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John Kremer's Blog – August 2007 Archive (4)

Pitching Magazines: Research Them First

In a recent blog post, Kelly Powers of
Obie Joe Media offers some great advice on how to read a magazine to
dissect how to pitch them for maximum effectiveness.

Read about it here: http://obiejoebooks.blogspot.com/ 2007/08/dissecting-magazines-for-authors-gain.html

Added by John Kremer on August 24, 2007 at 12:18am — No Comments

Poetry Books: Best Options

Question from Poet: I'm 15 years

old and love writing. It's my true passion. I write free verses, modern

poetry. I was just looking for a good publisher. Could you please

assist me through this? I really want to bring out new poetry to the

audience, because people seem to have forgotten poetry and go for Harry

Potter or other fiction genres. I really know I can do this, and will

try my best. I'm still writing and have around 20… Continue

Added by John Kremer on August 24, 2007 at 12:00am — No Comments

Spend Less, Tell More Stories

Seth Godin always has interesting points to make. In his post today at his blog, he made the following point, one that I've been trying to get through to people for a very long time:

"The art of marketing is not finding more money to do more marketing. It's figuring out how to tell a story that spreads with the resources you've got."

So many self-publishers and new authors want to throw money at… Continue

Added by John Kremer on August 19, 2007 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Looking for Great Stories, Too!

I've been compiling a book featuring 101 great and unusual ways to market your books -- as told by various authors and publishers. I already have some great stories. So send me your stories as well. Thanks. Email: johnkremer@bookmarket.com.

Or, you can add your story here as a comment to this blog post. That way other people in the network can read the stories as well. Again, thanks.

Added by John Kremer on August 3, 2007 at 12:31am — No Comments