It’s All About the “Book” … the Questions is Which Type of Book!
Get ready to explore which the latest if book styles, the how-tos and which is right for your book, your reader and you, the author.
Is it Door #1, Door #2 or Door #3? Find out on Saturday, the 14th with AuthorU excellent publishing service associates Nick Zelinger, Rebecca Finkel, Richard Rieman and Nick Taylor walk you through the latest and greatest in print, “e” and audio.
Door #1 Audio
Richard Rieman is a 25-time audiobook narrator on Audible, Amazon, iTunes and YouTube. He also produces audiobooks for authors doing their own narration, including Charles Clark’s The Bootlegger ’40 Ford, Steve Snyder’s Shot Down! And Judith Briles‘ The Crowdfunding Guide for Authors &Writers.
- Why you should produce an audiobook.
- Best-selling genres for audiobooks.
- Why you should and why you should NOT narrate your own book.
- How to get a professional narrator with no up-front costs.
- The most common and not-so common mistakes, how to avoid them and what to do to get out of them.
- Audiobook tricks of the trade.
Richard is the author of the upcoming The Author’s Guide to Audiobook Creation: Giving Your Book a Voice available this fall.
Door #2 Print
Nick Zelinger wears both author and book designer hats. He’s the author of Another Gig in Nightmare Hell and a multi-award winning designer of hundreds of books. Rebecca Finkel has also designed hundreds of books and covers working with traditional and independent publishers including international bestselling photographer and author John Fiedler.
- Why you should produce a print book.
- Best-selling genres for print books.
- Why you should and why you should NOT design your own book.
- How to kick your costs down and negotiate the best deal for your book.
- The latest trends in interior designs and book covers.
- The most common and not-so common mistakes, how to avoid them and what to do to get out of them.
- Print tricks of the trade.
Door #3 eBook
Nick Taylor wears three hats—eBook designer, audio voice and author of five books including the Legon Awakening
- Why you should produce an eBook.
- Best-selling genres for eBooks.
- Why you should and why you should NOT create an eBook.
- How to position yourself on Amazon and generate sales.
- What costs to expect.
- The most common and not-so common mistakes, how to avoid them and what to do to get out of them.
- eBook tricks of the trade
When: Saturday, November 14
Time: 8 a.m. registration, Intros and Member Showcase/Reviews 8:30; Program at 9.
Where: Garcias, 5050 S. Syracuse, Denver
Cost: $32 Members and $45 Non-members.
MEMBERS – $32: 
NON-MEMBERS – $45:
Mistakes that Authors Should Always Avoid
Oh my … don’t let the Turkeys get you down … we all make mistakes. You are going to get the common ones to always avoid PLUS plenty that you may not know about but will most likely run into during your authoring career. Why not have pre-knowledge so you can avoid a disaster—whether big or small—ahead of time?
Cost: FREE to all AuthorU members
Time: 7 pm Eastern to 8 pm
Register: On AuthorU website under Events or go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8734249161006608641
… You asked for it … AuthorU will deliver a GamePlan for Launching Your Book … whether it’s new or old, what you will get it bold ideas; strategies on how to implement them; what social media works and what doesn’t … and January’s program is just that. Whether you book is just birthing or it’s gone into remission… get ready for an array of ideas and how-tos to kick start the big day/week/month … or get it restarted after being exhausted. The way to start off the year.
- Create the ideal Book Launch for your book.
- Generate strategies to rebirth a book once it’s out.
- Identify which of the social media platforms will work (and won’t).
- Tips and Tricks for bestseller status on Amazon’s Print and eBook positions.
- How to deal with AFS … Author Fatigue Syndrome.
- Onsite, you will create social media blasts to support your campaign—whether it’s next week or several months from now.
- And so much more.
Create a Book Launch that will Skyrocket 
your Book’s Debut (or Redo)!
When: Saturday, January 9
Time: 8 a.m. for Networking and Breakfast … over at Noon
Where: Colorado Automotive Association, 290 E Speer Blvd, Denver CO 80203
Cost: $22 for Gold and Best Seller Members; $35 for Basic and Non-Members. Increases $10 on January 3rd.
Gold MEMBERS – $32:
Best Seller MEMBERS – $0:
Basic – MEMBERS – $45:
OTHERS – $45:
Tuesday, January 19th (4 PT, 5 MT, 6 CT, & 7 ET)
Realize Your Big Screen Dream
What Authors Need to Know About Bringing Books to Film and Television
What does Hollywood want? More importantly, what do you have that Hollywood might want to make into a film, television movie or TV series. The truth about Hollywood is that it leaves no stone unturned when it comes to looking for content – but, it holds a high standard to what it wants and why, when and from whom. We’ll look at trends, genres, budgets, film and television buyers, representation and the many avenues you can explore to lead you to realizing your big screen dream.
Attempting to navigate Hollywood without a guide can be overwhelming and confusing – and leave your utterly lost and even downtrodden. But when you have a path and a plan and know the mostly unwritten and unspoken rules of the game – you are setting yourself up to win, and in some cases that can be an extremely big win. We’ll look at the books you have and the ones you haven’t written yet that will be the best fit for studios and networks. Plus what gets them excited to want to turn your book into a movie or television show.
Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/887872503672904193
Date: January 19, (4 PT, 5 MT, 6 CT, & 7 ET)
Get your books and eBooks into libraries that Daniel Hall and Amy Collins have created and customized for AuthorU members on February 24th. Get registered pronto:
Calling ALL authors …
If you have ANY desire to get your book into a library, a library system, and tips on creating a library buzz … you can’t afford to miss this special webinar on Wednesday, February 24th.
Grab your seat – https://realfast.clickfunnels.com/webinar-registration8406195
This is HOT and practically no one in the author/ indie publisher community has any clue about this. If you’re reading this email right now you’re one of the very first to even know that this opportunity exists. And Holy-Moly when you attend the training you will know how to take advantage of the library opportunity…
For example, you’ll come away with:
- Huge eBook licensing opportunity that can spin off recurring revenue.
- Selling your POD books to libraries and why it is an excellent way to increase sales of your book on Amazon!
- How to make your book super easy for libraries to buy.
- The step-by-step process of how libraries buy POD books and license eBooks from independent author and publishers like you.
- How the sale of your book to one library can result in viral sales to many other libraries.
If you’re an author, Kindle or POD publisher you’ll definitely want in on this cutting-edge profit training.
We start at 7pm ET/ 4pm PT. We expect this Webinar to be SOLD OUT.
And we WILL have a full house… will you be there?
YES! Get Your Books into Libraries – Details will be announced this week via the website … You don’t want to miss it—this webinar will include a special package for all participants.
HOT new webinar on Wednesday, March 9 ( 6 ET, 5CT, 4MT, 3PT).If you want to sell thousands of books on Amazon, there are a few things you need to do to make it happen. One of those is to get BOOK REVIEWS.
Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5310974687142252546
You need far more than a handful of them.
Book distributor and AuthorU Board member Amy Collins recommends 25 REVIEWS within one week of your launch date. Gulp … do you have at least 25 on your Amazon book page right now?
How would you like to find the most powerful influencers on Amazon to goose your book sales … and do it for free?
If you can eventually amass more than 100 legitimate reviews, Amazon becomes your cheerleader. It will consider paying for Google pay-per-click ads, and ads on Facebook and other sites, to pull people onto your Amazon sales pages. AuthorU member Steve Snyder (Shot Down!) garnered three special email blasts from Amazon recommending his book (that would have cost him thousands of advertising dollars … he got them for free. How? He had a 747 plane load of BOOK REVIEWS posted on his book page from happy Amazon buyers. Amazon’s mighty robots knew it had a winner in play.
What this means is that you should be contacting as many Amazon reviewers as possible–and not just the top 100 or even the top 1,000.
In other words, more social proof = more books sold. Simple, yes?
Here’s the problem: Sifting through all those reviewer profiles to find the ones that would be interested in your book can take days—weeks even.
There’s a much easier way.
I’m hosting a free webinar with online marketing expert Debbie Drum. She has published more than 50 books under various pen names, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, March 9th, on “How To Find Powerful Influencers on Amazon to Review Your Books and Help You with Your Marketing–for Free.”
Debbie will explain how to find reviewers quickly, pitch them correctly, and avoid many of the landmines, like review swapping, that can cause major trouble for you and force Amazon to close your account. She’ll also introduce you to a powerful tool that’s helping authors crush it by collecting dozens of Amazon reviews super-fast.
Register for the free training here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5310974687142252546
P. S. Think about how many times you read reviews before you buy anything online, visit a restaurant, or see a movie. Book buyers LOVE BOOK REVIEWS …
I’ll be there … will you?
Get ready to receive the Perfect Gift for yourself; your book, your authoring success all week!
This week, and this week only, the AuthorU Elves have picked the best of the best … an exclusive one time only Re-run of our top Webinars with their discounted offerings on ‘live’ through New Year’s Day. It’s an Author Marathon Webinar Derby!
From now until midnight on January 1, you have the opportunity to listen and view each any time, any day, a total of 7 excellent information packed webinars.
Join Judith Briles as she hosts Joan Stewart for Soaring with a Hot Media Kits and Creating Press Kits that Hook the Media’s Eye; Amy Collins for Getting Your Book into Libraries and Selling to Independent Book Stores; Daniel Hall with the How-tos of Creating High Profit Info Products and Morphing Your Book to Say Hello Hollywood; and Kathy Meis’ Bublish Delight.
Below is the link to each Webinar Replay. Remember: all are available from now through midnight January 1 … then they go away.
From Joan Stewart,
Creating Press Kits that Hook the Media’s Eye July 20 Replay page: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/9065635374375223298
Soaring with a Hot Media Kits June 8 Replay page: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/7951153896718334722
From Kathy Meis,
Bublish Delight https://youtu.be/2W2OYo3Wjk4
Note to all: The code date at the end of the webinar on the slides has been reactivated and will carry the January 1 deadline.
From Amy Collins,
Getting Your Book into Libraries
http://realfastlibrarymarketing.com/briles/
Selling to Independent Book Stores
http://realfastindiebookmarketing.com/briles/
From Daniel Hall
How-tos of Creating High Profit Info Products
http://RealFastInfoProduct.com/briles
Morphing Your Book to Say Hello Hollywood
http://realfasthollywooddeal.com/judith/ or
http://realfasthollywooddeal.com/briles/
Get ready to get the “insider’s skinny” on the hottest tool in the Amazon Marketing Services offerings. We are going to DEEP DEEP Dive into the new advertising that you can do on Amazon for pennies … don’t miss this session–it will not be taped … meaning you need to be at the meeting.
Meet with R
ichard Rieman at the studios of Post Modern Company Studios in downtown Denver to learn The Secrets of Audiobooks and How to Use them to Showcase Your Book. In addition, Kathy Meis, founder of Bublish, takes you step-by-step through the process of conducting your own Book Positioning Study and implementing Bublish to your marketing strategy.
Get ready to create a 3-minute AUDIO onsite for the first 20 people who register. 
We have two studios that will allocate a total of 15 minutes for each of the lucky 20–this allows to retakes and editing. For those who will be in front of the mic, you will get instructions on how to script yourself so you maximize your efforts and minimize your time.
Note: this is a large studio in a commercial building with concrete floors–bring a sweater–it can be chilly.
Count me in … I need to get on the audiobook trail pronto!
Richard Rieman is a multi-award winning author of The Author’s Guide to AudioBook Creation, a narrator and audiobook consultant.
BONUS AM SESSION
What, Whys and How-tos in Using Bublish
Meet Bublish … the world’s first complete publishing system with integrated branding, book and author marketing and discoverability features. It has award-winning tools to help authors write, publish, promote, sell and track their work — all from a single dashboard.
Bublish’s mission is to empower author-entprepreneurs, or as the team calls them, “authorpreneurs.” The “authorpreneur” title captures the essence of what it means to be a successful author in today’s competitive book marketplace. Authors must be both creative and business minded. With this in mind, the Bublish teams has created a suite of empowering tools. Here’s a sampling of how Bublish can help …
- Grow your audience. Bublish helps you share enriched, author-branded Book Bubbles that are easy to create, put thousands of eyes on you and your book(s), and connect the dots for your target audience. The team typically tracks about 50,000 book bubble engagements each week.
- Build your author brand. Bublish also gives you a LinkedIn-style Author Profile to help you start building your author brand. Here readers can see all your books and Bubbles in one place. Like Book Bubbles, your Author Profile can be shared socially with one click. Did you know readers are 15 times more likely to buy a book from an author with a name they recognize?
- Increase discoverability by search engines like Google. Every time you socially share a Book Bubble or your Bublish Author Profile, you make your author brand and books more discoverable by search engines like Google. This is another important feature we’ve automated for you. When you upload or create a book on Bublish, the keywords and metadata (title, your name, book cover image, keywords, etc.) are optimized for discoverability by search engines. All you have to do is create and share Book Bubbles regularly. Bublish technology handles the rest.
- Track your progress. At the top of your Bublish dashboard, you’ll find real-time metrics showing you when and where readers are engaging with your Book Bubbles and Author Profile. You’ll also see when and where they convert to visit your book’s product page at the major online book retailers.
- Generate beautiful ePub files with one click. Our Cloud-based writing tool lets you input content chapter by chapter on the left-hand side of the screen and select a layout on the right-hand side. With one click, you can change the entire layout of your book. You can export your manuscript anytime either as a Word document for editing OR as an ePub file ready to share with reviewers.
- Engage readers WHILE you’re writing. Share excerpts and insights right from your manuscript with Bublish’s “rough cut” book bubbles. They take only moments to create, so they won’t distract you from writing. They will, however, help you engage readers, get valuable feedback on your manuscript and share your creative journey with potential readers. When you’re ready, you can even add a “pre-order” button to your rough-cut bubbles to start selling your book at all the major online book retailers.
Bublish Founder, Kathy Meis will be here to deliver a “hands-on” demo of the What, Whys and How-tos in Using Bublish the second half of the morning.
Get ready to “bubble” up your Book Fans!
BE PREPARED!To those signing up…“Please prepare a book excerpt or promotion for the audio-only recording in the Postmodern studio. It has to be very short, 2-3 minutes maximum, to allow everyone a chance to record in the time allotted.”
Location: Postmodern Company; 2734 Walnut Street Denver, Colorado 80205 (303) 539-7001
In the Rhino District just east of Downtown Denver. (Directions to be posted soon)
In the RiNO District, just east of downtown Denver (the building has a large eye on it and is painted green) – directions will be posted. 
Parking is available for attendees between the two buildings with green outer walls. Parking is often a challenge–even though we have “space” for many, we would suggest that this would be a good time to carpool with a friend.
Time: 8.15 AM until Noon.
Cost: Early Bird until March 26 is $30 for Gold members, all others $40. An additional $10 after the 26th
Gold members need to login to Member site to register.
The Top 10 Keys to Audiobook Success Webinar
August 17 4 PT, 5 MT, 6 CT, 7 ET
Do you have an audiobook for your book? Have you thought about creating one? Do you know that audiobooks are the fastest growing segment in publishing today?
It’s Audiobook Revolution time!
Learn why you should create one and the top 10 ways to soar your success. Our August webinar is any eye and ear-opener!
Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3148302396777262083
The Top 10 Keys to Audiobook Success
Once you have created the audiobook version of your book, narrator and audiobook expert Mara Purl will share specific strategies for audiobook success, including:
1. Key reasons to go exclusively with Amazon’s ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange) or to go non-exclusive
2. Top ACX Alternatives
3. Best options for getting your audiobook into libraries or on CD
4. How to give away your audiobook and get paid for it
5. How to place your audiobook in the 3 best Audible categories
6. Key options for audiobook reviews
7. Building your genre fan base
8. Why you can make more money with your audiobook than your eBook
9. How to use your audio files in your promotions
10. Best Audiobook award competitions
Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3148302396777262083
Meet Your Presenter … You know MARA PURL as the best-selling, multiple-award-winning author of the Milford-Haven Novels, known as the “Heart Books.” But behind the scenes, Mara has been a top professional audio producer for two decades. Her ground-breaking original radio drama “Milford-Haven USA” was the first American radio serial ever broadcast on the BBC, where her 100 episodes with an all-star cast found an audience of 4.5 million throughout the U.K. Next she created 75 radio drama trilogies with students she worked with in Alaska, Colorado, California, and Tokyo, Japan. Next she launched Haven Books Audio, where her audio books have won the USA Book News, Hollywood Book Festival, and EVVY Audio Book Awards. In addition, Mara is a sought-after Audible narrator who performs multiple character voices and who enjoys becoming unrecognizable when she performs American-Southern, as well as French, German, British, Australian, and Japanese foreign accents. Find out more about some of Mara’s audios at http://havenbooks.net/audio.
August’s webinar is all about solving common problems that authors face when publishing and selling books. It’s about getting MORE people to buy your book.
One of the problems that authors face is lack of sales.
That’s a big one, right? Get ready to receive more sales and easy ways and systems to do that. Yes, you do need REVIEWS –and that will be covered … but there is so much more …
The big 7 common problems are identified and of course, sharing a solution for you right in the training.
Common Problems for lack of sales include:
- Not having an audience
- Not having an automated system to work for you to get reviews and fans
- Not having a way to effectively communicate with your fans
- Easily connecting with POTENTIAL followers…
- and a whole lot more
Yikes, the sad part is that you can have everything RIGHT like:
- The perfect title
- The perfect cover
- The perfect editing
- Even the perfect ending …
But if you lack certain components in your book listing, you could have worked your butt off for nothing. Oh ugh …
Let’s remove that “ugh” feeling … get registered NOW: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5900115043128830477
Date: Tuesday, August 25 at 3 pm Mountain
Firehose Saturday Morning Book Marketing at AuthorYou with Dr. Judith Briles
ONLINE Saturday, June 4th, 2022
8:30 am MT, 10:30 ET
When it comes to authors and book marketing, it may be an Apple Pie and Ice Cream experience … or Crème Brulé with a Dill Pickle Topping. Kinda ugh. Whether marketing is fun or an overwhelming tsunami, there are tips, tricks, and tools that can calm your author resistance and get things moving once again.
- How effective is yours?
- What’s working?
- What hasn’t?
- What portals, software, tools are you currently using?
- How often do you shout out you and your book?
- Is your marketing all DIY or do you get help?
- Are you open to new strategies and tips?
The #1 thing for authors to do is market their books. Let’s do it with some fun; some flair, and get results. If that sounds like something you would like to experience, get registered for the final First Saturday program before summertime hits. The next one will be in September.
Your Presenter is Judith Briles, author of 42 books, with over ONE MILLION sold since she published her first book in June of 1981 under the wings of a New York publisher. In 2000, she crossed over to Indie Publishing, creating her own press and taking on all publishing and marketing aspects of a book … and that’s when sales soared.
Register NOW … last day for early bird discount is Monday, May 30th -registration increases $10
AuthorYOU Members: $30
NonMembers: $50
You will be sent the Zoom link plus handouts on Friday afternoon. Print them. Each registrant will get the recording of the presentation.
