Category Archives: Book Promotion

A book promotion specialist’s tools

Like all professionals, a book promotion specialist has her tools of the trade. One of the most important is the relationship she builds with each and every one of her media contacts. The identity of those TV and radio producers, … Continue reading

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Is 50 Years Too Late for Book Promotion?

Is 50 years too long to wait after an event to publish your story and hope to get some book promotion? Well, not if you’ve waited 50 years to talk about the affair you had with President John F. Kennedy while you were a White House intern, apparently. Continue reading

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Book Promotion Perspectives

A Houston Chronicle article talks about book promotion from the different perspectives of several successful authors including Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and others. Continue reading

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Book Lust Rediscoveries Kindles Book Promotion Potential

Nearly every author who works with this book publicist has a dream: “Get me on NPR!” Any author whose book is featured on “Morning Edition” or any other National Public Radio show will be in literary and book publicity heaven. … Continue reading

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Here’s How to Garner Instant Book Promotion

Here’s how to garner an instant book promotion opportunity. Sell your book to a producer who creates a successful film best upon your book, and then have that film be nominated for an Oscar. There you have it: a chance to create buzz about your book. Continue reading

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Book Promotion and Book Marketing Perspective

Shaun Rein, author of the upcoming book, The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends That Will Disrupt the World, shares his perspective on book promotion and book marketing in a Forbes article, Three Tips on Making Your Book a Bestseller. Continue reading

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How to blow a book promotion opportunity.

How can you blow a book promotion opportunity? Let’s look to Christine O’Donnell for inspiration. O’Donnell, who is promoting her book, Troublemaker, walked off the set of “Piers Morgan Tonight” during a live interview. Continue reading

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Let the News Work for Your Book Promotion Campaign

If you’re waiting for a slow news day to pitch your story ideas to the media, you’ll probably have a long wait. In fact, you might never succeed in shouting down the major events of the day, and you might find yourself waiting forever to find a lull in the news so that you can launch the book promotion campaign you’ve envisioned. Continue reading

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Why Authors Hate Social Networking and How to Promote Books Online, Anyway

Publishers, faced with shrinking book promotion budgets, are more excited than ever about telling authors to promote their own books online. By online book promotion, publishers often mean social networking. They use the phrases interchangeably. The reason publishers are particularly excited about online book promotion is that, in their opinion, they don’t have to get involved in it. They can simply suggest that authors engage in online book promotion, and then step back and wait to see the results. It’s good for the publisher’s budget and easy on their resources, and it keeps authors busy. Continue reading

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Better book promotion, money can’t buy.

From a book promotion standpoint, I’d say that Jane Fonda walked away a winner here. Continue reading

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