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Each year we get a lot of questions about Book Expo (BEA). Authors and publishers are wondering if they should go, how they will benefit from it and most importantly, how best to maximize BEA. This year I decided to ask AME\’s Publishing Consultant, Jerry D. Simmons for his take on BEA. Having spent countless hours at this event, I thought he would be a perfect candidate to share some valuable insight on this big publishing event!

1) For those who are reading this who don\’t know what BEA is, can you explain what it is?

As I have intimated in previous offerings, the research that goes into writing a historical novel can be almost minimal, or can entail weeks and months of endeavor. If one wishes to write about something as remote as the caravans carrying silk in the ancient days over the Silk Road through China, Tibet and associated areas, the work required could be substantial. One of the best novels set in similar surroundings was Thomas Costain\’s The Black Rose that sold over six hundred thousand copies in its first printing. Costain had a long and varied career as an editor and for several years as director of 20th Century Fox\’s story development department. He retired at 57 years of age to devote his time to writing, and his fiction was notable for its reliance on historical facts, but always pertinent to his story.

If you enjoy writing, you can build a highly profitable home business just by writing articles for the Web. Although I\’m a writer, I buy articles, and so do most other businesses which operate online.

Why are articles popular as Web content? Simply because the more content a Web site has, the more traffic the site gets. That traffic leads to sales. So in a nutshell: articles get traffic and traffic equals income for a Web site.

Although article marketing\’s old hat online, new trends in advertising and Web search have pushed it into new popularity. If you\’re a writer, you can take advantage of this new venue for your writing.

Let\’s start by defining what \”article marketing\” is. In essence, it\’s a form of online advertising. A Web site publishes short articles to online article directories. These articles include a \”resource box\”, which is an advertisement for the site.

Since content is valuable, the article marketer syndicates content to sites in exchange for the opportunity to push his advertising message.