Want to Sell More Books? Check Out This Tip from TheNewBookReview Associate, Lois W. Stern

SECRETS FOR SELLING MORE BOOKS 

By Lois W. Stern

Founder, Contributor and Editor of the #Tales2Inspire Series of anthologies

Contributing #AuthorsHelpingAuthors associate here and on the #SharingwithWriters Blog

Did you ever think of selling your books from the comfort of your home? At one time I thought about it too, looked into several inernet pay options, but nixed them all as they seemed too involved.

Then I learned about ZELLE.

The name of this game is SAFE, QUICK 'n EASY and FREE. 

Zelle is a safe, flexible, no fee way to make or receive a payments - all from the comfort of your home. 

SAFE: Despite all the talk of internet scams, when used properly, Zelle is extremely safe because you are not giving out either credit card or bank account information. This bank to bank transfer of funds moves a dollar amount from the buyer’s account to the account of the seller. The buyer’s bank simply transfers that inputted amount from one account to the other, without revealing the account number of either party. If you already pay your bills online, you're good to go. Once you sign in, there will be a drop down menu for paying bills. At my bank it looks like this:

• You can set up your Zelle account using either your cell phone number or your email address. I set up my Zelle account with my email address because I knew those placing book orders would be familair with the words Tales2Inspire, but preferred to keep my cell number private.
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• QUICK: When making a Zelle payment, you simply input the amount owed, the name and identifier (either e-mail or cell number, but not both) of the person you are paying, click a button and DONE. An immediate Bank-to-Bank transfer of funds takes place.

 

EASY: I asked Siri to compare Zelle with traditional payment options and up came the chart, below.

FREE: Absolutely no charges for this service.

Most major banks now use Zelle. Many are now incorporating an additional step, such as multi-factor authentication, for first time payments to any given party. 

STILL NOT CONVINCED? If you're still not sure this is for you, do what I did: Ask a friend if you could Zelle them $1. Once it arrives, have them return the favor and Zelle $1. back to you.  

CAUTION

Only use Zelle to make payments to people you know and trust. To avoid falling victim to a scam, never use Zelle to buy goods or services from online marketplaces or strangers. 

SINCE USING ZELLE, MY BOOK SALES HAVE TRIPLED:

Since I have published all twelve of my Tales2Inspire books with Amazon KDP, I came up with a creative idea for selling more books while offering Zelle as a payment option. It all starts with a Jotform I created, and you can create one too, for free. Click here, to check it out (or copy and paste https://form.jotform.com/260094023611041 into your browser). 

COMING SOON: A whole new Sharing with Writers section, where I'll be sharing details of my project and inviting readers to post their best marketing tips as well. 

A MINI CONTEST FOR OUR MOST POPULAR POSTED REVIEWS

Hi, It's Lois W. Stern here, Your TheNewBookReview Associate, with another idea to keep you and your book in the news.

As you already know, Carolyn and I are forever looking for new ways to give our followers a bit more Free exposure on TheNewBookReview blog. Many of you have been submitting your ‘Bestie’ book reviews to us, and I’m getting them posted as quickly as I can. And as a bonus, I create a nifty banner which you are free to use wherever you like. It’s just one way to get both your readers and the search engines to notice you and get a bit of extra free exposure for your book(s). So keep those reviews coming, using the template at: https://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/2026/01/send-us-your-fav-book-review.html. 

Enter our new mini contest: 

We’ve started a new contest: A GREAT REVIEWS SELL BOOKS contest, so don’t keep yours a secret. Every time someone views your posted review, it automatically registers another vote for your book. So here’s the thing: Keep sending others to the link for your posted review ‘cause all reviews posted through the end of 2026 are entered into our TheNewBookReviewBlogSpot Most Popular Books contest. The tally ends on June 30, 2027. Winners are those whose posted review(s) get the highest number of views here on TNBR.  If you haven’t yet sent us a proud-to-share review for any of your books, CLICK HERE to use this form to do so, (or copy and paste: https://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/2026/01/send-us-your-fav-book-review.html into your browser.) 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR OUR WINNERS: 

Winners' names and book titles will be posted on the page linked to the gold ribbed seal appearing on the sidebar of our blog)* at no cost to you, along with a link to your posted review. It’s just one more way to add a little ZING to your name and book title and make the search engines take notice. 

It’s also a great way for you authors to get some additional exposure, so why not give it a try? It’s Free and maybe one time a review for your book will be the lucky winner! And by the way, it’s perfectly okay if you’d like to remind possible readers that you have a fave review on our blog, complete with the permalink to make it easy for them to find. Phase one of this contest begins now. But don’t worry if you haven’t yet submitted a review, any reviews submitted after today will also be considered automatic entries.

Here's to getting more eyeballs focused on your books!

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Lois W. Stern, TheNewBookReview Associate and Facilitator, works with a passion to help other authors strengthen their visibility on this blog and elsewhere.  She is also the creator of Tales2Inspire®, an Authors Helping Authors project/contest to help aspiring writers on their paths to discovery. And best of all, her services are Free. As such, Lois serves as an outreach to help other authors brand themselves as authors of talent. She has now published twelve Tales2Inspire® treasured anthologies and six award winning Tales2Inspire 2-in-1 Diamond Collection anthologies of her contest winners' stories. Lois is a multi award winning author herself, whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Newsday, Long Island Press, Barnard Magazine, on Local Access TV, The Authors Show podcast and in live presentations in varied venues. 

                              CLICK HERE to get a FREE Tales2Inspire book with six of those award winning stories.

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MORE ABOUT #THENEWBOOKREVIEW BLOG MORE ABOUT #THENEWBOOKREVIEW BLOG The New Book Review is blogged by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers. Authors, readers, publishers, and reviewers may republish the reviews of books they want to share with others; that includes authors who want to share their favorite reviews, reviewers who'd like to see their reviews get more exposure, and readers who want to shout out praise of books they've read and love. NewBookReview associate Lois W. Stern is the silver circle associate in charge of review submissions and the one who keeps services offered on this blog to authors free with her AuthorsHelpingAuthors projects. Please see submission guidelines in Lois W. Stern’s silver circle icons in the right column of this blog, in a tab at the top of this blog's home page, or go directly to the submission guidelines at https://bit.ly/ThePlacetoRecycleBookReviews. (WARNING some cell phones cut off the right column of this blog, so try it using your desktop!) Carolyn Wilhelm is our IT expert, an award-winning author and veteran educator. Reviews, interviews, and articles on this blog are indexed by genre, reviewers' names, and review sites so #TheNewBookReview may be used as a resource for most anyone in the publishing industry. As an example, writers will find this blog's search engine (the link is also found in the right column!) handy for gleaning the names of small publishers. Find other writer-related blogs at SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com and #FrugalSmartTuned-InEditor.blogspot.com. Learn more about the team using our frequent hashtags: #TheFrugalbookPromoter, #CarolynHowardJohnson, #TheNewBookReview, #TheFrugalEditor, #SharingwithWriters, #reading #BookReviews #GreatBkReviews #BookMarketing and Carolyn’s website, HowToDoItFrugally https://bit.ly/ThePlacetoRecycleBookReviews.

A NewBookReview Essay on Book Magic We Rarely Consider

Dear Subscribers and Visitors: 

     You might already know that I (the longtime blogger of this #TheNewBookReview) and my longtime associate Lois W. Stern don’t do reviews. It is the new book review where people who love books can send their own reviews and authors and publishers can extend the exposure of their books by re-sharing their favorite reviews with us (see guidelines for that process below in the “More About” this blog section!) and with readers looking for new books of both well known and new authors.  

    So this essay about a newly published book is a first coming direct from me. I was inspired by a media release I just received for a new book that reminded me of the values--some of them rarely mentioned--of books.  This one touched me because it is a way to learn about a part of the US that I knew nothing about in spite of living in many cities and states and having traveled by car cross-country many times--both before there were any freeways (seriously) to today. Needless to say, some of those trips were made before most people rarely traveled by partially because it was so expensive. And, yes, I still missed knowing anything about the large peninsula region of our far north known as Michigan's UPPER PENINSULA.  

   I couldn’t resist sharing this book with you hoping that might do the same for a good number of our New Book Review readers. Of course times and communication are different than they were way back then, but I am still believe it will be a must-read for today's huge segment of American history buffs.   

     Victor Volkman, the publisher, says, 

          

          "Thanks Carolyn!

                   "Very sweet of you to take notice of our little project.  I never thought of this way until you mentioned it.  But the Upper   

              Peninsula is really is a microcosm of America--everything is in there from colony times to industrial revolution to civil war and  

              beyond.  One man lived through the most transformative era we will ever know, his name is KAWBAWGAM.”

   

       So, here is a little about this book from Modern History Press’s press release,  edited and abbreviated (as is permissible with media releases) for #TheNewBookReview audiences:

MEDIA RELEASE

MARQUETTE, Mich. — September 25, 2026 — Modern History Press of Ann Arbor announces the publication of Charley Kawbawgam: Ojibwa Chief and Lake Superior Pioneer, the first illustrated biography of Chief Kawbawgam written specifically for elementary and middle school students.

Award-winning Marquette author Tyler R. Tichelaar, who previously wrote a full-length scholarly biography of Kawbawgam, brings the Ojibwa tribal history [and its chief’s remarkable life] to a younger audience. The book combines biography, Upper Peninsula History including the Obwith timelines, discussion questions, educational activities, and project ideas designed to help readers understand Kawbawgam’s life and the nineteenth-century world in which he lived. Charley Kawbawgam is the second book in Modern History Press’ new middle-grade Yooper Heroes series.  

Sixteen pencil-and-ink illustrations bring the story to life. Upper Michigan artists Joanna Walitalo and Bruce “Buck” Denomie created the artwork, with Denomie, a member of the Ojibwa First Nations tribe, helping ensure historical accuracy. Several illustrations are based on historical photographs of the Kawbawgam family and Ojibwa life.

Artwork from author Tyler R. Tichelaar’s newest release. 

METADATA

Charley Kawbawgam: Ojibwa Chief and Lake Superior Pioneer (ISBN-13 979-8-89656-142-2 paperback; 979-8-89656-143-9 hardcover; 979-8-89656-144-6 eBook) is available from ModernHistoryPress.com, Ingram, Amazon and other retailers. Review copies are available to reporters and professional book reviewers by request at info@modernhistorypress.com

MORE ABOUT #THENEWBOOKREVIEW BLOG 

#TheNewBookReview is blogged by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers. Authors, readers, publishers, and reviewers may republish the reviews of books they want to share with others; that includes authors who want to share their favorite reviews, reviewers who'd like to see their reviews get more exposure, and readers who want to shout out praise of books they've read and love. 

#TheNewBookReview associate Lois W. Stern is the silver circle associate in charge of review submissions and the one who keeps services offered on this blog to authors free with her AuthorsHelpingAuthors projects. Please see submission guidelines in Lois W. Stern’s silver circle icons in the right column of this blog, in a tab at the top of this blog's home page, or go directly to the submission guidelines at https://bit.ly/ThePlacetoRecycleBookReviews. (WARNING some cell phones cut off the right column of this blog, so try it using your desktop!) Carolyn Wilhelm is our IT expert, an award-winning author and veteran educator. 

 Reviews, interviews, and articles on this blog are indexed by genre, reviewers' names, and review sites so #TheNewBookReview may be used as a resource for most anyone in the publishing industry. As an example, writers will find this blog's search engine (the link is also found in the right column!) handy for gleaning the names of small publishers. Find other writer-related blogs at SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com and #FrugalSmartTuned-InEditor.blogspot.com. Learn more about the team using our frequent hashtags: #TheFrugalbookPromoter, #CarolynHowardJohnson, #TheNewBookReview, #TheFrugalEditor, #SharingwithWriters, #reading #BookReviews #GreatBkReviews #BookMarketing and Carolyn’s website, HowToDoItFrugally https://bit.ly/ThePlacetoRecycleBookReviews.