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Book Marketing Q&A: Marketing Without an Author Platform
Author Marketing Tip: Find someone who loves you (a teenager, a neighbor, a friend, an acquaintance) and hire them to help you book some interviews if you cannot book those interviews yourself. Then have fun doing those interviews or those speaking engagements. Book Marketing Question I know 80% of books are sold by word of […]
Book Marketing Tip: Libraries Sell Books
In early May, three libraries in Chicago suburbs used an interactive webinar to host Adriana Trigiani, the author of The Shoemaker’s Wife, in a simultaneous virtual book tour. Adriana and the three libraries were hooked up with their own web cams. People at each library were able to see and hear all four web cams […]
Question: Marketing Children’s Books and Poetry Books
Author’s Question: My wife and I have several children’s books and poetry books out to the public and for sale as paperbacks at Amazon.com. We also have ebooks on Booktango.com, BookRix.com, and Smashwords.com as well as audiobooks on Meeqi.com and AXC.com. We market constantly and have contacted several newspapers asking them to carry the releases […]
Andrew Stanton on the Power of Storytelling
This video features a TED talk by screenwriter Andrew Stanton on why and how to tell stories. It will help you learn how to tell more moving, more effective stories. Here are a few of the points he made during this talk. They are worth paying attention to if you want to write better books, […]