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"I purchased The Frugal Book Promoter 1st Edition in 2004 and scoured it for ideas to promote my debut novel. I used it so much that its pages are worn. It's full of post-its I stuck in with reminders of what I should do and when. The countless ideas about marketing were a valuable resource for publicizing my book. I have fifty reviews on Amazon and have sold more copies than I thought possible. The Frugal Book Promoter was a gold mine!
"I've recently discovered an UPDATED gold mine. Carolyn Howard Johnson's SECOND EDITION of The Frugal Book Promoter, available in eBook and print versions, is packed and twice as thick as the first version. Do you want to hit the marketing world running with your book? I highly recommend you utilize the many resources in the Second Edition. The information is completely current and easy to follow. This excellent resource puts you, the author, in the driver's seat to do what your publisher can't to promote your book. A huge plus--the tips are "nearly free" (to quote the cover subtitle).
"Today's technology, social networking and marketing techniques are covered. Updated web resources abound. Advice in sync with today's Internet are incorporated:
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Blogging tips and pitfalls
Blogging tips and pitfalls *Obtaining reviews and avoiding scams
Obtaining reviews and avoiding scams *Finding places to pitch your book
Finding places to pitch your book *Using the eBook explosion to promote sales
Using the eBook explosion to promote sales *Using Google alerts to full advantage
Using Google alerts to full advantage *Staying on top of current trends in the publishing industry
Staying on top of current trends in the publishing industry *Writing quality query, media release letters and scripts for telephone pitches
Writing quality query, media release letters and scripts for telephone pitches *Putting together power point and author talk presentations
Putting together power point and author talk presentations "Don't have deep pockets to pay a pricey publicist? Do you want your book to get maximum exposure? This book is a game-changer and the best investment in your book's future you can make. Carolyn Howard Johnson is an author who understands authors and generously shares her savvy about marketing. Highly recommended."
Review by Holly Weiss, author of Crestmont
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The second edition of The Frugal Book Promoter is an updated version of the multi award-winning first edition. It has been expanded to include simple ways to promote books using newer technology--always considering promotion and marketing techniques that are easy on the pocketbook and frugal of time. It also includes a multitude of ways for authors and publishers to promote the so-called hard-to-promote genres. The award-winning author of poetry and fiction draws on a lifetime of experience in journalism, public relations, retailing, marketing, and the marketing of her own books to give authors the basics they need for do-it-yourself promotion and fun, effective approaches that haven't been stirred and warmed over, techniques that will help rocket their books to bestselling lists. You'll also learn to write media releases, query letters and a knock 'em dead media kit--all tools that help an author find a publisher and sell their book once it's in print.
From Carolyn Howard-Johnson:
I am best known as The Frugal Book Promoter but I want to be known as a literary writer, poet and all round smart and giving marketer. You can see I have a problem with branding, not because I don't know how to brand but because my career is so diverse. Ha!
I'm now an instructor for UCLA Extension Writers' Program. www.UCLAExtension.edu.
My stories and poems have appeared in anthologies like: Pass/Fail, edited by Rose A. O. Kleidon, PhD; and in journals like Pear Noir, Front Range, The Pedestal Magazine and many more. One of my poems won first place in the Franklin Christoph prize, 2010.
I was given the Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award by California Legislature members, Carol Liu, Dario Frommer and Jack Scott. I can't help but be proud of that.
My first novel, This Is The Place, and my book of creative nonfiction, Harkening, are both multi award-winners. A chapbook of my poetry, published by Finsihing Line Press.com was named a Ten Best Read by the Compulsive Reader and the Military Writers Society of America honored it with a selver medal for excellence. I have also partnered with Magdalena Ball for the Celebration Series of poetry chapbooks including She Wore Emerald Then, Cherished Pulse, Imagining the Future and a coming one for Christmas called Blooming Red. I also wrote a screenplay, The Killing Ground.
THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER: HOW TO DO WHAT YOUR PUBLISHER WON'T became an instant best seller as an e-book on ebookad and the paperback opened to rave reviews on Amazon. It is now the first in a the How To Do It Frugally series. THE FRUGAL EDITOR: PUT YOUR BEST BOOK FORWARD TO AVOID HUMILIATION AND ENSURE SUCCESS is the next. I published a little book to go with it on word trippers and other gremlins lying in wait to trip you up. It is GREAT LITTLE LAST-MINUTE EDITING TIPS.
The Book Publicists of Southern California honored me with their Irwin Award and the Pasadena Weekly for literary activism. My hometown's Character and Ethics Committee honored me for my work promoting tolerance with my writing.
Yes, I am having fun yet!
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"The book is . . .full of ideas, strategies, and tips for promoting your book cheaply, in innovative and effective ways, but it has been updated with a much greater focus on new technologies, the all-important social networks, and a range of stratgies designed to help authors with less commercial offerings such as poetry and fiction.
". . . rich with classic techniques too, such as media releases, query letters, and a whole fantastic chapter pulling together a media kit. There's information on using bylines, writing a biography, obtaining endorsements and blurbs, distribution of releases, obtaining reviews, tradeshows, book fairs, setting up a website, and many more 'must-do' items
~ Magdalena Ball
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Don't have deep pockets to pay a pricey publicist? Do you want your book to get maximum exposure? This book is a game-changer and the best investment in your book's future you can make.
~Holly Weiss "Crestmont"
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