By Shannon Yarbrough on December 10, 2010
It’s been exactly one month since the release of my third book, Are You Sitting Down?.
December 1st marked the end of my month long give away over at GoodReads which I discussed in my last post. 974 people entered the contest to win one of the 5 copies I was giving away. And 159 people have added the book to their “to read” list. After the contest ended, I even received an email through GoodReads from another reader who was sad she didn’t win, and asked politely if I could spare another copy.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on December 9, 2010
We received an interesting phone call today from a medical bookstore looking for “book panels.” Since we had no idea what that was, we asked the bookstore to ask their customer what a “book panel” was used for. She explained that it’s a sticker an author signs which can be mailed to a reader to put in the author’s book if the book isn’t present for the author to sign. The customer was actually talking about book plates!
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By Shannon Yarbrough on November 17, 2010
Last week I reintroduced my POD Diary with a post about beginning book marketing for my most recent book, Are You Sitting Down?. Here’s a recap of how the first week went down:
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By Shannon Yarbrough on November 12, 2010
June 8, 2009 was when I wrapped up my POD Diary here on LLBR, an online account of my journey into formatting, publishing, marketing, and selling my 2nd book, Stealing Wishes pretty much from the start to the end of the first year of the book being in print.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on August 9, 2010
I’ve always been a cheerleader for investing in copies of your own book for various reasons. This always becomes part of the great debate of how much money an author should invest in their book to make it successful. Remember, if you are a self-published author, you wear many hats: writer, editor, publisher, and marketer. Before considering self-publishing, you should consider how much money you are willing to spend on marketing your project.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on May 24, 2010
In March 2009, I began writing an article for LLBR about how to market your book on Amazon. The result of that article turned into a longer project that I decided to publish as a small book. Taking advantage of Lulu’s free ISBN at the time, I released it as a 93 page guide that included my POD Diary which I wrote throughout the first year of marketing my book, Stealing Wishes.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on August 31, 2009
Congrats to fellow LLBR reviewers, LK Gardner-Griffie and Dan Marvin! Both of their books made the Top BookBuzzr Books list for August 2009 according to the BookBuzzr newsletter today.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on August 30, 2009
It’s been a busy summer for me! Working in the textbook industry for me is like the month of December for retailers, except our rush season starts July 5th and lasts for almost three months as college bookstores prepare for students to return to campus. After coming home from a grueling day, the last thing I wanted to do was to look at a book, much less anything related to books. But Facebook and its many “Oregon Trail” like games helped to distress my busy mind supplying a numbing sensation and much time wasted watching virtual crops grow.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on August 20, 2009
I was excited to get an email from Amazon.com’s Author Central Team yesterday announcing they had finally given a bit more spotlight to the Author Central program. As you may recall, in the past if you had an Amazon Connect blog it could be found right at the bottom of your product page. Amazon decided that blogs probably ate up too much selling space, so they launched a new program called Author Central.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on July 2, 2009
I posted about Amazon’s new improved Author Central pages this time last month. While setting up my own page, I decided to email Amazon and ask them about my Amazon Connect blog being removed from my book’s pages. I received a reply today:
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