Patrick Jones's Blog, page 63
January 7, 2013
What's Wrong With Marketing Your Book?
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Are you aware, how expensive advertisements are, even if they are online?
And that these ads are only visible for the time you ordered & paid them?
If you would have the possibility to advertise many months or even years for free, presenting your book to ten-thousands or even hundred thousand of readers and often at the same time even improve your Search Engine ranking through back links – would you take on this offer?
Good information here for marketing strategies for book sales.
5 Top New Years Resolutions for Authors
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With 2013 just around the corner, are you thinking of the changes you would like to make in your (writers) live? What are your goals for 2013, besides writing your next book? Where do you want to be in twelve months?
If one of your goals is to have a platform as a writer and successfully market your book(s) then have a look at my suggestions to built a foundation and boost your and your books success.
The Wolf’s Moon BEST THRILLER NOVEL by Patrick Jones
An animated book trailer promo
Soon, “The Wolf’s Moon” will be a year old. Our first book signing (for some reason I don’t care for the term…”book launch”) was in February. It was an overwhelming success; I almost ran out of books! Most of the town of Bourbon, MO turned out. My wife and I were to be there at Blazers Pub and Grill for two, two hour sessions. We ended up being there from 11 am until 8 pm.
My wife, before the signing, started a webpage for the book.
The Sunday after, she certainly had enough to put on it…and then some.
I am a huge football fan and that Sunday was Super Bowl Sunday. For me, it’s a day of watching pregame hype, snacks, drinks, more snacks, drinks and finally, the game.
My wife, on the other hand, sat in front of the computer doing something and laughing every couple of minutes.
Just after the coin toss, she shoved her laptop in front of me to watch the video that she worked on all afternoon.
It was cute and I said so. Sandy did not, after watching it over and over with the volume up as high as it could go, think it was as good as she could do.
She went back to work.
At that moment, I knew truly in my heart that God was male in gender and he too loved football as much as I do.
Other than for some giggling she was quiet until the first half was over.
Then, she shoved the laptop back in front of me asking me to watch it again.
I did, and the changes made it better. She still wasn’t happy with it, luckily half-time was over and the game was back on TV.
I learned a long time ago than one can watch a football game without sound, but on Super Bowl Sunday you not only get the game but the commercials as well. Most are amusing, some down right funny and others, well…
That Sunday, I couldn’t say which were which. My wife was so excited by what she was doing that I had one eye on the game and the other on her laptop.
Finally, as the game ended and the Superbowl trophy was held high, Sandy did the same with her computer.
As hundreds of millions of TV viewers watched the trophy passed from hand to hand, I watched my wife do her own victory dance.
For the next hour, maybe two, I watched the cartoon video, at full volume. Not once, or twice but close to three dozen times. Because of my love of this woman, I sat there agreeing a possible Academy Award was not far off.
In truth, I did and do love it but every so often she gets on a jag to play it over and over.
On those days, I search my memory for anything I did wrong.
With all that said, go by The Linden Chronicles and take a look in the right sidebar. It is cute – once or twice.
How-to Automatically Post on Twitter from Your Google+ Page
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As more writers are engaged in Social Media and as more platforms they use, as easier it gets! Don’t believe me? OK, I will explain: You write the posts – snippets from your blog or short announcements only once, but then you copy and paste them to several of your Social Media sites. I wrote already in one of the…
January 6, 2013
Once in a Blue Moon
Reblogged from Rob Mahan Books:
August 31, 2012 – Last Blue Moon Until 2015
There was a full moon on August 1, 2012, and today, August 31, marks the second full moon of the month. Using the commonly accepted calendar definition of a Blue Moon, tonight’s moon will be the last Blue Moon for nearly three years, as the next one won’t happen until 2015. But if you side with the Farmers’ Almanac definition of a Blue Moon, the next one won’t happen until 2016.
Great information about the upcoming "Wolf Moon" Cycle.
Have Your Chocolate - And Loose Weight Too
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Recently I read this sentence somewhere on Twitter:
“I’m a positive writer and when that doesn’t work, I eat chocolate.”
Made me laugh, as it fit’s perfectly to me, even I am not a writer per se, more a blogger and compiler of non-fiction guide books. E-book formatting companies often dread non-fiction as they are the hardest to convert into an appealing layout and they sometimes charge more for this kind of e-books.
Chocolate! My favorite and loose weight at the same time!
FREE to read for Prime Members: The Wolf's Moon
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In The Wolf’s Moon author Patrick Jones creates a spellbinding tale of an ancient animal that haunts the foothill towns of Missouri’s Ozark Mountains. An unknown group of scientists has genetically engineered a Dire Wolf into the present day. Allegedly extinct, the ferocious beast preys upon the innocent people of Maple Hills.
To hunt and kill the beast, the town folk will have to rely on the tracking feats of Mark Lansdowne.
FREE to read for Prime Members: The Wolf's Moon, #1 BEST SELLER
