Love to See You at the Beach and at My Writers Workshop

This is the perfect place for the many authors who frequent this blog to learn more in one place and take a vacation, too!  There are presentations, panels, agent interviews, and I'm doing this workshop.  Kathleen Kaiser is the director. If you should decide to go, be sure to introduce yourself to me. Wouldn't that be fun!

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Are you an indie author with a self-published book or are thinking of doing so soon? Want to learn how to maximize books sales? Pictured above from left to right: Carolyn Howard-Johnson, bestselling author on book marketing; Zhena Muzyka, author and former publisher; and, Penny Sansevieri, bestselling author and book marketer. Learn more about the sessions and register now! Amazon, your primary sales outlet, has lots of twists and turns but these speakers will tell you how. Two even have a bestselling book title on Amazon RIGHT NOW,  Penny Sansevieri is both a bestselling author and top book marketer. Her new book is an updated version of HOW TO SELL BOOKS BY THE TRUCKLOAD ON AMAZON—Learn how to turn Amazon into your 24/7 sales machine! (This book is #1 in Direct Marketing on Amazon) Penny will be leading two sessions at the conference- MASTERING AMAZON: Optimizations, Ads, and the Perfect Book Launch, a two-hour session where Penny will walk you through what you must do. This will be the keynote on Sunday.   Another part of making sales is Penny’s second session, Building Your Street Teams – The Secrets to Selling More Books, on Saturday afternoon. She will walk you through how to attract followers and turn them into people who promote your books. Carolyn Howard-Johnson is a bestselling author (her latest is #4 on Amazon Direct Marketing). Her session YOUR BOOK’S FUTURE: Great Starts and Great Reboots will take you through how to launch and most importantly, how to re-launch your book with sales begin to lag. This will be a three-hour hands-on workshop limited to 20 people on Saturday afternoon and is a separate ticket from the conference. Zhena Muzyka is an award-winning, purpose-driven social entrepreneur, teacher, author, executive coach, public speaker, and former publisher of Enliven Books, a new Mind-Body-Spirit imprint from Atria/Simon and Schuster. Zhena’s critically acclaimed book, Life by the Cup, chronicles her experience growing a multimillion-dollar fair trade tea company, Zhena’s Gypsy Tea, as a single mom with $6 to her name in hopes to inspire others to achieve their most audacious dreams. Life by the Cup is in development for a TV series by Mark Wahlberg’s production company, creators of HBO shows Boardwalk Empire, Entourage, Ballers, and In Treatment. She will be the keynoter on Saturday, showing you have How to funnel sales through your author platform to maximize sales. These three sessions and workshop are presented to give you options for what you can do to increase your sales and establish yourself as an author. Publishing is a business, and you need to have an understanding of the world you are working into. Even with a deal with a traditional publisher, they will expect you to have a platform and use it to market your book. The days of New York arranging everything died this century.  It’s not magic, and it’s only a mystery if you don’t have the people with resources to show you how.  The 805 Writers Conference brings you the tools, skills, and resources to succeed!  "The 805 Writers' Conference was an incredible value and I would definitely recommend it to new or established authors. Unfortunately the day went by too quickly!  I had an amazing experience and accomplished everything I wanted to, and then some." Register NOW Sponsoring literary groups

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 The New Book Review is blogged by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers. Authors, readers, publishers, and reviewers may republish their favorite reviews of books they want to share with others. That includes authors who want to share their favorite reviews, reviewers who'd like to see their reviews get more exposure, and readers who want to shout out praise of books they've read and love. Please see submission guidelines on the left of this page and in a tab at the top of this blog's home page. Reviews and essays are indexed by genre, reviewer names, and review sites so it may be used a resource for most anyone in the publishing industry. Writers will find the search engine handy for gleaning the names of small publishers. Find other writer-related blogs at Sharing with Writers and The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor. #TheFrugalbookPromoter, #CarolynHowardJohnson, #TheNewBookReview, #TheFrugalEditor, #SharingwithWriters, #reading #BookReviews #GreatBkReviews #BookMarketing

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 The New Book Review is blogged by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning series of books for writers. Authors, readers, publishers, and reviewers may republish their favorite reviews of books they want to share with others. That includes authors who want to share their favorite reviews, reviewers who'd like to see their reviews get more exposure, and readers who want to shout out praise of books they've read and love. Please see submission guidelines on the left of this page and in a tab at the top of this blog's home page. Reviews and essays are indexed by genre, reviewer names, and review sites so it may be used a resource for most anyone in the publishing industry. Writers will find the search engine handy for gleaning the names of small publishers. Find other writer-related blogs at Sharing with Writers and The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor. #TheFrugalbookPromoter, #CarolynHowardJohnson, #TheNewBookReview, #TheFrugalEditor, #SharingwithWriters, #reading #BookReviews #GreatBkReviews #BookMarketing
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