Are you ready to promote your new book?
Perhaps you don’t know what questions to ask or what promotional options are available to you. Author U and expert Literary Publicist Stephanie Barko have answers for you.
Brunch and Learn Registration
Cost: $35 for members, $55 for nonmembers
Signups after Thursday, September, 19th will add $10 at the door.
Date: Saturday, September 21st
Time: 10 am to 1:45 pm
Location: Doubletree SE, Aurora
Bonus Session – Author U members only- 3 SPOTS left
Cost: $30
Bonus Mastermind Session from 2 – 4
Location: Doubletree SE, Aurora
NO refunds 30 days prior to event.
 Brunch and Learn $35 for members |
Brunch and Learn $55 for nonmembers |
Brunch and Learn + Bonus session $65 for members |
Bonus Session $30 members only |
When it comes to promotion and publicity for authors and books, it’s easy to get lost and confused. Three questions usually pop up with authors around promotion and publicity.
- What works and what doesn’t work for today’s author?
- What works best for you and your book?
- What will it cost?
This workshop surveys book promotion from the 50 foot level, exposing the author to a wide panorama of promotional elements.
You will learn the how and why of these elements in book promotion.
- Blogging
- Social Networking
- Media Kits
- Interviews
- Trailers
- Press Releases
- Features
- Live Events
- Virtual Tours
- Timelines
Writers will get a feel for what they might want to do themselves and what might best be delegated by listening to examples from real campaigns and comparing cost to benefit.
Participants will walk away with a general understanding of modern book promotion and a broad sense of direction for their specific project.
BONUS Session
Stephanie is flying in from Austin, TX to present this amazing workshop, and will facilitate a deep-dive MasterMind for a limited number of attendees after brunch. Think of it as personalized laser coaching. Limited to 20.
Stephanie Barko, Literary Publicist was voted Preditors & Editors Best Book Promotion Service in 2011. Her award-winning clients include traditional publishers and their authors, small presses, and independently published writers.
Visit with Stephanie at www.StephanieBarko.com
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?
Wow! Wouldn’t you love to grab the top spot on Amazon’s bestseller list and learn how to keep the momentum going? Not just for an hour … for days and weeks?
-How would you like instant credibility and expert status?
-How would you like to be able to create a strategy to get buyers names and emails and grow your list in the process?
-How would you like to have a system you can use over and over again that works every time?
If you’re thinking, “Yes, I would,” you’re serious … and you want to learn Ellen Violette’s secrets in our all-new Webinar slated for Thursday, January 18th,
Our Expert to show you the way: Ellen Violette is an award-winning self-publishing and business coach, 8-time #1 bestselling author, and soon-to-be podcaster at Books Business and Abundance. She’s also a Grammy-nominated songwriter.
Register for Thursday, Jan 18 at 4 PT: http://bit.ly/Ebook2018tips
