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I am going to vent for just a moment. I saw a tweet this morning under the heading of "Holocaust Remembrance Day" where some unfeeling jerk wrote (and POSTED) "It's Holocaust Remembrance Day and I've got gas!" Even if what this day stands for means nothing to you, even if you really just don't care, how could ANYONE tweet something so offensive? And no, I am not Jewish. But I do pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust every year. Much of my professional career has been dedicated to…
ContinuePosted on April 19, 2012 at 9:00am
I spent several hours learning how to format my previously published books into Kindle versions. One of these is When The Butterflies Flew Away, a novel about the work of art teacher Freidl Brandeis and the children she taught while in the concentration camp Terezin. Brandeis is one of my personal heroes. She went to Terzin with her suitcase full of art supplies with the goal of using art as therapy for the children there. She taught the children to draw and she encouraged them to…
ContinuePosted on March 15, 2012 at 8:18am
I confess, I am still in the dark when it comes to marketing. I am tweeting my little heart out, creating videos, sending releases to the paper, talking on facebook...and I still don't really know if any of it is making a difference.
I confess, it does bother me that the people I know personally don't buy my book. Othe authors tell me not to let it bother me, and I try. I really do. But if my friends don't support the book, why should strangers? (But I do think my fellow…
ContinuePosted on March 2, 2012 at 9:21am
I spend my days searching for ways to market The Time Of My Life to a broader audience. I had been hearing about book trailers, but only embarked on the process after reading an article in the March issue of The Writer Magazine (www.WriterMag.com)
I went with their 5 steps on how to make a book trailer. Luckily I had the windows movie making software installed, so it was just a matter of dragging photos and adding text-which took a couple of…
ContinuePosted on February 29, 2012 at 9:15am — 2 Comments
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Lynn,
You asked about virtual blog tours. I did a paid one but didn't really sell any books. The blogs I got on didn't have many visitors. Instead (the book I was pushing a unique book on personal finance for young people), I found the top personal finance blogs and contacted each of them to see if they wanted to review my book. I did it over a period of a month and a half, I also did it during a time (graduation season) when bloggers might want to do a post on "Financially Illiterate Graduates". My sales tripled, so that it payed off in both money and time spent. I have a chapter on specifically how I did it in my book, Sell More Books: Book Marketing and Publishing for Low Profile and Debut Author.
And since your books are talking about character issues, I might could link to them from my character education site at www.character-education.info. Perhaps we have a connection there.