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I’ll be speaking at the NYC SCBWI conference at the Marketing Intensive on Friday, January 27, 2012. I’ll be talkking through two topics: book trailers and little known features of Facebook. I’m planning a presentation packed with practical information. Book Trailers for Author Promotion I have written the ebook, THE BOOK TRAILER MANUAL (www.booktrailermanual.com). Articles [...]
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 [...]
Getting Your Book Noticed Should You Social Media? Yes! No! As authors, we want to know if all this effort on FaceBook and Fan Pages and Tweets and all the other social media helps or not! Here’s a sideways answer. In a December 2010 survey of major retailers sites, 10,000 shoppers surveyed reported being influenced [...]
1384 People Interested in a Book Update on GoodReads Giveaway Joelle Anthony offered a signed copy of her novel, Restoring Harmony, as a giveaway on GoodReads. Joelle did a guest post, giving details on how to hold a giveaway on GoodReads. Congratulations to the Goodreads contest winner, Kristin Wing. Kristin is an aspiring writer herself. [...]
Guest Post by Joelle Anthony Here you go. http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/5228-restoring-harmony Giveaway on GoodReads.com Last week, we talked about book giveaways in general. Today, we have a case study on book giveaways on Goodreads.com. Thanks to Joelle Anthony for this guest post. On Your Site OR On GoodReads? Book giveaways have become a great way for authors [...]
WHAT: Random Acts of Publicity 2010 WHEN: September 7-10 Last year, I declared the week after Labor Day, as Random Acts of Publicity Week. It’s coming back this year on September 7-10. Here’s a quick summary from last year and we’ll update it with lots of fun this year! Random Acts of Publicity 2010 Are [...]
Why you Should Promote Your Back-List Books Author Alexis O’Neill has just released a video for one of her back-list titles. Most authors promote heavily newly released books, but don’t do much for titles a couple years old. I’ve asked Alexis to explain why she’s focusing on her back-list books and give us a few [...]
With the PR Notes Wednesday, I’d love to answer questions. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll go and find answers. Email your questions. Creating a Contest as Book Promotion Mary Nethery took the time to ask this book promotion question:
PR Notes: Start with Optimized Websites The first thing you should do for book publicity promotion is a website (or a blog). I know. Most of you have one. But let’s do a check to see if it’s the most effective it could be. 1) Put your name into a search engine. Great. Your website/blog [...]
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