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Avoid Marketing Missteps

April 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I’m still thinking about one of the posts I included in last week’s writing roundup.
Abiola Adams discussed the importance of her platform and of controlling how her book was marketed. Her books crossed genres in such a way that it was hard to find the right niche. For example, she saw her book initially marketed [...]

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A Library Request Chain

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

After attending Caroline Miller’s talk on book marketing earlier this month, I’ve been thinking about how to get my book into libraries.

Miller suggested asking your friends to request it, using either the paper or online forms or just a face-to-face conversation with the person in charge of acquisitions.
The more I thought about it, the more [...]

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Marketing That Book

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Many days, I like to wax poetic about the things I have learned from my adventures in writing. Today, I want to do some learning.
I have learned a lot about marketing a book online, and I have some ideas about marketing one in the offline world. But, I’m hoping to gather some great tips from [...]

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