Selling your book to libraries can be lucrative, whether you write fiction or nonfiction. Here’s a fast, easy way to get your book in front of 4,000 librarians throughout the United States. Read more
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Authors: Use My Publicity Templates
Struggling to sell more books? Or not sure how to launch the book that’s almost ready? Joan Stewart developed these Groundbreaking Book Publicity Templates that will shave months off the chore of building your brand, attracting attention and selling your books. Professional Books Need a Professional Looking Media Kit – Learn More The Most Important… Read More
Employee recruitment, retention booklets still available for bulk orders
If you’re looking for clever ways to find qualified employees and keep them, you’ll find more than 200 tips in my two tips booklets “113 Tips for Finding Valuable Employees” and “107 Tips for Keeping Valuable Employees.” I took them off the market a few years ago because I first published them in 2000 and… Read More
Use my 5 sample fill-in-the-blanks pitches when you ask for a product or book review
How long does it take you to write an email pitch to an editor or blogger? It could take longer than an hour or two by the time you write, rewrite, edit, tweak, refine, tighten, polish and proofread your pitch. But you don’t have that kind of time, do you? That’s why I’ve written five… Read More
The 7 Deadly Sins of Pitching Journalists and Bloggers
If you want publicity, or you simply want a big-shot blogger to pay attention to you, you can deliver a decent pitch with a little writing talent and some research. Doing your research before you pitch will make them far more likely to cover your story, because you’ll be pitching the right people, not the ones… Read More
The huge advantage of TV publicity vs. print and how to get on TV–free training today
If you want to get into a big national magazine, you’d better be pitching your idea six months ahead of the publication date. That’s the long lead time for many magazines. But if you wake up tomorrow at 7 a.m. and discover a major story has broken overnight, and you’re the perfect expert to comment… Read More
7 reasons the media want your helpful, how-to tips lists
Need publicity but can’t think of any newsworthy stories about your business to offer to journalists? Frustrated because the story ideas you ARE pitching seem to have fallen into a big black hole? If so, turn to the simple tips list, which should be a staple in your publicity campaign and which can get you… Read More
Children’s authors: How to sell hundreds of books by visiting schools
This guest post was written by Kevin Gerard, a fantasy adventure author whose books for young adults include the series Conor and the Crossworlds series and Diego’s Dragon. Follow him on Twitter. * * * By Kevin Gerard If you write children’s novels, school visits are an enjoyable… Read More
How tips lists can get you major stories in top-tier media
It’s one of the most basic tools in your publicity toolbox, and Publicity Hounds have been using it for decades to get mountains of publicity in national print and broadcast media. It’s called the tips list, or tip sheet. The headlines look similar to these: 9 Ways to Convince Your Kids to Take a Nap… Read More
5 ways to use curated lists of blogs in your niche
When you find a list of the top experts in your niche, even if you aren’t included on it, don’t just give it a passing glance and move on. Figure out how you can use that information to make more contacts, become smarter, and get more publicity. This blog was just named to the list… Read More