Top Book Publishing, Marketing & Publicity Info Sources
I was working with a Miller Mosaic client on Skype for a book marketing brainstorming session. The author mentioned he was the first in his family to publish a book and he knew nothing about the book publishing world.
It has been four years since I threw myself into learning as much as I could about the online marketing world in general and book marketing in specific. I pondered how today I would recommend a new person start to learn about this arena.
I came up with this short list of recommended information sources (note that these are NOT affiliate links):
Joan Stewart the Publicity Hound blog
Penny Sansevieri’s book marketing blog
Aggie Villanueva’s promotion blog
To subscribe to Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s newsletter (scroll down on right-hand side)
Digital Book Today (new blog posts on home page)
Joel Friedlander’s blog (new blog posts on home page)
Miller Mosaic online marketing blog
Although there are many other online marketers I admire and follow, I wanted to make this a short list so as not to overwhelm people new to these topics.
Advanced info: For those of you who are interested in learning how to convert your own books into ebooks, I recommend the blog series starting with this post.
FREE KINDLE BOOKS: On Tuesday, July 24, and Wednesday, July 25, TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO MARKET YOUR BOOK ON AMAZON AND FACEBOOK and my new thriller CIA FALL GUY will be free on Amazon as part of the KDP Select program. Mark your calendars now and please tell your friends.
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Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks. A new nonfiction ebook of hers is TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO MARKET YOUR BOOK ON AMAZON AND FACEBOOK and her newest fiction ebook is the thriller CIA FALL GUY.
Click here to visit her Amazon author page at amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller
She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com
Phyllis, I’m proud that my newsletter made your top list of resources for writers. I view it as a kind of extension of my multi award-winning The Frugal Book Promoter (http://budurl.com/FrugalBkPromo). I’m passionate about helping new authors avoid the potholes so many of us fall into–and about helping experienced authors do a more professional job with their own publicity.
Glad to see so many of my own favorites on this list, too.
Best,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Excited about the new edition (expanded! updated! even more helpful for writers!) of The Frugal Book Promoter, now a USA Book News award-winner in its own right (www.budurl.com/FrugalBkPromo)
Carolyn, you do a wonderful service for writers with your newsletter. And all authors should have your book THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER.