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Celebrate Reading, Book Trailers and More SLJ’s Trailie Award Finalists are Announced: The Best Book Trailer Award The voting is open. On my sister site, BookTrailerManual.com, I’ve posted the videos for you to watch. Be sure to vote for your favorite. Awards will be announced on October 22. Celebrate Reading Holly Cupala is celebrating! She [...]
The Arkansas Literary Festival took place last weekend and was great fun. Literacy on the Lawn, Arkansas Governor’s Mansion The festival began for me with the arrival of my friend, Dori Butler, who was staying at my house. She was supposed to arrive early on Thursday, so we could visit, but the flights were delayed [...]
I am going to concentrate on plot for a while; but for those interested in an author’s website, especially an author’s blog, here’s a great program. Darren Rouse, of the ProBlogger.net site, has put together a series of 31 lessons on developing a better blog. He ran the series in 2007 (this is a good [...]
Lauren Bjorkman Debuts with MY INVENTED LIFE Introduced first in 2007, debut children’s authors have formed a cooperative effort to market their books. Last year, I featured many of the Class of 2k8 on Revision Notes, as they told the stories of how 2k8 Novels Were Revised. Today, I’m glad to continue the 2k9 Series [...]
GIVE UP THE GHOST by Megan Crewe Introduced first in 2007, debut children’s authors have formed a cooperative effort to market their books. Last year, I featured many of the Class of 2k8 on Revision Notes, as they told the stories of how 2k8 Novels Were Revised. Today, I’m glad to continue the 2k9 Series [...]
Random Acts of Publicity: Social Media We’ve all heard about the social media and many are experimenting with doing book publicity via these channels. What is really possible?
Random Acts of Publicity: Links Why should you care about linking to a friend’s book? Google. And other search engines. Ever wondered how to get your page to show up on the #1 position on a Google search query?
Random Acts of Publicity: Reviews Reviews add credibility: they are the marketer’s tool of using a testimonial. The twist on Amazon and other sites is that celebrity testimonials don’t matter as much as
ROAD TO TATER HILL by Edith Hemingway Introduced first in 2007, debut children’s authors have formed a cooperative effort to market their books. Last year, I featured many of the Class of 2k8 on Revision Notes, as they told the stories of how 2k8 Novels Were Revised. Today, I’m glad to continue the 2k9 Series [...]
Random Acts of Publicity: Word of Mouth About a dozen times these past few weeks, I’ve found myself saying, “Have you seen ‘Julie and Julia’? It’s so funny. Meryl Streep just becomes Julia.” Yes, word-of-mouth is still the best publicity.
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