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A Year of Book Marketing

I'm excited to announce that I'm launching a new book tomorrow - and a blog series! "A Year of Book Marketing" is a challenge to authors to spend 365 days marketing their books. Those who want to start the journey with me tomorrow (January 1st) are more than welcome to join me here on my blog as I'll blog my way through the challenge for all of 2013. If you'd rather start later, or want to have a copy of the challenge on hand, part 1 will be available on both Kindle and Smashwords....

Save BIG on Books During This Christmas Book Sale

Are you looking for books about writing or marketing?

Maybe you would just like to load up on some novels?

Perhaps, you are more into self-help books - well, no matter what your into, the Christmas Book Sale going on now has something for you. 

With over 60 books to choose from racking up $200 in savings, you won't want to miss this sale. 

Now through the 15th, authors from all different walks and genres have pooled together to offer readers free and reduced price books.

My boo...

Writing Real Good - Guest Post by Deborah Heal

Writing Real Goodby Deborah Heal
Christian fiction writers sometimes think their stories are less important than the sermons, essays, and treatises of the "serious" non-fiction writer. But imaginative writing has tremendous power to teach deep truths. For example, many, many people have come to know God through C. S. Lewis' Narnia stories.
Storytelling is even an effective tool for fund raising. One Christmas, when it was time to send out the monthly newsletter for our...

21 Ways to Market Your Book

I'm working on a new project for next year, and in the process I needed to brainstorm the different ways to market a book. Here are 21 of the things I came up with:

BloggingWriting Articles/Guest Posts Paid or Free AdvertisingNetworkingOptimizing/Updating Website/SalespageSpeaking Engagements/TeleseminarsAuthor InterviewsPodcastingPress ReleasesSetting Up/Maintaining a Mailing ListWriting, Formatting, Editing, and Publishing a BookQuote PhotosHold a Giveaway or ContestCreate/Handout Bookm...

Capture the Memories - Guest Post by Mary Anne Bendetto

Capture the Memoriesby Mary Anne Benedetto~~~~~It seems as though we were just in the midst of the heat of summer with its tornado and hurricane warnings, floods, and humidity so thick it sometimes felt like you could chop it with a machete. Now here we are rapidly approaching the holiday season!
Whether you are celebrating by devouring luscious Thanksgiving turkey, accompanied by all of the requisite trimmings, or perhaps seated around a Christmas ham and trying to keep the little ones quiet...

What are you seeking?

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I was reading in the book of Matthew today. I started this Bible reading plan with a friend back in September and we were planning on reading through the entire New Testament before Christmas... Obviously since I’m still in Matthew it’s not going so hot. This is a busy time of year around here. It always is, but even more so this year as we are moving next week so I’ve been working on that as well. I've made excuses, putting off my time with God trying to make sure that...

Marketing and Free Stuff

I have been taking part in a huge promotion of Christian books. I joined with several other best selling authors to give away our newest devotional book for free for three days only. If you haven't already checked out this sale, I highly recommend doing so at: http://www.bodyandsoulpublishing.com/100-percent-off-christian-books/ But besides that, I also registered with dozens of other sites that share about free and/or new books, such as: http://www.fkbooksandtips.com/2012/10/1...

100% Off Christian Book Sale: 3 Days Only

For three days only, several best-selling Christian authors have joined together to offer their books for free to avid readers. October 17th through the 19th 2012, readers can download 20 Christian books worth over $60 for free and enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card to get even more free books
This sale is just one of many hosted by Body and Soul Publishing, who also posts free Christian books and giveaways on their blog daily. Here’s what one reader had to say: "I’m very grateful for t...

Book Marketing Prompts

I've been working on brainstorming book marketing prompts - both for my new releases as well as to share with our newly launched book marketing community, "Book Marketing Success" And I wanted to share a few of them here on my blog. So here are some thoughts for the next few months:


October:
Do you write fiction? Why not dress up as a character from your book and go to a harvest party, etc.? It would be a great conversation starter! (Maybe even take a long some bookmarks to leave with people) Do...

Networking the Net

Social media is one of those things that most people have a love/hate relationship with.

We love it... so much that it eats our time and then we end up hating it.

As author's it eat's up our time.

We need it for marketing, research and, well, human interaction, but we don't need it to rule our days.

The other day I had an epiphany:

What if we actually used social media socially?

Stay with me now.

What if instead of spending hours repining pins, reading blogs, and skimming status updates, we responde...