is a tool called BookVibe Alerts. BookVibe Alerts simply let’s you input your book information into the console and keep track of all your book mentions on Twitter.