The Frugal Book Promoter
Subtitle: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or by partnering with your publisher
Edition: Three
Awards for all editions: Winner USA Book News, coveted Irwin Award
Award, USA Book News winner, silver medal from Military Writers Society of America, honored by Global Ebook Awards
Publisher: Modern History Press
Publisher’s Website: www.modernhistorypress.com
ISBN: 9781615994687
ASIN: 978161594694
Available in hard cover, print and ebook onAmazon
Reviewed by Karen Cioffi-Ventrice originally for Amazon
Marketing and promotion are changing all the time, from the best ways to get visibility for you and your book to maintaining an effective search engine optimized website.
Continually striving to give her readers the most helpful book promotion tools possible, Carolyn Howard-Johnson has created The Frugal Book Promoter – 3rd Edition.
This third edition provides authors with the latest promotional information and resources. And, it's been reorganized for easier reading.
What's best about The Frugal Book Promoter – 3rd Edition - is that along with well researched tools and tips, it's filled with Carolyn's own marketing experiences. This includes booboos from her early marketing days when her Wiki page was taken down when she was booted off of Facebook.
As Carolyn is a well-known expert book promoter, these tips, insights, and warnings are invaluable.
This latest edition includes everything from writing a query letter to copyright information to using QR codes to backdoor methods for getting reviews. And' there's lots on "You and the Media."
Plus, there are lots and lots of samples, including sample query letters and even a sample blog entry.
My favorite line in the book is in Chapter 10:
"You can’t count on your publisher. Publishers focus on their next big profit maker when sales of your book dwindles."
This says it all.
If you're questioning the need to promote your book, even if you're traditionally published, the answer is, YES. It’s essential. And, I can't think of a better book to help you do this than Carolyn Howard-Johnson's The Frugal Book Promoter – 3rd Edition.
Karen Cioffi is a children’s ghostwriter and author/writer online platform instructor with WOW! Women on Writing. She is also the founder and editor of Writers on the Move.
Learn more about her ghostwriting services at https://karencioffiwritingforchildren.
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Carolyn, your Third Edition of The Frugal Book Promoter is full of valuable information for authors. I learned so much from it and highly recommend it. And, I'm honored that you're sharing my review on your site!
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