While running my blog, I came up with an idea that I should include a section where authors could still promote their books/links regardless of whether they had videos. This would help readers find their books while they were checking out other trailers.

The section is called "List of New Books (Non-Video): http://ratemybookvideo.wordpress.com/lis...

The more exposure, the better!

:)

http://www.amazon.com/communions-christ-...

Hi Sharon,

If you wouldn't mind, please leave your link on the blog, too. It's easy: just click on the link above and post it in the comment section of "List of New Books (Non-Video)."

Thanks, Vincent. My link is http://www.goodreadmysteries.com I don't have a video but I do have a cookie recipe which goes along with the books since the protagonist is a real estate agent and we all know Realtors need to bake cookies at open houses. Check out "The Death Contingency" and "Backyard Bones," read the first chapter for free, and pick up your "Mysterious Chocolate Chip Cookies" recipe.

I'm posting a LINK to a great contest held every year called the Scarlet Boa (held by Stella Cameron, NY author)

I just posted two entries on my blog for fellow authors who submitted to the Scarlet Boa Contest. Held every year by Stella Cameron there is no charge to post an excerpt. The finalists are decided by votes. I would also like to think the entries are judged by MERIT and not popularity.

Can you please take a moment to read two short excerpt and IF (only if) you feel they deserve to be in the finals, cast your vote?

I know it's a pain to go to a web site and cast a vote, but this is a great PARANORMAL contest and the winning entry will be read by a NY publishing house.

HERE'S THE TWO ENTRIES I'D LIKE YOU TO READ:

NUMBER 90 and NUMBER 110.

IF you like them, could you cast your vote?

HERE'S THE LINK: http://www.stellacameron.com/scarletboa2...

GRACIAS, Keta Diablo

Hi everyone

Here are my links
http://mjsmithbooks.weebly.com/index.htm...
http://jmsmithromanceauthor.blogspot.com...

Updates, excerpts from my books, and more goodies.

Thanks for joining
Cheers
MJ

I just opened the October edition of The Costco Connection and OMG, I'm in it. I've been trying to get them to let me stock my books in the Santa Cruz Costco because the books are set in Santa Cruz, but they have declined saying they can't do single store listings. So not in the store, but a mention in their magazine with my website, http://www.goodreadmysteries.com as part of the article. I'm excited; we'll see if it sells books.

Nancy, How exciting is that!! Wonderful--congratulations. Maybe NOW, they'll stock your book??!

I just received a wonderful review on my book Cowgirl Dreams. Check it out (click on my photo, then on the book cover and scroll down to the end of the Review section). It's always so nice to receive positive feedback!

Heidi,
Congrats on you review, but even more importantly on your WILLA award.

The ninth eBook in my Morgaine series was released in September. It's called "Morgaine and the Necromancer" and is available at
http://shop.renebooks.com/ProductDetails...

This month (October, 2009) is the fifth anniversary of the publication of the first two books in the series, "Morgaine and Michael" and "Morgaine and Melody." For more information about this series, please visit my web site at
http://papajoesfantasticworld.com

These look great! Don't forget to post your book on the blog as well for readers to see: http://ratemybookvideo.wordpress.com/lis...

Thanks!

:)

Here is a link to my new website http://kelleyroby.webs.com/ which also contains a link to my new book trailer, hope you enjoy and if you visit please sign the guestbook

Thanks
Kelley Roby

My website is www.authorsden.com/maryanneraphael
You can see my latest books Saints of Molokai and
Dancing On Water. I have ten books at amazon.com now.
Maryanne Raphael

Here's a great list of new books by Goodreads authors:

http://ratemybookvideo.wordpress.com/lis...

Hello fellow authors. My name is Teisha Bourne. I am a debut author published by Belletristic Press. My novel's title is "Motif." My link is below.

http://teishabourne.com/

Hey, very god to see you here! How has the novel been selling thus far? What modes of promotion are you using that have worked best?
http://www.amazon.com/How-Did-I-Get-Here...

Hi Everyone

Here is the link to my new children's book.


http://whatahullabaloo.com

Be great to get some feedback about my site.
Phill

Ahmad wrote: "Hey, very god to see you here! How has the novel been selling thus far? What modes of promotion are you using that have worked best?
http://www.amazon.com/How-Did-I-Get-Here/dp/0982556403"

Not quite understanding how this reply is working but Ahmad, if your question was to me, I'm doing pretty well with my sales. I am a debut author so it is definitely harder to get your work known. I do a lot of web promotion. I've hired a publicist and I do email campaigns. I give out info on my book while I'm out and about, too.

Hi Everyone! My name is Sally Watkins and I'm new to social networking but wanted to chime in here. My website is www.sallywatkins.net and my book is Change Your Mindset Not Your Man, a self-help psychology book just published this month by Adams Media. I'm a psychotherapist with a practice in Folsom California. This is my first book and my publisher has very few resources for marketing. I have several signings and interviews scheduled. Also Turn Here is making me a FREE book trailer to market their service. I had the video shoot last Wednesday but haven't seen the 60 second video yet. I still haven't found my niche on Goodreads but am enjoying all the posts.

Phill, you have a good site, and from what I can tell, a great book, I'd love to see the pdf of it. You might need to rethink your publishing method, and marketing, but it might be worth it. I write reviews for children's books all the time, though a lot of them I simply turn down because they're not good enough to say something nice about. If you'd like a review, please send me a pdf or jpg file of the book. I'd rather have the actual book but I know that gets expensive to do.

My book Saints of Molokai has sold out twice and I have ordered more books for my next book signing. Father Damien was canonized on Sunday, Oct 11th so many peoploe want to learn about him and his work so my book came out at the perfect time. Aloha Maryanne

Thanks for telling us about the Goodreads list of new books. I just listed mine but I forgot to say it is forsale on Amazon.com along with 9 other books I wrote.

This was a great idea Now we can get an idea of all the new books we goodread writers are authoring.

Thanks, Teisha, Ahmad, Phillip, Sally, Dave, and Maranne! Don't forget to post your books on the blog as well for more exposure:

http://ratemybookvideo.wordpress.com/lis...

Vincent wrote: "Thanks, Teisha, Ahmad, Phillip, Sally, Dave, and Maranne! Don't forget to post your books on the blog as well for more exposure:

http://ratemybookvideo.wordpress.com/list-of-new-books-non-video-..."

Is the blog on this site?

Where is the blog? I would like to post my book announcements there. Maryanne

If you click on this link and scroll down to the bottom, you can leave a post about your book info in the "comment" section:

http://ratemybookvideo.wordpress.com/lis...

thanks i did it Aloha maryanne

Here's the link to my imprint http://ocotilloarts.com
I've been promoting digital versions of my books here for a number of years and had some decent traffic. Recently I've been creating printed versions of some of the books which are amenable to print, and graphic facsimiles of some others. On top of that, I should be promoting the artists book versions (in editions of two or three) to galleries, libraries, museums... I've had some trouble co-ordinating these somewhat incompatible purposes. Also, I'm told that my site lacks interactivity -- a fault. But I must be the world's worst blogger, so now what? Some comments on my site and on these issues would be welcome.
Charles

HOW I PROMOTED MOTHER TERESA, CALLED TO LOVE

When a publisher with limited funds wanted to publish Mother Teresa, Called to Love. I did a prepublication book tour. With flyers describing the book I went to churches and bookstores in Ohio , Hawaii , New York and California , places I have lived and still have many friends. I. talked about working with Mother Teresa and we sold 700 copies of the book before it was printed.
The week the book came out I went to Waverly, Ohio, the little town where I was born. I was on all the local TV stations and spoke to many church groups.
When I spoke to the Friendship Club at St. Mary’s Catholic Church every member bought a copy of the book and the club used its dues to purchase a copy for every library in town. We had a Presentation Book Party in each library with the President of the Club and me presenting the copy. The local newspaper covered the story.
Before I left town, the main local newscaster announced “Mother Teresa, Called to Love, by local author Maryanne Patterson Raphael is now the number one best selling book in Waverly Ohio” (population 5000, named for Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly Novels.)
My sister had a friend in Peru , Indiana who was opening a huge bookstore and coffee house. She invited me to speak at the Two Day opening. Peru was a town a little larger than Waverly. The editor of the only newspaper interviewed me as soon as I arrived and my photo with a large story was on the front page the day the Bookstore opened and people lined up for blocks to buy my autographed books and speak with me.
I planned book tours to the places where I had good friends. On the Big Island of Hawaii I sold books at the Catholic Churches after Mass. Two churches sold my books as a fund raiser sharing the profits with me.
Back home in California , I was invited to my friend Sandy Ceren’s book signing at Barnes & Nobles. She introduced me to the woman in charge of Customer Relations who arranged Book Signings. Sandy told her I was a good writer and my book Mother Teresa, Called to Love was popular the woman made me promise to come into the store and set up a date next week.
I was a Co-Worker of Mother Teresa and the other Co-Workers helped me publicize the event. We went from church to church with flyers, messages for the bulletin about how a local Catholic author had worked with Mother Teresa and with her permission written a book. The night of the Book Event we had one of the largest crowds they had ever had, even though they often have famous authors.
My friend Jeni Wolf arranged for me to do a book tour in her hometown New York City (where I had lived for ten years and still had wonderful friends.) She spoke with Barnes & Noble at Astor Place and with The Pauline bookstore, the largest catholic bookstore in NYC right next to St. Patrick’s. I gave Jeni my New York City telephone book and she called all my friends and made sure we had a large turnout and almost everyone of them bought more than one book. it was November and people were buying Christmas gifts.
My friends in Seattle had a wonderful idea, instead of going to Barnes & Noble or some one the small bookstores they would have some “Tupperware Book Parties. Each one of my friends had a party at her home. I met a new friend there, Lucretia who was the head of a large school for adults. When I spoke to her students I sold all the books I had with me and had to send for more.
Every time I go to Seattle she invites me to speak at her school and I always earn enough to pay the expenses of the trip.
Next door to my California home was a Tourists shop that sold artistic souvenirs and was very busy. They did not sell books but when I took mine over, they wanted to have a book signing and to keep the books there. When they had a bus load of people interested in my books, the owner would phone me and if I could I would step next door and meet the people and personalize the autographs.
Good Books a neighborhood bookstore had book signings for several of my books and when the store stopped having book signings, Boutique de Village, an artistic Clothing shop began carrying my books, the only books they sold and they had openings for every book I published after that.
My friend Patricia Walden and I had a book signing at a Senior Housing complex with 95 apartments and did very well.
When I went to a new foot doctor, his receptionist heard me talking about my book and asked if I would like to have a book signing at her daughter’s hair styling salon. We had a very successful book event and she began carrying my books.
One morning I got a phone call from the Optimist Club asking if I could replace their speaker that night. I brought my books and sold quite a few. It also gave me a chance to pass out flyers for Solano Beach Library where I was speaking with my friend Helen Kolodny on Creative Women and signing my Anaís Nin book.
When it was announced that Mother Teresa was to be canonized I went to Rome My friend Marcella Roth took copies of my book to Rome, gave one to the Holy Father and one to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who became Pope Benedict 16.
Back in California I telephoned Barnes & Nobel asking if they would like me to have another Book Event discussing Mother Teresa’s Beatification. We had another grand night and the woman in charge of Customer Relations has asked me to notify her of my future book events.
My promotion suggestion is to be flexible and take advantage of the many opportunities Life offers and Network and let your friends and acquaintances help you..



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Okay, we can all take a lesson from this. Notice the tours and such are done primarily in places that fit with the niche market she's found. Not only that, she thought out of the box by going to senior centers and the like. Kudos kiddo, great job.

I've got three books to promote,because I work with a few publishers, I write fast and I'm a glutton for punishment. There's Murderland 2:Life During WartimeMurderland II Life During Wartime, sequel to Murderland part 1:h8Murderland Part 1 h8, which came out at the end of September. This book continues my Neopulp Bizarro Murderland saga, set in a world where serial killers are the hottest celebrities and a homicidal pharmacist might be mankind's last hope. Also, there's Archelon Ranch Archelon Ranch, a metafictional Bizarro cyberpunk Cain and Abel story about man's search for paradise. And lastly, until Friday I'm selling leftover preorders for my upcoming book Jimmy Plush, Teddy Bear Detective (http;//jimmyplush.blogspot.com) a high octane Bizarro pulp adventure in which a hapless pulp writer, who is tricked into trading bodies with a much maligned teddy bear detective must clean up a city where Furry prostitutes, a warehouse sized mob boss and cannibal cops are wreaking havoc and take revenge on the bastard that's now inhabiting his body. Preorders start at 8 dollars.

too wild for my tastes, Garrett, but keep on plugging. I don't read sci-fi as a rule. I think the last thing like that was "So long and thanks for the fish" the last in the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy. I kind of liked those, but few others trip my trigger. I do like the Nora Roberts as JD Robb series that's set in the future, but that's just the setting for what's really a gritty whodunit.

My first post here. I am the author of New Path to Riches. Just published this week. http://newpathtoriches.com/ Now comes the fun part. promotion! : )

My book is POEMS FROM THE HEART by Marc Wambolt. THE ISBN# is 9781432737368. It is available at AMAZON.COM in paperback and Kindle edition. It is also on the BARNES & NOBLE website. The direct link to my publisher is http://www.outskirtspress.com/webpage.ph...

Thank you Vincent for posting this topic!!! Marc

I write 'genreclectic' fiction, check out my books here on Goodreads. I also edit the Chimeraworld anthology, published through Chimericana Books. This year's theme is NEW WORLD DISORDER.

"In the near future, the world awakens to the corporate threat of the New World Order: a leaderless resistance defeats the global elite. Stories from Alex Severin, Tina Starr, Paul Pinn, Andrew Hook, Danny O'Connor, James A. Stewart, Arley Sorg, Robert Guffey, Sheri Fresonke Harper, Justin Oldham, Thomas Henry Dylan, Mitchell Warren, C. C. Parker, Jeff Drake, Tim Lieder, Aaron Polson, Scott M. Sandridge, John Walters, Peter Diseth, Kevin James Miller, Richard Marsden, J.W. Ocker and You The People."

Chimeraworld #6

Thank you Vincent, you're awesome.
Here's the gist of my memoir:
http://amzn.com/0984259422
Musical Chairs explores one family's history of mental health diagnoses and searches to define the cusp between a '90s working-class childhood and the trouble of adapting to a comfortable life in the suburbs. In order to understand her restlessness, Jennifer reflects on years of strip-dancing, alcoholism, and estrangement. Inspired by the least likely source, the family she left behind, Jennifer struggles towards reconciliation. This story is about identity, class, family ties, and the elusive nature of mental illness.

Jen, your book sounds interesting and important.
I have a book called "Along Came A Spider, A Personal Look at Madness. Maryanne Raphael

Maryanne,
It sounds like your book is doing a lot of good. I'm buying it now. Thanks for the work you are doing, and please let me know if you might recommend any organizations that might find my work helpful.
My story is pretty raw, uncensored (though rigorously edited and revised), and I have to believe that I was compelled to write it for some reason.
Please, stay in touch.
Jen

My book is based on journals I kept when I was out of my head on three different continents, In Brazil, Morocco, New York City, Los Angeles and Hawaii.
A group that does good work is National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. They used my book as a Fund Raiser for several years. Maryanne

Jen, Let me have your feedback when you get a chance to read Along Came A Spider, A Personal Look at Madness. Maryanne

I write romantic and paranormal romantic fiction and a cookbook. I've published three books this year that are available on Amazon and at 1romanceebooks. My books can be seen at my wordpress site http://tamelaquijas.wordpress.com

Thanks

Tam

I will definitely leave feedback, Maryanne.

Hi fellow Readers!
Here's a very nice & interesting interview to read:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2236...

Hi everyone

I'm putting a section on my blog with links to my fellow author's blogs/website.

Please join my blog and leave your info in the post and I will reciprocate.
Thanks
MJ
http://jmsmithromanceauthor.blogspot.com...

My website is www.authorsden.com/maryanneraphael
would love some feedback maryanneraphael

Hi there,
I have several Christian E books at
www.higherfaithpublications.com and am excited starting to work on one of their anthologies.

Enjoyed visiting your web site There are some interesting books for sale there. Good Luck Maryanne

Now that Amazon's picked up Demo Tapes 2, here are the links:

Demo Tapes: Year 1
http://westofmars.com/west-of-mars/the-b...

Demo Tapes: Year 2
http://westofmars.com/west-of-mars/the-b...

Available in print directly through me, but also through Lulu and Amazon.

Available in electronic/digital versions through Lulu and Smashwords.

Year 1 is available on the Kindle. I need to get Year 2 there, too.

Digital copies for review are always available through me.