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Note: Fiction Notes is on vacation until August 1. See you then! Last year, I interviewed Joelle Anthony about her use of a GoodReads giveaway to promote her book. One of her biggest reasons to go with GoodReads is that she had 1348 people enter the giveaway. Here are some other interesting statistics from GoodReadshere [...]
YA for Dummies and Prairie Storms What sounds does a ground hog make? An earless lizard? A burrowing owl? Six months ago, I had no idea! When I decided to create a book trailer for my forthcoming book, PRAIRIE STORMS, I knew I wanted something fun and useful for kids, parents and educators. We know [...]
Life has been full! Here are some pics to prove it! Arkansas Literary Festival School Visits: Paris Elementary and Cherry Valley Elementary After School Quilts I wish I could show you the kids who made these quilts (privacy issues!). They had a blast. There were five boys and one girl and everyone had a great [...]
Here’s my Facebook Tale of Woe: Once you sign up for Facebook, you can request a UserName at facebook.com/username. So, I tried to do this for MY FAN PAGE! Instead, FB gave me the username for my Profile. That means if people search for me on FB, they’ll find my profile. But I wanted them [...]
Celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday with Read Across America Day, sponsored by the National Education Association. Here’s a couple shots from my school visits yesterday.
Amazon’s Kindle blog has this news: Thank you Kindle customers! Thanks to you, in just the first 73 days of this holiday quarter, we’ve already sold millions of our all-new Kindles with the latest E Ink Pearl display. In fact, in the last 73 days, readers have purchased more Kindles than we sold during all [...]
My fantasy novel, The Wayfinder is now available as an ebook and is climbing the charts at Amazon today. Encouraging EBook Sales Take Initiative. First, I took an OP book and put it in print as an eBook. Promotion. I’m targeting several promotion efforts over the course of this week. The Wayfinder is featured today [...]
During this Random Acts of Publicity Week, I wanted to say thanks to those who have recently mentioned one of my books. Novel Metamorphosis: Uncommon Ways to Revise Kim Winters. Go on a Revision Quest with Darcy Pattison. The Prairie Wind Newsletter of the Illinois Chapter of the SCBWI, Autumn, 2010. The Book Trailer Manual [...]
It’s official: The Book Trailer Manual has just been released! Dear Fellow Author: THE DREAM OF PUBLISHING MEETS THE REALITY OF PROMOTION OFFICIAL KICKOFF DISCOUNT Limited Time : Buy now for 25% Off Expires at midnight 8/20/2010. You’ve just sold a book and are facing the task of book promotion and publicity. Like all of [...]
BookTrailerManual.com: Blogging about book trailers This weekend, my new how-to book is released. To accompany The Book Trailer Manual, I’ve started BookTrailerManual.com, a blog about book trailers. Here’s links to the first few posts: Book Trailers: How To 15 Minute Book Trailers? Why Choose Animoto? Software Review Book Trailer Spoof If you have a new [...]
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