By Shannon Yarbrough on June 28, 2009
John Buckman is one of my favorite people. For over a year now I have been a member of and passionately promoted his website called BookMooch. BookMooch is an online book swapping community where you list books you want to give away to gain points to mooch books you want from other members. You earn more points from members who mooch books from you. The only expense is the cost to ship your own mooched books. To date, I have given away almost 80 books on BookMooch and received 62 other books I wanted to read.
Posted in Announcements, Marketing, News, Promotions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book giveaway, book marketing, book mooch, bookmooch, free book, generosity book, john buckman, POD, POD marketing, print on demand, self published, self-published book marketing, Self-Publishing |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 28, 2009
I love Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s Frugal Book Series. The first two (The Frugal Book Editor and The Frugal Book Promoter) are must-haves for any self-published author! Her latest is geared toward retailers, primarily independent business owners, but I jumped at the chance to review it only because I knew I’d find something I could use toward my own book marketing and indeed I did.
Posted in Educational, Promotions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged author promotions, carolyn howard-johnson, retail promos, retailer guide to sales, retailer promotions, the frugal in-store promotion guide |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 25, 2009
The Publetariat Vault brings literary works already proven in the commercial marketplace to the direct
attention of acquisitions pros, thereby reducing their risk. For authors, this means no query, no agent, no
“connections” are needed.
Posted in Announcements, Marketing, Promotions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged april hamilton, gatekeeper system, indie authors, publetariat, publisherfail, publishing acquisitions, Self-Publishing |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 4, 2009
Have any other authors out there received an email from Amazon saying your new Author Central page is ready? I received mine earlier this week. I immediately signed in to take a look. I added a picture, a biography, and also updated my bibliography to include the books that LuluPress has listed on Amazon now including an early chapbook of my poetry I put together in 2006 as a gift for my Mom and Dad.
Posted in Announcements, Marketing, Promotions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon blog, amazon connect, amazon.com, author central, author connect |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 23, 2009
Wordclay has teamed up with Smashwords and is running a great deal this month on E-Book formatting. For just $75.00 (regularly $150) Wordclay will properly format your manuscript for you to be sold as an E-book in 9 different formats on Smashwords.
Posted in E-publishing, Promotions, Shannon Yarbrough, Wordclay | Tagged e-book, e-book formatting, smashwords, smashwords style guide, Wordclay |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on April 13, 2009
YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Assocation) which is the fastest growing division of the ALA (American Library Association) decided in 2007 to create a Support Teen Literature Day in conjunction with ALA’s National Library Week, which occurs during the month of April. This concept has really covered some ground in the past two years, and we are quickly approaching the 3rd annual Support Teen Literature Day on April 16th. Support Teen Literature Day occurs each year on the Thursday of National Library Week.
Posted in LK Gardner-Griffie, Promotions | Tagged ALA, dawson vosburg, double life, LK Gardner-Griffie, operation TBD, s.a. hunter, scary mary, teen books, teen lit day, teen literature, teenager reading, YALSA, young adult library services association |
By Shannon Yarbrough on February 21, 2009
In March, Lulu.com is having a contest and rewarding the top 3 best selling books of the month. The three highest selling author’s in March will receive $1,500, $750 and $500. The books will also be highlighted in an email blast, the Lulu newsletter, and the first place winner will receive an interview from the Lulu blog.
Posted in Promotions | Tagged book contest, book marketing, book sales, lulu author, lulu author sales contest, lulu.com, sales contest |
By Shannon Yarbrough on November 20, 2008
If you read the beginning of the POD Diary, you know that my book STEALING WISHES was entered in a contest at Amazon.com last year, The Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award. I made it through the first round of cuts, but was out of the contest after the semi-finalists were narrowed down to 800 back in [...]
Posted in Announcements, Promotions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged abna 2009, amazon breakthrough novel award, amazon.com |
By Shannon Yarbrough on August 9, 2008
Since the LLBR has just reached its 5 month birthday, and will hit 9,000 visitors this weekend, we think this calls for a celebration! We’ve been itching to have a contest and give away books so here we go…
Posted in Announcements, Marketing, Promotions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged 1001 ways to market your books, book, book contest, book marketing, contest, free book, john kremer, lulu book review, lulu.com, Marketing, POD, print on demand, Self-Publishing |
