Fourteen Publicity Hounds had advice for Julie Berry of Rivendell Communications in Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania. Julie's company represents an author who has become an expert on grief and loss. The author is also a mountain climber and nature lover who enjoys sharing the lessons she learns from physical challenges with nature. Julie said typical book … [Read more...]
Author gets tips for promoting SAT book for students
Jacqui Byrne of Fanwood, New Jersey gets great tips from Publicity Hounds on how to promote her SAT Vocabulary Express, a book of word puzzles to teach high school students to play with words, to take them apart, and to increase their vocabulary and, ultimately, their verbal SAT score. From Carol Johnson of Schaumburg, Illinois: "Consider … [Read more...]
Authors can sell, sell, sell on talk radio shows
Want to get booked on top radio shows, sell hundreds of books, give great interviews and be invited back? Learn how when book marketing guru John Kremer sponsors a free teleseminar at 8 PM Eastern Time on Monday, April 11, featuring Alex Carroll of RadioPublicity.com The number to call to … [Read more...]
How to revive a dying book marketing campaign
Two to three months after the typical book hits bookstores, sales usually start to diminish, sometimes for as long as eight or nine months.
Many authors go into panic mode, frightened that their sales can't possibly regain momentum.
Book publicist Lissa Warren knows the feeling. And she tells her clients that the slump is to be … [Read more...]
Authors rent a mall storefront for grassroots selling
Thanks to Publicity Hound Paul Rhetts of Albuquerque, New Mexico for telling us about the 200 New Mexico authors and publishers who banded together during the holidays to sell local books in a storefront at a local mall.
Frustrated by the difficulties getting their books stocked in local and regional bookstores, the New Mexico Book … [Read more...]
How to promote a mystery novel
Prudy Taylor Board of Delray Beach, Florida wants to know how to promote her book, "Murder a la Carte," the first a series titled Recipes for Murder.
From Harry Hoover of Huntersville, North Carolina:
"Every major paper has a food writer or editor. Pitch a story about how to do a themed dinner party featuring murder, mayhem and … [Read more...]
Healthy ideas help author promote spinach cookbook
Burgundy Olivier of Lafayette, Louisiana asks:
"On every list I see about the Top 3 or Top 10 healthy foods for disease-prevention, spinach is always on the list, usually in the top spot. How can I use this fact in the publicity arena?
"I have, what is believed to be, the world's only 'exclusively spinach' cookbook, and … [Read more...]
Dad gets ideas for promoting “Father of a Preemie”
Jeff Stimpson of New York, New York wrote the book "Alex: The Fathering of a Preemie" and wants ideas on how to get speaking engagements throughout the U.S. to promote the book.
From Christina Steder of Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
"I would suggest partnering with the March of Dimes. They are in the midst … [Read more...]
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Amazon river of gold
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