Hot Tips and Tools for Authors and Writers
In social media, it’s as the globe turns—what worked in social media has been turned on its head. Get ready for a fast hour as your hear about what tools are best for your genre.
Have your questions ready.
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/8739516921215234049
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
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/
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.
Details
What we’ll do in August is a great month. There’s the beauty of both the day and evening … and there is the “prep” planning that leads to the huge Fall book selling season. You will get a “what’s old and what’s new” strategy throughout the morning.
This Saturday is the perfect time to take just three hours for you to get your brainstorming and masterminding hat in the publishing ring and kick off the coming out of winter. Besides the answers to the “What I Need to Know Before I Go” that is posted on the Flip Chart, you will come away with:
* Transition from the CWO to the CMO.
* Re-launch a tired book and add sparkle to your push.
* How to use social media to master book marketing. * Learn about must-have adds for you and your book.
* Learn how to add “juice” to what you are currently doing.
* Learn new author tools to add to your success.
* Always … get any questions you have answered.
Springtime in the Rockies delivers a split weather personality–we could have a little snow; some rain; or sunshine as the day begins. Inside, there will be plenty of HOT NEW ideas that will flip what you think and turn your head and attitude about what works and doesn’t work in today’s publishing arena. All gatherings start with a flip chart and a question: what do you need? The morning is then off … who knows what paths it will take? Is there a book in the works? Are you stuck? Curious about the various publishing options? Ask your questions … AND participate.
The value of the group is to GIVE and SHARE ahas, insights, and techniques, not just TAKE. If you are a taker, Author YOU is not for you. The AuthorYOU participants are hungry for new information and delighted to share what works for them … and what doesn’t. The SALONS created will expand your projects and the breadth of your success. If you want to make your book happen … here’s the inner circle that has ideas and experience to kick start it, goose it and just get the launch started that The Book Shepherd Judith Briles leads each month. Your answers are in the room. AND … it’s MONEY FREE to attend … with two strings attached: Bring a healthy snack to share AND some new socks. Judith is a Sock Ambassador and part of a team that distributes to the Homeless and Kids in Need–, your ideas, questions, an open mind and meet other authors. No question goes unanswered! –come at 9, stay til noon– See you Saturday, August 10th. Hot Coffee and Teas are ready for you.
Warning: if you are a “no-show,” you get two passes; after two misses, future participation will be based on availability.
• What to bring Bring a snack to share and some NEW socks to give.
Register here: https://www.meetup.com/AuthorYOUSalons/events/260321129/
June opens to warming weather on the outside… and sizzling ideas on the inside. Let’s dump what isn’t working and reveal new avenues for your author success… about you; about your book… what else? It’s part of your expanding author infrastructure. See you Saturday a 9.00 a.m.
This Event is exclusively for AuthorYOU Members.
To Join AuthorYOU, visit https://authoru.org/join-author-u/why-join-author-u.html, and sign up for a VIP AuthorYOU Membership.
• AS ALWAYS, All gatherings start with a virtual flip chart and a question: what do you need? The morning is then off… who knows what paths it will take? Is there a book in the works? Are you stuck? Curious about the various publishing options? Ask your questions… AND participate.
The value of the group is to give, not just take. The Author YOU SALON participants are true masterminds. The SALONS created with expand your projects and the breadth of your success. If you want to make your book happen… here’s the inner circle that has ideas and experience to kick start it, goose it and just get the launch started. Your answers are in the room.
There is no charge for AuthorYOU Members. No question goes unanswered! –come at 9, stay till noon if need be.
Create Free Traffic To Your Books Using Pinterest
with Book Marketing Legend John Kremer
Register HERE: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6642321683200657422
Here’s the author marketing success story to kick-off a sizzling 4th of July weekend for any author who desires to be seriously successful…
- One of the main reasons Pinterest is so powerful is the fact that you can get TARGETED traffic from it.
- Marketing legend John Kremer uses Pinterest to consistently generate traffic for free.
- This means that with Pinterest YOU can attract users who are interested in a specific niche … YOURS.
- And it gets better … many Pinterest users are interested in niches AND can be absolutely obsessed with them.
- Pinterest makes it easy to get clicks from its platform to YOUR website and/ or book listings.
- Pinterest continues to be a great way to drive free traffic to any book listing or offer you have.
Summing Up … Pinterest users are precisely the kind of people you want discovering you and clicking over to your offers.
If that’s you, get registered pronto. We start LIVE on SATURDAY, July 3 at 9 AM Mountain time.
Grab your seat here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6642321683200657422
Start your author fireworks with John and I this Saturday,
P.S. John Kremer will reveal several useful tricks up his sleeve that you don’t want to miss … get yourself signed up by going here.
For AuthorYOU members only.
It’s an ONLINE Saturday AM gathering for the AuthorYOU Salon community. Grab a COOL beverage–who knows how hot it will be outside? Bring your questions … you get answers. Catch up with old and new friends. August is often a “laid back” month… get ready to rev up your marketing engines for Fall time. What are you going to position yourself for the prime selling season?
REGISTER HERE: https://www.meetup.com/AuthorU/events/rrbcjsycclbsb/
Discover the wild Wild WILD World of Twitter Spaces
Webinar Friday, July 29 from 11 am to 1pm
Get ready for the Twitter Game Changer … We have a one-hour explanation of how it works and why you want to do it webinar followed by hands-on training. If you are using Twitter now, or going to, get registered.
Discover the new wild Wild WILD World of Twitter Spaces
Join the new frontier on Twitter on the ground floor of its social audio.
This two-hour event is split into two parts, a lecture and then a field trip.
Authors will hear about the fundamentals of adding a Twitter Space to their author platform. A case study with growth analytics will show movement with Twitter Spaces. We will discuss the global aspects of connection and collaboration derived from Twitter Spaces. I will highlight the elements of how to run a space.
And with that information, it’s part two. Get ready to take a field trip into a live Twitter Space and play. Dr. J. and friends will facilitate the event and be your guides in experiential learning.
Authors will learn how to:
- Identify the components of what Twitter Spaces can do for an author platform.
- Create a space structure to meet specific author goals.
- List how Twitter Spaces will grow your reach.
- Name the ways a space works.
Materials Needed:
- Cell phone—fully charged.
- A Twitter Profile already set up.
- Follow @DoctorJAuthor on Twitter before the webinar begins.
Handouts will be sent on Thursday, July 28th to all Registered
Register Here: https://bit.ly/TwitterSpacesAY
On Tuesday, September 20th (3 PT, 4 MT,6 CT, 6 ET) … 30 Hot Publishing Ahas and Tips from seven amazing publishing pros: Judith Briles, Derek Doepker, Mara Purl, Rebecca Finkel, Ashlee Bratton, Kelly Johnson, and Bobby Crew. Plus, we have a sizzling #31-35 that you won’t want to miss!
What author and writer doesn’t want savvy insider tips and ahas on publishing, publicity, book marketing, making money on your book, and the latest awesome gizmos and gadgets authors can use?
Don’t bother to pop the popcorn—you won’t have time to eat it—you will be taking notes like crazy!
Get it on your calendar:
TUESDAY, September 20 (3 PT, 4 MT,6 CT, 6 ET)
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Register now! https://bit.ly/30SizzlingTips
Discover How to Dominate Your Genre and Industry with Smarter Content
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM MDT
ChatGPT is a powerful artificial intelligence platform that is quickly becoming popular among developers. Is it a friend … or a foe to Human Intelligence writers and authors? Or can it be used to enhance and expand what H.I. delivers? It’s time to talk built-in biases and limitations of ChatGPT.
REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/AIRevolutionWebinar
What’s the difference between OpenAI playground and Chat GPT and other resources?
For nonfiction authors … how about fast-forwarding your research needs to get instant answers? Or build an outline and mini descriptions for chapters? Hmmm.
REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/AIRevolutionWebinar
See you Saturday …
Have your hot coffee and tea ready when we start … maybe a few nibbles … and definitely do a health break. When Dr. Judith Briles and her merry tribe of experts start the 90 Minute Round Clock, you won’t want to leave the room … or for remote participants, your computer.
You authors and authors-to-be out there … suggest you be present … get registered.
DATE and TIME: Saturday, March 2, 2024 Online. 8:30 A.M to 10:00 A.M. MDT
COST: FREE
LOG ON a few minutes before we start:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/99093026425?pwd=clQwRVBoM21GZFd1czJiTVJucGhPQT09
Passcode: JB
