Monthly Archives: March 2013

6 Pillars to Build Your Author and Book Business Online Video

6 Pillars to Build Your Author and Book Business Online Video

 
Last year, Author U created it’s radio show, Your Guide to Book Publishing, that is available for downloads with the last five available for instant download on the Home page of www.AuthorU.org.  

This year, Author U is kicking it up. We will be videoing many of our workshops and presentations … and the Extravaganza. Those videos will be available for purchase to start your own Video Library. The first available comes from the rock star event …

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Becoming Part of the Author U Community with Your Know How!

Becoming Part of the Author U Community with Your Know How!

 Author U continues to grow and grow. We have just received notification that we are the proud owner of an official registered trademark! The Extravaganza has only 30 seats left and six weeks to fill them! The odds are high—we will be sold out this year. All Exhibitor spots are already taken. The Author Shark Tank already has one member ready to take a swim. The Extravaganza is going to show every participant how to …

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Calling All Authors! The Author YOU Cha-Cha-Cha Sweepstakes is open!

Calling All Authors! The Author YOU Cha-Cha-Cha Sweepstakes is open!

 
One lucky author or author-to-be will walk away with over $6,000 in prizes this month.
 

Enter now for the opportunity to win 10 amazing prizes … all to ONE person: http://ow.ly/iMzSz

Silver Success eBook Promotion from Penny Sansevieri, VALUE: $499
Reduce the Cost of Your Next Print Run from Color House Graphics, VALUE: $1,000
Book Covers Say a Thousand Things—You Get One that Does from Nick Zelinger, VALUE: $750
Author U Extravaganza May 2-4, 2013 in Denver, CO …

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Authors: Are You Emotionally Driven or Intentionally Driven?

Authors: Are You Emotionally Driven or Intentionally Driven?

Emotions and Intentions. They affect us all when it comes to the book.

Sharing with a publishing colleague that I’m always amazed that authors wait until the last minute to sign up for things. “Pay more later for the same thing that I could have gotten for less sooner,” is their operating model. Or, “I just can’t make up my mind what I want to do, to be.” Or, “I don’t like to, don’t want, to …

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Author Smarts: Twitter Top Ten Tweets for March 7, 2013

Author Smarts: Twitter Top Ten Tweets for March 7, 2013

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. – Robert Benchley
 
      Today, Your Guide to Book Publishing with Judith Briles and Nicholas Taylor where the focus was on online marketing for books, especially fiction.  You can go to the Home page of http://www.AuthorU.org, scroll down and click on any of the past five show—just click and you are …

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Take a short media-training course at the Author U Extravaganza

Take a short media-training course at the Author U Extravaganza

Have you wondered why celebrities being interviewed on television can look so calm when millions of people are watching them?  And have you ever wondered if you could do that?
At the Extravaganza you will learn how to perform on national television and radio while appearing calm and collected.

The key to any good performance is preparation. Just as actors do, media guests need to know what they are going to say during all their performances …

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