Posted in Book Promotion, Interviews, Uncategorized, tagged Book Promotion, conference, book expo, BEA, jerry d. simmons, penny sansevieri, marketing experts on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Interview by Penny Sansevieri
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. [...]
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A Complete Guide to Promoting and Selling Your Self-Published Ebook
by Dorothy Thompson
http://www.pumpupyourbookpromotion.com
With the rise of the internet, electronic book publishing has become extremely popular. It’s relatively easy and inexpensive to create an ebook and sell it from a website. The hard part comes afterwards. Once the book is published, how do you promote it? [...]
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What was your inspiration for your first novel, Ghost Road Blues? What’s it about?
It got started in a couple of different ways. My grandmother (who died in 1978 at 101) told me as a boy about the myths and legends –or as she called them ‘beliefs’ of the supernatural. I grew up knowing [...]
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Over the years, authors who wanted to promote their books directly to the public had one main option; you had to physically travel across the country conducting book signings and readings in various bookstores and praying that people would show up. This meant spending money on flights, hotels, transportation and meals. This traditional type of [...]
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Just like Christmas is a wonderful time for children’s book authors to market their Christmas picture books, Halloween is the perfect time for horror authors. There are many events you can plan ahead of time to sell books during the spooky month of October. For instance, you may do book signings at normal bookstores, or, [...]
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Welcome to The Dark Phantom Review, Dorothy. It’s a pleasure to have you here. As I can see, you have many hats. Why don’t you start by putting on your publicist hat and telling our readers what a publicist can do for an author that the author cannot do himself?
Hi, Mayra, and thanks for asking [...]
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From Book to Bestseller
By Penny Sansevieri
Morgan James Publishing
www.morganjamespublishing.com
ISBN: 1600370853
Copyright 2006
Paperback, 354 pages, $12.21
Non-fiction/Marketing
From [...]
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The Ghost Mirror
by Jamieson Wolf
www.etreasurespublishing.com
Copyright 2007
Ebook/Paperback
YA/Dark Fantasy
Thirteen-year old Mave is no ordinary girl. For one thing, she happens to be a black-eyed, redheaded powerful witch, so much so that even her own parents fear her. Not understanding her powers, her mom and dad have chosen to ignore and neglect her to the point of emotional [...]
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Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers
By Shel Horowitz
AWM Books
ISBN: 0-9614666-3-3
Copyright 2007
Writing/Publishing
If you’re serious about book promotion, this work by marketing guru Shel Horowitz is one you’ll want to add to your permanent reference shelf.
The book, which is divided into four main parts—Creating a Marketable Book, Publicity, Getting into-and out of-Bookstores and Libraries, and Advanced [...]
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Virtual Book Tour Lesson One
What is a virtual book tour? Like a regular book tour, you go around talking about your book, yourself, and your writing. The ultimate goal, of course, is to generate sales, but mostly, you’re creating a buzz in hopes that people who might otherwise never learn about your work have a [...]
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