Archive for October, 2008
5 Good Reasons to Attend a Writers’ Conference… Even After You’re Published
Many writers sign up for writers’ conferences in hopes of getting published. Once that has been accomplished, they don’t see the need to attend more conferences. We completely disagree with this mindset.
Here are the five top reasons you should continue to attend conferences, even after you’re published:
Networking with other published writers. Being around like-minded [...]
Author Interviews
Monday October 27th
Author: William Coburn
Title: The Spanking Room
Radio Show/Station:PrimeTime Chicago on WMBI (a Moody Station)
Host: Steve Hiller
Time: 4:00 EST, 15-20 minutes LIVE
Wednesday October 29th
Author: Todd Perla
Title: End Times Church Deception
Radio Show/Station: Sherri in the Mornin’ on WGBN (PA)
Host: Sherri Johnson
Time: 10:05AM, 10 – 15 minutes, LIVE
Author: Cynthia [...]
The Five Basics of Book Publicity
You’ve written a book you’re excited about. You know it will inspire, inform, challenge, or encourage your reader.
Now comes the fun part: sit back and watch the sales roll in. After all, your book is listed on Amazon.com so there’s nothing left to do, right?
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Book Promotion
As a [...]
Tips for Building Your Online Presence
By Laura Christianson
Guest columnist
Blogs. Web sites. Social Networking.
When you ponder the plethora of the online venues from which you can promote your book, it’s hard to know where to start.
Prospective book buyers need 8-to-10 “touches” from you before they remember you, your book, or your brand. Cyberspace is a great place to reach out [...]
Author Interview Round-up
Here are next week’s WinePress and Pleasant Word author interviews.
Monday, October 20
Stuart Migdon, author of Jesus Take the Wheel, will be interviewed the Viewpoint radio show out of Richmond, VA.
Virginia Garberding, author of Please Get to Know Me, will appear on the internationally syndicated radio show, Mornings with Lorri and Larry.
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7 Tips for Properly Packing Books
If you’ve written a book or are planning to do so, you’ll need to ship them to friends, family, speaking engagements, and for publicity purposes. It’s important to pack books properly, or else they can be damaged.
Here are seven important tips for packing books safely:
1. If the box’s inside bottom flaps have a gap [...]
4 Things You Need to Know about Marketing Materials
By Mike Owens, guest columnist
In a world of fast-paced schedules and short attention spans, it’s challenging to run an effective book promotion. If you’re an author, you need to plan what marketing materials you’ll use to promote your book—far in advance of your book’s publication.
Marketing materials are any object or good used to promote [...]
Upcoming Author Interviews
• Wednesday, October 8 – Virginia Garberding, author of Please Get to Know Me, will be interviewed on He’s Alive Radio heard on nine frequencies in the North East.
• Friday, October 10th, 3:00 PM ET – Bob Flanagan, author of Growing a Soul, will be interviewed on WEMM Radio out of Huntington, WV.
• Wednesday, October [...]
How to Develop a Word-of-Mouth Book Marketing Campaign
Which are you most likely to respond to: A paid advertisement about a book, or your best friend telling you about the best book they’ve read in months? The answer is a no-brainer.
Word-of-mouth marketing is self-generating. If ten people read your book and they each tell ten other people that they have to read your [...]
From the Publisher: Hard Work Brings Profit
The Good Book instructs us that all, repeat, “all,” hard work brings a profit. It doesn’t matter if I am unskilled or ignorant of a required task; if I work hard and push forward, I will profit.
If I had known this as a teenager, my life would be dramatically different today. No longer thinking as [...]
