All Blog Posts Tagged 'publicity' (66)

Are you --

• a novice writer wanting to learn more about the publishing industry?

• or a seasoned author wanting to know more about ebooks and how they differ from printed books?

• baffled or intimidated by social media?

• the author of a new book who needs marketing help for your title?

• clueless about where to start when it comes to mobile web, apps and interactive…

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to announce Karen Glick's Questions in the Silence Virtual Book Tour 2012beginning on January 3 and ending on January 27 2012. Karen will be on hand during her worldwide tour promoting her book and giving us candid interviews and guest posts where we learn more about the author, she will have her first Twitterview and AuthorVid as well as giving her fans an opportunity to talk to her live via a chat room on January 27 where she will be giving…

I made the following comment in one of the forums, and then I realized that this is too important to hide in one forum.

Never, ever, buy a publicity or marketing package from a print-on-demand publisher. They know nothing about marketing or publicity. Their packages are generally way too expensive for the results they produce.

Avoid their advertising packages. Avoid their Internet marketing packages. Avoid their publicity packages.

I'd be happy to change my advice if any…

C. Elizabeth

Read her guest post at…

You’re about to be interviewed on radio for the first time. Don’t get nervous just do these simple things to make the interview work for you and sales of your book.



Plan your interview

Have questions and answers prepared and if possible give them to the announcer beforehand. Okay they won’t always use these guidelines but often they’ll at least ask some of the questions (particularly if you’ve made your answers interesting). Try to guess what else…

Here are the three videos. Hope you enjoy them.

You’ve taken the time, energy, and care to write a book—laboring intensively over rewrites, editing judiciously, choosing your words wisely, and polishing the final product to perfection. And now that your work is ready to share with an audience, it’s time to tackle the crucial business of bringing book and reader together. That means marketing. And not surprisingly, when it comes to marketing books, it’s all about words.

In the advertising business, they call it “the sizzle that…

Would you like to be interviewed by local and national shows & newspaper?

My turn-key Free Publicity Power System gets you written-up in newspapers and magazines, and interviewed on CBS, Oprah, GMA, Fox News and Local & National radio/TV shows without having to hire a $10,000/month PR firm.

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I highly recommend the following list of books to help promote and generate social media marketing buzz and (ultimately) revenue for your written works. After procrastinating, and working an extra [part-time] gig, I committed to purchasing at least two per month. It was a gutsy call, but the investment in ones dream is always well worth it!

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Join Charlie Barrett, national book publicist and owner of the publicity company, The Barrett

Company, as he tours the blogosphere January 3 – 25 2011 to talk about publicizing your book.

Professional national book publicist Charlie…

John Kremer’s latest post asked his subscribers to tell him why they’d like to become reality TV show stars or creators. This got me thinking about the huge publicity these reality stars receive in Australia, often for doing nothing at all.…

This blog was created to help the many writers understand that they really need to look outside the square.

Authors need good practical advice about book marketing because it is different to regular marketing and cannot be treated the same.

When authors come to me most of them are totally unaware of how the publishing industry works and how difficult it is to actually sell books. Most have never researched the facts before they begin their project. Usually, because they love…

Does your career in this publishing biz stump you sometimes? So much information and not sure what to do next? Need some help?

Suppose you could sit down with the most successful people in your field and just talk with them to learn what they…