I also did a podcast
about book launches with the marvelous Zoe Winters if you'd like to listen as well.
Not exact matches
Rising Strong, her newest
book (on The New York Times best seller list a week after publication), and also to talk
about a major new online learning and sharing initiative (called COURAGEworks) that she will be
launching in a few months
with Oprah and others.
Susan's course on sound bites provided laser - sharp focus for my
book (content and
launch), blog posts and interacting
with my clients — and as you know, there's a lot of noise in the online world
about honing your message.
I just signed
with a VC firm part of that decision was based on what I read in your
book about launching a product.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives
with a considerable involvement in political activity, the
book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships
with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation
with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing
with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent
launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions
about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
With the
launch of the new Best of Bridge Sunday Suppers
book a couple weeks ago, I've been talking a lot on TV, radio and various interviews
about the idea (and significance) of Sunday supper — of getting as many people as I can around the table for dinner to regroup and reconnect and get ready for the week.
The 50th anniversary of the
launch of the 3Rs concept, published in the
book «The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique» by William Russell and Rex Burch, was marked in 2009
with several organisations expressing concern
about the number of animals still being used in research.
Each year I get to do many Motivational Guest Speaking Talks
with all kinds of Community Groups, Businesses and different causes and since the launch of my brand new book: It Starts With Me: Feel Good Within and Become Your Happiest, Healthiest Self I have been doing even more motivational talks about how everything starts from within and if you want to make something happen it starts from within and only you can make it happen, you have get clear on what you want and have certanity it's going to hap
with all kinds of Community Groups, Businesses and different causes and since the
launch of my brand new
book: It Starts
With Me: Feel Good Within and Become Your Happiest, Healthiest Self I have been doing even more motivational talks about how everything starts from within and if you want to make something happen it starts from within and only you can make it happen, you have get clear on what you want and have certanity it's going to hap
With Me: Feel Good Within and Become Your Happiest, Healthiest Self I have been doing even more motivational talks
about how everything starts from within and if you want to make something happen it starts from within and only you can make it happen, you have get clear on what you want and have certanity it's going to happen.
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Book Marketing Society was launched in November 2004 with the objective of becoming the representative body of marketing within the book indus
Book Marketing Society was
launched in November 2004
with the objective of becoming the representative body of marketing within the
book indus
book industry.
The crisis was the subject of heated parliamentary debate last week,
with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to defend the idea of public services contracting,
launch a convincing investigation of what happened, take credible steps to deal
with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts of interest, and
about the impact of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded pensions that have now come onto its
books.
Rather than waiting until your
book is
about to
launch (or already has), build relationships
with key
book reviewers early.
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about Virtual
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Book Tours
with D'vorah Lansky: Recently my good friend and colleague D'vorah Lansky and I got together for a Google Hangout to talk
about her incredible new
book, 21 Ways to Launch a Successful Virtual Book T
book, 21 Ways to
Launch a Successful Virtual
Book T
Book Tour.
OpenBooks.com
launched at the London
Book Fair 2015 and I seized the opportunity to have a quick chat
with Ula and Michal
about it.
To this end, a successful
book launch is all
about generating
book sales and
book reviews
with different retailers over the first few weeks.
I haven't been blogging much
about book marketing recently, mostly because my head has been consumed
with the
launch of The Write Life Magazine.
Hi Scott, do you work individually
with someone who is
about ready to
launch their
book?
Approved by my agent at the time, I signed a traditional contract a few years ago
with publisher Aflame
Books, whose backlist (of twenty literary fiction titles in their first English translations) was
about to be supplemented by a new imprint for original - English - language fiction, starting
with my novel The Imagination Thief as this imprint's
launch title.
«TED has mastered the art of
launching intelligent conversations
about important ideas, and these
books will provide TED speakers past and future
with the opportunity to go beyond their talks and take readers deeper into their work,» said Jonathan Karp, President and Publisher of the Simon & Schuster Publishing Group.
In this post, you can read
about our initial experiences
with promoting that
launch, but Dave soon decided to put his
books into KDP Select and use KDP Free Promos or permafree instead, as it seemed more effective.
For each
book I would probably also need a gimmick or case study (which I can do
with non-fiction)... for example in a
book about book reviews, I would do a test
launch of one of my own
books, and share my secrets and results, under an exciting title like «How I got 300 reviews in under 1 hour from no list from total strangers.»
We caught up
with Terrill to ask
about the
launch of his latest release and first self - published
book, «Zora Folley: The Distinguished Life and Mysterious Death of a Gentleman Boxer,» which as of this publication had skyrocketed to become the fifth best - selling
book on boxing on Amazon within its first week and a half of publication.
This is so that anyone even remotely interested in either you as an author or your Kindle
book (s) can have a
launching point
with which to learn more
about you in as minimal amount of time as possible.
I've since changed my thinking on that
with book two, where it was all
about the
launch.
After my elementary school
launched the Accelerated Reader program — in which you take comprehension tests and accumulate points after reading
books — the Redwall series became very popular at my school library, especially
with a group of boys; they were thick and worth more points than just
about anything else.
The Seattle - based company
launched its Amazon
Books experiment
about two years ago and has since used the locations to experiment
with in - store pricing and selection.
The great thing
about this is that all those pre-sales will count on the first day the
book goes live, which will make it so much easier to
launch with a high sales rank.
So yes, sign up for it, but don't worry
about the bookstores, worry
about online sales and selling a lot of
books in a short time period
with a massive
launch, guest posting and content marketing.
A friend of mine
launched a
book at $ 3.99 and is ranking at
about 1500,
with zero reviews.
Jo and Jeff talked
about how things go now as authors
with established fan bases, and Lindsay talked
about her recent pen name
launch, where nobody knew
about the
books, and she was essentially starting from scratch as a new author.
... I love that she likens
book launch to a startup company... The fact that you can buy some of these services very cheaply is irrelevant for the author who wants to produce a quality
book that can compete head to head
with those from traditional publishers... I have little sympathy those who complain
about the costs of putting out a
book now... You don't need to spend this kind of money to self - publish a good
book successfully...
Today I chatted
with Michelle Madow and Leia Stone
about their recent
book launches — since we all
launched a
book on 1 / 26th, it's been fun to see how our different marketing choices, platform and audience has impact the success of our
books.
A video of the author is on the site, promising that the full
launch in October will contain an online reading experience unlike any other,
with descriptions that lead to interactive content, safe social networking capabilities, and the occasional jump - in from the author herself in which she will share never before released information
about the characters, the
books, and the writing of the series.
Founder Woody Sears recently presented on a panel for children's digital content at the Frankfurt
Book Fair, and again spoke today at a forum
with executives from twenty other companies at the
Launch «Pad Tablet Conference
about the «Tablet Revolution.»
Along
with at least three other writers, I will read a brief excerpt not heard at the
book launch, answer questions
about how to become an independent author, and sell copies of An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones.
Along
with at least three other writers, I will read a brief excerpt not heard at the
book launch, answer questions
about how to become an independent author, and sell copies of
It's not just
about a
book launch, but more that you continue
with investigating avenues.
Robert Kirkman spoke
with CBR News
about the newly
launched simultaneous digital and print release dates for «The Walking Dead,» saying that all of his
books would undergo a similar shift «very soon.»
With this
book launch, I asked those who signed up to the free challenge to share or tweet
about my
book launch.
Despite the frenzy of posts
about the Harry Potter ebook / Pottermore store
launch,
about which I posted earlier this week (
with plenty of links to other blogs), bloggers have found time to write
about one or two other trends and issues in the field of
books and ebooks.
To make it easy for your
book launch team to share
about your
book, create a shareables page
with swipe copy.
And finally, on the
launch of the
books generally: Futurebooks talks
about the
launch, Pottermore's (lack of) relationship
with Apple, forthcoming enhanced versions of the ebooks, and more.
Murray told PW the notion to
launch a publishing company began a year ago when her agent, Lisa Dawson, self - published some of Murray's fiction as an e-
book novel and the
book sold
about 15,000 copies
with almost no promotion.
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Also, in the first of a series of
book launches, Andy Conway reads from BURIED IN TIME, his novel
about the curious week when Jack the Ripper came to Birmingham... and came face to face
with Arthur Conan Doyle!
My friend Anakana Schofield's debut novel Malarky is
about to be published (by the excellent independent publisher Biblioasis) and I saw on Facebook that she was going to
launch the
book with a reading at the Vancouver Public Library so I wanted to make sure I'm there on March 21st.
Most people outside your family and friends won't know
about your new
book, and a
book launch allows you to share your huge accomplishment
with local media and members in your community.
It's an impressive line - up of experts talking
about everything from how to kill it
with Kindle in 30 minutes a day to how to
launch a
book.
Perhaps it is because of this that she has more than 650 reviews of her
book posted on Amazon (a 4-1/2 star overall rating) or perhaps this success is due to our curiosity
about the niche topic she so readily and easily explains
with her insider knowledge, but I'd like to think that Caitlin is a perfect example of an author
with an extensive author platform, established long before the
launch of her
book.
We'll obviously emphasize that this is a great opportunity for new authors to tell us
about their
books, but authors new and old can come and ask us anything at all — general questions
about bookselling, best practices for working
with us on
book launches, ideas for how to help promote their
books between releases, or anything on their minds
about working
with a bookstore like ours.
In the intro, I talk
about my awesome Thrillerfest experience, Kindle Unlimited, the new Kindle pricing tool and my German
book launch and first experience
with a traditional publisher.