Just read this in Publisher’s Weekly. It’s an older article but its point is timeless.
A man by the name of Rupert Isaacson got the interest of Curtis Brown agent Elizabeth Sheinkman in representing him for his book, The Horse Boy, about his forthcoming trip to Mongolia with his son on horseback to visit shamans, which [...]
Archive for March, 2010
How to Use YouTube to Land a 7-Figure Publishing Deal
Posted by admin on March 24th, 2010
Posted in Articles 
Tags: autism, book marketing, book trailers, Curtis Brown, Elizabeth Sheinkman, Mongolia, Rupert Isaacson, sell your book, shamans, The Horse Boy, YouTube 
1 Comment »Shining the Book Promotion Spotlight on Sheila Roberts
Posted by admin on March 24th, 2010
Sheila Roberts lives in the Pacific Northwest. She’s happily married and has three children. She has had twenty-five books published, both in fiction and nonfiction under different names and in different languages. Her novels have been optioned for book clubs and film. Her book Angel Lane was an Amazon Top Ten Romance pick for [...]
Posted in Guest Interviews Tags: book marketing, book marketing ideas, book marketing plan, book marketing services, book promotion company, book promotion ideas, book promotion sites, book promotion tips, book promotion websites, book promotions, book publicity, how to promote your book, online book promotion, Sheila Roberts, Small Change, women's fiction 2 Comments »Effective book marketing using Facebook, news trends and Skype
Posted by admin on March 24th, 2010
I found a really interesting article called “32 Ways to Use Facebook for Business” at WebWorker Daily. There were several reasons I liked it, but the main reason was how Facebook can be used as a highly effective business tool. Authors need to keep in mind that their books are their business [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: book marketing, book marketing buzz, book marketing plan, book marketing services, book promotion ideas, book promotion opportunities, book promotion tips, book promotions, news trends, online book promotion, online promotions, promote your book, promote your book online, sell your book, Skype 1 Comment »Book Promotion Tip of the Day: Make me laugh and I’ll follow you anywhere
Posted by admin on March 22nd, 2010
I’m going to keep it light and simple. Make me laugh and I’ll follow you anywhere.
In my Pump Up Your Blog e-group last Friday, The Cajun Book Lady was telling us about an author who guest posted at her blog that morning. His name was Brian O’Mara-Croft, author of Lost in the Hive (PublishingWorks) but [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers Tags: book marketing, book marketing buzz, book marketing ideas, book promotion blog, book promotion ideas, book promotion opportunities, book promotion tips, book promotions, book promotions sites, Brian O'Mara-Croft, how to promote your book, how to sell your book, ways to promote your book 2 Comments »Help me to help you promote your blog
Posted by admin on March 17th, 2010
It happens all the time. I come upon a wonderful blog post and want to help the blogger out by spreading the link, only…the only way I can do that is to copy the link into Tiny Url, then head over to Twitter, Facebook, Bookblips, wherever. What some bloggers don’t realize is that there is [...]
Shining the book promotion spotlight on George Earl Parker
Posted by admin on March 16th, 2010
As director of the short film The Yellow Submarine Sandwich, included in Eric Idle’s pseudo-documentary of a band called the Rutles, George Earl Parker received accolades, awards, and a showing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
His art has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the country, and three of his [...]
Posted in Guest Interviews Tags: blog tour, book promotions, book publicity, BookLocker, Count Dracula, European Country Music Association, George Earl Parker, literary fiction, literary humor, literary humor fiction, metaphysical, Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans, online book publicity, promote your book, Pump Up Your Book, Rutles, sell your book, singer, songwriter, vampires, Vampyre Blood, virtual book tour 2 Comments »Talking Virtual Book Tours with Hiking Enthusiast & Author Paul V. Stutzman
Posted by admin on March 15th, 2010
I have a very special guest today. Paul V. Stutzman, author of the memoir, Hiking Through: Finding Peace and Power on the Appalachian Trail, has been on a virtual book tour since March 1 and will continue appearing on blogs throughout the world until the end of April.
So far, he has become Virginia Beach Publishing [...]
Posted in Guest Interviews Tags: adventure, Appalachian Trail, blog tour, book campaign, book marketing, book marketing buzz, book promotions, book publicists, book publicity, breast cancer, cancer, grief, hiking, hiking backpacks, hiking the Appalachian trail, hiking the appalacihians, hiking through, hiking trails, hiking trails in Appalachians, mountain hiking tips, mountain hiking trails, mountain hiking trails U.S., online book promotion, promote your book, sell your book, Smoky Mountains, spirituality, virtual book tour 1 Comment »Are You Oprah Material?
Posted by admin on March 13th, 2010
I truly believe that if someone took every author in the world and divided them into two groups, those groups would be–the dreamers and the realists, with no fine line in between.
Think of an author friend you know. You can pretty well figure out which category they would fall in. On the one side, you [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: book marketing, book marketing buzz, book promotions, oprah, promote your book, sell your book 1 Comment »Book Tour? More Like A Safari
Posted by admin on March 13th, 2010
With publisher publicity departments backing away from traditional author tours, writers are left to their own devices (and strangers’ couches). A cat peeing in an author’s bag? A writer waking up to discover that a complete stranger has left him four jars of delicious homemade preserves? Such things are not traditionally part of book promotion. [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: book marketing buzz, book promotions, book tour, how to promote your book, how to sell your book, online book promotion Comments OffAre you taking advantage of Amazon Associate Affiliate system?
Posted by admin on March 11th, 2010
How many of us are bloggers who write blog posts about books – whether it’s a review or you’re hosting an author and want to include the book cover?
Did you know that you could actually be making money off of this?
I just read an interesting article. Although it was an older article, it makes [...]
