Well, we did it a little different this year. For the past few years, AuthorsBookshop.com has proudly displayed itself and bunches of indie books for all of Baltimore to see at the Baltimore Book Festival.
I decided to take a year off. I wasn’t able to commit to the whole weekend this year, and [...]

Michael and I have been to some book and literary fairs all over the world, but the Baltimore Book Festival is one of the best. For one thing, it’s held every year in a picturesque area of the city called Mount Vernon, which resembles nothing so much as a European cathedral town; even though it’s [...]

I just wanted to drop a quick post to say we made it through the Baltimore Book Festival, and it was a pretty amazing experience this year. We sold a lot of books, signed up a bunch of new authors, awarded the first ever ABIE award and spread the Indie Publishing Gospel to many [...]

One of my favorite things about hosting the AuthorsBookshop booth at the Baltimore Book Festival every year is giving indie authors an opportunity to meet their readers and sign books.

We have a great schedule this year – Saturday is particularly packed. Great books, great authors… come on down and meet them.

Friday, Sept [...]

I know you love book festivals. We usually have to wait months in between them, but not this weekend in the Baltimore/DC area. It’s book festival madness!

Three great festivals are going on at once, all within the Baltimore/DC region. Of course, the IndieBookMan crew will be representin’ at the AuthorsBookshop booth at [...]

Show #2 will be broadcast live this Wednesday, September 23rd at 8PM e.s.t.
Thank you so much to all who tuned in last show, we had a good crowd and really hope to build on it this week!

The IndieBookMan radio show, hosted by AuthorsBookshop.com owner Brad Grochowski is a live broadcast talk show on Unbrella Radio [...]

I think I have a new hero. His name is Christopher Herz, from Canal Publishing and his book is The Last Block in Harlem.

This guy takes indie/guerrilla marketing to absolute new heights. What he does is called “handselling,” and that in-and-of itself is nothing new. As the name implies, it’s basically making sales [...]

I am an active user of Amazon.com’s author-promotion mechanisms. I have an author-blog on my book’s Amazon page, I submitted my book so it’s searchable on Amazon, I have submitted a review written by an independent reviewer for display on my book’s Amazon page. So far so good. However: the book I’m pitching is among [...]

Media distribution…..well, things have changed just a little…..this post is for Baltimore readers.
One afternoon in the Winter of 1983 I was riding in my Granddaddy Irv’s car in Miami. Grandma Lil was in the passenger seat, my mother and I were in the back. We were discussing my decision to go into business. [...]

We are really looking forward to the Baltimore Book Festival this year. It was a great time last year, we sold a lot of books, registered many new books and got to spread the word about how great indie publishing is.

But this year, we plan to try something new. We are going to [...]