We are pleased to announce that Sandie Lee a freelance writer has created the sneak peak trailer for BookBuzzr. She has done sneak peek trailers for several authors and also contract herself out (personally and through Ascot Media). Her company is called TattleTott Productions and her work can be seen through the YouTube channel at; […]
Talk About Marketing Books!
Guest Author: P.I. Barrington There are lots of ways to market books. Getting reviews, doing blog tours, posting guest blogs, even radio interviews are priceless in marketing your book and I mean that as a double entendre’: they are usually free and you get sometimes huge audience exposure! But there is another mode of marketing […]
How To Create A Podcast
Guest Expert: Joanna Penn Podcasting is a brilliant way to reach people with your brand, whether it’s through interviewing experts in your niche or podcasting your novel. Multi-media posts also enable people to get to know you in a more personal way. People need to know, like and trust you in order to buy your […]
How to Market Your Book with Free Giveaways
Guest: Dan Petrovic Marketing a book means being creative. After all, there are new book releases coming out every other day. Staying ahead of the competition means thinking about how you can make a title and its author memorable. This is where giveaways really come in handy. People like to receive free things. The […]
Interview with Joel Friedlander author of A Self-Publisher’s Companion: Expert Advice For Authors Who Want To Publish
It is our great pleasure today to feature an interview with Joel Friedlander who has over 30 years of experience in the publishing business. Joel operates a popular blog that offers advice on navigating through the brave new world of ebooks, indie publishing, book marketing and book designing. Joel is the author of The Self-Publisher’s […]
Using Book Trailers to Promote Your Book
Guest Author: Dana Michelle Burnett When I wrote my first book, I followed the advice on all the book marketing blogs and began trying to sift through all the information. One suggestion that kept coming up was to create a book trailer and upload it to YouTube.com. The idea seemed easy enough. I had used […]
The Book Trailer Lament: Can Authors Achieve High Production Values on the Cheap?
Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield Does Dan (The Da Vinci Code) Brown need a book trailer? Well, no. Dan Brown does not. He’s got two ever-so-suspenseful and special-effects-filled Hollywood movies based on his most popular novels. Novels that sold millions of copies, worldwide, before they were ever adapted for the big screen. But few authors are […]
Book Trailers: Five Things Shteyngart Gets Right
Guest: Thomas Doane 1. The ‘Viral’ Element: Style/Content The style of the trailer reflects the content of the book. Shteyngart’s book is a satire; therefore, his trailer is satirical. Obviously, this particular trailer is hilarious, which helped it to become a viral sensation. At 150,000 views, this is not exactly Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday,’ but it’s […]
The BookBuzzr Gold Rush Begins
Update: Congratulations to our BookBuzzr Grand Prize Winner – Amanda Taylor (@a_k_taylor) on winning a basket of book marketing goodies worth over $2000 from experts across the publishing industry. A special thank you to all who participated and made the contest such fun. We enjoyed running this contest for all you authors out there and […]
Video Marketing for Authors: Four Ways to Optimize Your YouTube Channel
Guest Expert: Shelley Hitz As an author, have you considered video marketing? I encourage you to sit down and plan out your book marketing efforts and determine how you can incorporate video. Why? Well, we definitely live in a video generation and video is one of the fastest ways to connect with your readers and fans. […]
How to Make a Book Trailer
Expert: Claudia Jackson In today’s book publishing world, old publicity techniques are no longer enough. Talking your local paper into writing a small blurb about your opus won’t get you anywhere. Social networking and Internet promotion are the keys to success in the new world of eBooks and print on demand. One way to stir […]