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Frugal Book Promotion with Carolyn Howard-Johnson

On November 15th, 2007 Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with award-winning author Carolyn Howard-Johnson, creative force behind the HowToDoItFrugally Series of Books for writers. She has just released  second book in the series, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. Carolyn shared her best tips and strategies for low-cost/zero-cost marketing campaigns and also talked about what NOT to do to market your books.  She also talks about the value of editing and how it directly controls how your proposals, books, and marketing are peceived in the marketplace.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, won three. An instructor for UCLA Extension’s world-renown Writers’ Program, her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t was named USA Book News’ “Best Professional Book 2004,” and was given the Irwin Award. Her second book in the How To Do It Frugally series is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. Her chapbook of poetry Tracings, was named to the Compulsive Reader’s Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military Writers’ Society of America’s Silver Award of Excellence. She is the recipient of the California Legislature’s Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award, and her community’s Character and Ethics Committee awarded her work promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly’s list of 14 “San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen.”

Listen to interview on Authors Access.

Attention authors! Should you self-publish your book?

Listen to Brent Sampson talk about self-publishing. See what company offers 5 turn-key publishing packages so you get exactly what you need without paying for what you don’t. And only Outskirts Press offers 15 different formats with the Diamond package, the most offered anywhere!

Listen to interview on Reader Views

How to get a 6-Figure Advance - Before You Write Your Book with Susan Harrow

On Thursday, August 9th, 2007 Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with Susan Harrow, CEO of PRSecrets.com. She is a media trainer and marketing consultant and author of the books, Sell Yourself without Selling Your Soul, “The Ultimate Guide to Getting Booked on Oprah” “Get Into O Magazine” and Get a 6 Figure Book Advance. We talked with her about how you can get a 6 figure book advance like more than 10 of her clients and can become a best-selling author too! She also shared solid tips on how to get yourself an agent, how to develop an irresistible platform, and strategies to create an auction so your book sells to the highest bidder.Susan’s clients include Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial ventures, and best-selling authors including, iVillage, PlanetRx,  The Yellow Pages (SBC), Bill Graham Presents, Gillette/, the North Face, Random House, Doubleday, Celestial Arts, Addison-Wesley, and many others. She has media coached people who have appeared on top national radio and TV talk shows, and publications.

Susan has written for The San Francisco Examiner, Advertising Age, Bride’s, Complete Woman, The San Francisco Business Times, Bay Area Business Woman, Writer’s Digest, , and Sharing Ideas.She has been profiled in Salon Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today online, and Investor’s Business Daily. Through keynotes, seminars and individual and corporate coaching she trains clients to define and control their public image, handle any type of media interview, and create irresistible story ideas for producers, editors and news directors.

Listen to Susan’s topic: How to get a 6-Figure Advance - Before You Write Your Book.

Free 60 minute TeleSeminar with Joe Farcht!

Joe Farcht is offering a free 60 minute TeleSeminar on Tuesday, August 28, at 12:30 CDT. People who sign up will have the opportunity to obtain solutions to their biggest challenges from both Joe Farcht and Patty Cook. For those who have a scheduling conflict should still register because everyone who registers will get an audio recording that may just provide a solution to your problem. In addition, Joe is offering a 10-Week Development Program of TeleSeminar Calls Entitled Personal Leadership Secrets: Getting More Out of Work & Life.
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Amira Press - New Publishing Company Seeks Manuscript Submissions

Amira Press has been the dream of Yvette A. Lynn for many years. Now, they are excited to finally bring Amira Press into existence and they are confident that you will find their company to be comparable to other small press publishers. At Amira Press, the mission is to provide an experience so far out of the ordinary, that their readers will look to stay lost forever in the worlds the writers have created for the reader’s enjoyment. They strive to bring you stories that grip the imagination and refuses to let go, driving you to beg for more. They stand behind their name ‘Amira’ Press, Amira being a name for princess in the Swahili language. Their name demands excellence in writing and in plot. And that’s just what they offer.

Listen to interview with Debbie Hearld, Managing Editor, on Reader Views

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