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 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 LK Gardner-Griffie on June 2, 2009
We’ve mentioned that we now would like to post online previews of your work along with the written review, so that any readers of the review can not only see what our opinion is, but can check the work for themselves and see whether they agree or disagree.
Posted in LK Gardner-Griffie, Marketing, Reviews | Tagged BookBuzzr, books, ll book review, preview, Reviews |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 30, 2009
I’m always on the look out for a good marketing tip to share with our authors! Yesterday, I was given a reusable “green” shopping bag from a university bookstore and as soon as I saw the word “bookstore” printed on the bag I thought it would be an excellent promotional item if authors printed a picture of their book’s cover on the bag.
Posted in LK Gardner-Griffie, Marketing, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book bag, book cover cookies, going green, marketing bag, photo cookies, reusable bag, wonderland bakery |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 27, 2009
Yesterday, I posted about an email blast I got from Lulu saying my book had been picked to be part of the Amazon Marketplace program. Today, I have more information to add to that for the authors who are in the dark just as much as I am over the information presented in this Lulu email, or lack thereof.
Posted in Marketing, News, Opinions, Sales, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged alisiyad, amazon lulu listing, amazon marketplace, amazon z store, lulu joins marketplace, lulu marketplace, lulu.com, lulupress, sarah suleski, selling on amazon |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on May 1, 2009
Allyson and Sondra Ames are living their dream. Every day they arise knowing that Wonderland awaits them. This mother and daughter duo run the acclaimed Wonderland Bakery in Newport Beach, CA. Allyson recognized her passion for food at a very early age and has been encouraged in her endeavors by her entreprenurial and visionary mother, Sondra. Together the two of them have created an enchanted bakery to dazzle and delight all visitors.
Posted in LK Gardner-Griffie, Marketing | Tagged book festival, book marketing, LA Times Book Festival, wonderland bakery |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 10, 2009
Here’s the list I think everyone has been waiting for! And special thanks to all of those authors out there who contributed.
We asked for your best (and most bizarre) tips, and we got them. It’s a nice mix of internet based and in-person tips. From the most obvious like joining MySpace to a website to personalize Mardi Gras beads…there’s definitely something here for everyone.
So without further delay, and in no particular order, here’s 50 marketing tips for authors – some free, some cheap, and some even not so cheap.
Posted in Marketing, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged author marketing, author marketing tips, book marketing, book marketing tips, free marketing tips, Lulu.com marketing tools, marketing your book |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 4, 2009
Book Trailers! We’ve all seen them since they’ve taken over YouTube and author blogs lately. They’ve become a must have for self-published authors when it comes to marketing. Just search Google for Book Trailers and you’ll find loads of them and loads of companies and vid-techies who are willing to help make one for you. From programs allowing you to do it yourself for minimal fees to web designers charging hundreds of dollars for the use of images and music, your possibilities are endless.
Posted in Marketing, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book trailer, book trailer tips, book trailers, book video, marketing your book, youtube book trailer |
By Shannon Yarbrough on August 22, 2008
Congratulations to LK Gardner-Griffie. She won this month’s marketing contest and receives a free copy of the book 1001 Ways to Market Your Books. Stay tuned because LK’s own book will be reviewed later this month as part of our teen focus for Back to School.
Posted in Announcements, Marketing, Shannon Yarbrough |
