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Do Your Family and Friends Not Understand the Publishing World?
If I had a nickel for every time someone said to me, “When is your book coming out?” I’d be a rich woman. When I hang out with certain friends or family members, they want to know when they’ll see my...
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Green in 2008, Publishing a Novel
I was naïve. I admit it, begrudgingly, but I do. In May 2008, I had begun to seriously write my novel. It was the second year of my master’s program—the year I dedicated to the writing (as opposed...
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Why I Like Steve Harrison’s Free Publicity Teleseminars
A major part of Pencey X Pages will be testing out marketing and publicity strategies for authors and aspiring authors. Months ago I went on a quest to find book publicists that offer useful, but FREE...
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To Take Editing Advice or …
Editing advice can be hard to hear, especially if you’re a beginning writer. I remember back in the day when I thought I knew everything about writing (later discovering that I still have a lot to...
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Book Publicity, Do What Feels Natural
Book publicity and marketing a novel is, well, it’s kind of hard. And I’m learning how to sell my novel, I, Putin (Vladimir Putin novel), which has been on sale on the Kindle and Nook since January...
View ArticleKindle Direct Promotions, Will They Translate into Sales?
My new venture while selling on Amazon is joining Kindle Direct Publishing Select (KDPS). It is a program where an author enrolls her/his book to sell on the Kindle exclusively. In other words, no...
View ArticleBad Editing is the Reason Indie Authors Aren’t Taken Seriously, Says Huff Post
Without further ado, we present to you what the Huffington Post says in an article entitled “The Big Reasons Indie Authors Aren’t Taken Seriously.” The *FIRST* reason is bad editing. “The main...
View ArticleAmazon Tools for Authors, Useful or Useless?
As stated in my Book Publicity Newsletter, I explored the Amazon tools this week, which I found to be everything I’d always known. I’d heard about the elusive tools, which are supposed to drastically...
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10 Things I’ve Learned in My First 6 Months of Being a Self-Published Author
1) It takes time to build an audience. If you want people to read your book, you need to build a loyal audience. I’m not talking about mom and grandpa and your BFF Lindsey, I’m talking hardcore, real...
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Jennifer Ciotta, featured in Poets&Writers magazine
Photo by Christy Whitney for Poets&Writers magazine I’m happy to announce that I was co-interviewed along with self-publishing icon Richard Nash and agent Kristin Nelson for a five-page article...
View ArticleDo I Have to Work with a New York Book Editor?
Aspiring authors often want to know if it’s crucial for their books to hire a New York book editor. They think that to get the best editorial services, they have to hire from the publishing houses and...
View ArticleReading Great Literature Makes You a Great Writer
As a fiction book editor, I read tons of manuscripts that are novels. As a writer myself, I also read a lot of novels and nonfiction. The one thing I’ve learned through all of this is: you write at the...
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