To read this great article by Author Judith Briles click on her photo or link below: 7-rules-to-be-successful-as-an-author/
Author: Jasveena R Prabhagaran
A Poet’s Poetry*
Source: A Poet’s Poetry*
Selling Books Through Social Media – HarsH ReaLiTy
An honest opinion ! 🙂
Brand Yourself as Authors with IBP
What does ‘author branding’ mean?
As an author, branding yourself means picking the unique features of yourself and your work that are interesting and appealing to readers to make you distinctive, in a world overrun with talented up-and-coming authors.
Why is branding essential for authors?
You and your publicists will be responsible for your book’s marketing and publicity. You, as the author, need to find a way to make your work stand out. Establishing yourself as a unique brand should increase the interest in your work, and set a standard for future releases.
Take a new route to brand yourself as the new age author! Now, imagine yourself hosting a book release event. What would you offer as souvenirs for your fans at author events? IBP envisions authors as authorpreneurs and we are here to help you brand yourself as authors through merchandises.
We are glad to announce that you, as authors, can now purchase a wide variety of CUSTOM MADE author merchandises like name cards, bookmarks, mugs, writing tools, pen drives and etc. through IBP. While we work on having the catalogues ready, we thought that you would like to grab the Christmas offer below.
Special OFFER: Get 150 pcs of metal pen engraved with words and logo for only $400 (including shipping within USA). Order by 23rd Dec 2015. Contact info@internationalbookpromotion.com for details.
New Review for Book Trailer Service
We are so proud to announce that we’ve tried a full swing of cinematic trailer without texts and voice overs for author Karen D. Rouillard’s project and it turned out to be amazing. Check out the review below and the link to watch the trailer can be found right below (hyperlinked with the word trailer).
Please send your feedback on the trailer and let us know your thoughts.
Working with the team at IBP made my experience with having my first trailer done for my book easy and so I had so much fun working with them. They understood what I was looking for and the end result is fantastic. I will definitely work with them again. – author Karen Doherty Rouillard
Half The World Now Own An Ebook-Friendly Smartphone. Still Think Going Global Is A Crazy Idea?
Half The World Now Own An Ebook-Friendly Smartphone. Still Think Going Global Is A Crazy Idea?
Latest stats show the world’s total population at 7.3 billion. And over half of them – 51% – own smartphones that could be carrying our ebooks.
A quarter billion people have started using the internet for the first time just in 2015. 300 million people around the world have used social media for the first time this year. In almost every case that has been driven by globile – that is, global mobile.
And the growth rates are accelerating, not slowing.
The scale of our potential global readership is simply staggering, and growing literally by the day.
Obviously its not quite that black and white – not all smartphone users are actually connected to the internet, fewer still will be readers, and fewer still of those will actually be able to access our ebooks even if we have the best possible distribution.
But when we start talking numbers on this…
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The Gateway by Jeremy Breitenbach
Jeremy Breitenbach
My name is Jeremy Breitenbach. I am legally blind with cerebral palsy. I use Braille. I’ve been writing since I was 15. I started out with writing original stories based off of The Legend of Zelda and original stories based off a ’90’s cartoon I love called Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, but in the years since I stopped writing the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog stories, but still continued to write The Legend of Zelda stories. I evetually created an original series based on The Legend of Zelda consisting of 3 books so far. I also began writing my own original stories based on the anime Dragon Ball Z (which I’m a HUGE fan of); so far writing 3 original Dragon Ball Z stories. In 2009, I started writing my first real book; a book for adults entitled The Gateway finishing it in 2011. While writing that I began writing children’s books. I’ve written four (so far). Those books being: The Abduction of Benjamin Williams, My Dog George, Tim’s Story, and Lost in Wisconsin. I also wrote a how-to book entitled How To Read and Write Braille. In 2014, I came across Author Ronnie C. Dawson, CEO and founder of Broken Bars Publishing and told him about myself and all 6 of my books. I e-mailed him The Gateway, and long story short I published it through them. It’s available on Broken Bars Publishing’s website, Amazon in paperback and Kindle, and Barns and Noble’s website for Nook. Here’s what all 6 of my books are about – How To Read and Write Braille: details how to read and write Braille, The Gateway: a physicist opens a gateway on a planet within another dimension which leads to an alien invasion; violence and strong language, The Abduction of Benjamin Williams: a family gets betrayed by a neighbor they thought they could trust, My Dog George: a boy’s dog runs away, Tim’s Story: A boy becomes an orphan after his parents are killed in a tragic car crash. (None of the characters in this book are based on actual people. The basis for this book was inspired by the story told in Contemporary Christian Music artist Steven Curtis Chapman’s song “When Love Takes You In”, and Tim’s red hair was inspired by the hair color of the orphan boy in Steven Curtis Chapman’s song “All I Really Want”.), and Lost in Wisconsin: a boy gets separated from his parents while they are going on vacation, and due to his dyslexia boards the wrong plane. Excerpts from all 6 of these books can be found under the “Notes” tab of both my official Facebook page and my personal timeline (for those that wish to “Follow” me). Here’s what the books in my original The Legend of Zelda series are about – The Hyrulean Civil War: The Saga of King Link, Book 1 (a civil war breaks out in Hyrule), The Rezlorian Empire: The Saga of King Link, Book 2 (an emperor wants to conquer Hyrule), and The Great Moblin Invasion: The Saga of King Link, Book 3 (the King of the Moblins plans to invade the Upper World). Here’s what my Dragon Ball Z original stories are about – The Return of King Piccolo (King Piccolo returns to Earth to seek revenge on Goku), Turles’ Revenge (Several years after his defeat, Turles escapes from Hell in another attempt at taking over the Earth), and The Return of Garlic Jr. (The shattering of dimensions caused by Janemba destroys the barrier which separates the Dead Zone from Earth’s dimension once again releasing Garlic Jr). Excerpts from The Legend of Zelda original series and my original Dragon Ball Z stories can only be found under the “Notes” tab of my personal timeline. (They will not be put into Notes on my official Facebook page. So if you are interested in reading any of these particular stories feel free to “Follow” me.)
The Gateway (paperback):http://www.amazon.com/The-Gateway-Jeremy-Breitenbach/
dp/1502377047/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415224433&sr=8-1&keywords=t
he+gateway+jeremy+breitenbach
The Gateway (kindle):http://www.amazon.com/Gateway-Jeremy-Breitenbach-ebook/d
p/B00P453Y2M/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415224433&sr=8-1-fkmr0
&keywords=the+gateway+jeremy+breitenbach
My listing on Broken Bars Publishing: http://www.brokenbarspublishing.com/our-authors
Official Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJeremyBreitenbach
Personal Timeline (click “follow” I will not be adding friends sorry):https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.breitenbach
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How Authors Are Under Utilising LinkedIn
Posted by A.S. Chung.
Award-wining author of children’s picture books A Brand New Day: about divorce and Wishful Wedding: about LGBT equality and same gender families. Creator of Pigeonhole Books and blogs about self-publishing, writing, online book marketing, peer bloggers and illustrators.
HOW AUTHORS ARE UNDER UTILISING LINKEDIN
ONLINE BOOK MARKETING TIP #029
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How much of LinkedIn do you actually use?
Browse through the “Interest” tab and what do you see? How many of those functions do you utilise to your advantage either for informational purposes or as a marketing tool to promote your books? Let’s explore some of these offerings.
COMPANY PAGES
A Company Page allows you to learn more about a specific company you may interested in. By following a business of interest to you, you can:
- Learn more about the company, such as a publishing corporation, as you browse through their overview and any…
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