[A few days ago I came across Joel Friedlander's post - Getting Started with Scribd.com and passed it on to friends. One thing led to another and soon I was asking our in-house author Chetan Dhruve for his opinion. What he had to say would be of interest to most authors so, over to Chetan. :) ]
A disclaimer first: I’m a part of the BookBuzzr team. But I’m writing this post as a selfish author hell-bent on using the best marketing tools for my book, regardless of my affiliation with BookBuzzr.
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Archive for: March 2010
BookBuzzr Interviews Myne Whitman – Author of ‘A HEART TO MEND’
Nkem Akinsoto aka Myne Whitman is a Nigerian writer/editor based in Seattle, USA, and currently writes on her website mynewhitman. Her blog runs a web-based naija blogsville interactive story on www.mynewhitmanwrites.com. The blog started out with excerpts from a manuscript she was writing which she has now self-published via AuthorHouse. The author grew up during the 1980's in Enugu, Nigeria. Her earliest memories are of reading everything she could lay her hands on, studying and then trying to Read more [...]
Review: Conducting Twitter Contests by Tony Eldridge
Phew! I've just gone through Tony Eldridge’s Conducting Twitter Contests and first reaction; Wow!
It's been a quick skim but I already know that I'm going to go back for more. Tony has used a novel way to present his topic; he uses text and video so, you can read; absorb, and then watch and reinforce.
In this course Tony covers –
• Selecting the audience
• Planning a contest
• Pre-contest promotion
• Selecting prizes and setting rules
• Creating a tracking system and contest Read more [...]
Brand New Category: Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips
It’s been a little over two months since we started the BookBuzzr blog. Our objective of creating this blog was to share marketing techniques, tips, books, authors, experts, etc. with our growing community of 4000+ authors and 9000+ Twitter followers.
BookBuzzr was born in the mind of an author based on his needs. Since the day we shared BookBuzzr with authors across the world, we have learned a lot from them. Thank you to all authors, publishers and readers who have supported BookBuzzr. (BookBuzzr Read more [...]
BookBuzzr Interviews Author Ana Antunes
Ana Antunes wrote poems and short-stories for an anthology by Mackenzie Publishing. She finished high school in "Translator and Interpreter in English" at Mackenzie Institute. She graduated in Arts with License in Artistic Education at the University in Sao Paulo (FAAP), in French at Alliance Francaise, and Ballet with honour in artistic merit. She performed Carmina Burana at the Opera House, with Young Ballet of Sao Paulo, in international dance/theater companies, as staff member for the Metropolitan Read more [...]
BookBuzzr Interviews Gary William Murning – Author of ‘If I Never’
Gary is a novelist living in the northeast of England. His work, largely literary fiction, focuses on themes that touch us all — love, death, loss and aspiration — but always with an eye to finding an unusual angle or viewpoint. Quirky and highly readable, his writing aims to entertain first and foremost. If he can also offer a previously unfamiliar perspective or insight, all the better.
His first novel, If I Never, is published by Legend Press and is now available from all major bookstores.
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A Delightful Email from Author Jim Musgrave
Today, we received an email from author Jim Musgrave who says, "Just a line or two to tell you that I sold four Kindle books and two paperback books in the first week I had them at BookBuzzr. That's more marketing sales than I have ever had spending thousands of dollars on online campaigns and "public relations" promotion. This stuff really works! You've got a goldmine in marketing, so keep it up for us "Indie" from "India" authors!"
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BookBuzzr Interviews Author Kaylin McFarren
Linda Yoshida, writing as Kaylin McFarren, minored in English in college and for the past twenty years has led PR/marketing efforts for several companies within her family's international conglomerate. She is a wife and mother of three, and resides in Oregon. In addition to serving on numerous foundations and boards, she actively works with multi-published critique partners and is a member of several writers' organizations, including Willamette Writers and Romance Writers of America. Although FLAHERTY’S Read more [...]
Team BookBuzzr celebrates Holi festival
Team BookBuzzr celebrated Holi - an Indian festival where friends smear color on each other. Here's a sampling of the madness in our office yesterday!
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