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Collaboration: The Heart of Random Acts of Publicity

Many Hands Make Light Work – or How Two Heads are Better than One By Barbara Fisch and Sarah Shealy, friends who together run Blue Slip Media ATTEND the Random Acts of Publicity event on Facebook. Read the FAQ. Barbara: On 20 Years of Collaboration Sarah Shealy and I have worked together for over 20 [...]

Random Acts of Publicity: Raab Associates FREE Consult

Brand Building Square One: Win a Marketing Consult for Your Friend! by Susan Raab, Raab Associates ATTEND the Random Acts of Publicity event on Facebook. Read the FAQ. To kick off our Random Acts of Publicity Week, September 7-10, you have the chance to win a special gift for your friend – a marketing consult [...]

2011 Random Acts of Publicity FAQ

2011 Random Acts of Publicity FAQ ATTEND the Random Acts of Publicity event on Facebook. Read the FAQ. Who can participate? Anyone who wants to help a book get noticed by readers. We are focusing on helping a Friend’s book get noticed, but you can also choose to help your favorite book get noticed. What [...]

Win one of 17 FREE Book Marketing Consultation

Next week is the Random Acts of Publicity 2011 –JOIN us on the Facebook Event Page– and we have lots of prizes for participating. Remember: It’s all about your Friend’s book (OR, your favorite book). The week will focus on the basic tasks of publicity and ask you to do a daily Random Act of [...]

Random Acts of Publicity 2011

RANDOM ACTS OF PUBLICITY WEEK September 6-9, 2011 Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=247495138609650 It’s all about your Friend’s book. The 3rd Annual Random Acts of Publicity, September 6-8, 2011 is a week to celebrate your Friend’s book, or your favorite book, by doing a Random Act of Publicity: Blog, link, Like, review, or talk about the [...]

Report on a GoodReads Giveaway

On July 15, I reported that I was going to try a GoodReads Giveaway for my new picture book, Prairie Storms. To recap, GoodReads reports these are typical results from a giveaway: 21% of members have a book blog 750-785 people enter the average giveaway. 8% of those who enter will add the book to [...]

Random Acts of Publicity

Random Acts of Publicity: September 6-9, 2011 Save the date! For the last two years, I’ve encouraged writers to perform Random Acts of Publicity during the week after Labor Day. The Random Acts will return this year on September 6-9. If you have great ideas for this event, please email me. I’d love to do [...]

ALA 2011 in New Orleans

Just back from ALA, that great gathering of 25,000 people devoted to archiving and disseminating the best of the best of our culture. Walking around the massive exhibit hall, it is a bewildering and humbling mixture of businessmen hawking library furniture or the latest software, the old-timers and the newcomers signing books with the hope [...]

12 Tips on Submissions

I’m having a submissions day. This is true: a manuscript that is only in a drawer or only a file on your computer will not sell. It’s only when you send out a manuscript to an editor that you get a contract, a sale, a publication. Last year, I talked about reevaluating my career and [...]

Emily Dickinson Would Have Tweeted!

Social Media? No! People Person? Yes! The Soul Selects Her Own Society by Emily Dickinson The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more. Unmoved, she notes the chariot’s pausing At her low gate; Unmoved, an emperor is kneeling Upon her mat. I’ve known her from an [...]

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