ENTER YOUR FAVE MARKETING TIP HERE

Hi, it's Carolyn Howard-Johnson here, creator of the blogs: #NewBookReview and #SharingWithWriters.  

MY INVITATION TO OUR SHARINGWITHWRITERS FANS

Do you have a successful marketing tip to share with your fellow authors, publicists, readers and book marketers?  Just send it to me at carolynhjohnson@icloud.com with the words "My fave marketing tip" in the subject line, and include a great creditline/introduction to your author self and your most recent book or project with links to learn more. (My super associate Lois W. St at  #SharingwithWriters blog and #TheNewBookReview blog. Lois suggests using the format below to make it ever-so-easy.)  We will publish your tip and give a special award to the one which receives the greatest number of views that month.  

A MESSAGE FROM MY ASSOCIATE, LOIS W. STERN

This is an opportunity to get more eyeballs focused on you, whether you are an author, publisher, editor or publicist. 

We all know that even the best of books won’t go far without some good marketing behind them, so how about sending Carolyn your FAVE marketing tip, using the form below. Carolyn and I will select one marketing tip each month as the WINNER OF THE MONTH, based on the number of views it gets, and post it on this blog and TheNewBookReview blog too. And that’s a big deal ‘cause it gives you one more opportunity to highlight your accomplishments as an Author, Editor, Publisher or Marketing guru. and i'll kick it off with one of my own, THE ZODIAC--which is related to my anthology series that make great birthday gifts for anyone who reads year round!

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR FAVE MARKETING TIP:

To make the submission process easier, first copy and paste the template below to help you gather all your data. Then we will post it for FREE at: https://SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com and--if suitable--at https://TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com, too! And of course, let you. know when it will be published by sending you a permalink to use for your own promotion to encourage your audience to come support you to help you win Lois’s award icon to give you even more fun bragging rights on any or all of your social media.  

 TEMPLATE for SUBMITTING a FAV MARKETING TIP

YOUR NAME: 

YOUR CREDENTIALS:: How you want to be known  

(Author, Publicist, Editor , Marketing guru . . .)

TITLE(S) OF BOOK(S) YOU SUCCESSFULLY MARKETED:

MARKETING TIP  ITSELF, of course!

IMAGES: Please include JPEG IMAGES of your choice, (i.e. Your logo, Your headshot, logo, badge, or photo related to writing--anything that helps define you and the book you marketed). Kindly send each with an identifying caption.

ABOUT YOU, THE MARKETING GURU: With Optional Biography/credit line. 

(Don’t be shy. This is your opportunity to let readers know of all your wonderful accomplishments.)

YOUR  FAVE LINKS: Include buy links for your books, of course.

YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS: ____________________________

Do you want this email to be included with your marketing tip?

 ___ Yes ___ NO

LAST CHECK: NITTY GRITTY BUT IMPORTANT PUBLISHING STUFF

YOUR SUBMISSION WILL INCLUDE:

Your name as submitter of this marketing tip.

Title of book you are marketing.

Actual marketing tip.

Permission to print your marketing tip. 

Photos of your choice in JPEG format. (Google loves them!)

Caption to identify each submitted photo.

Note #1: If you would like to quote a testimonial or blurb of twenty-five words or less at the end of your marketing tip, please feel free to do so. 

If you need help editing blurbs, read Carolyn’s “The Frugal Editor” using the Index to find appropriate entries. 

Note #2: Watch for our new feature--a marketmatic free contest to select a winning marketing tip from among all those submitted each season--a veritable zodiac of winners!  

Yay! A way for us to extend one more lucky participant's exposure a bit farther, and give them a chance to tout another win! 

And, I (Lois) will  make an award-emblem for winners to use in their own campaigns... forever afterward.

Note #3: Did you have trouble choosing which marketing tip to submit? Not to fret, you can make a regular habit of sending them. But only one a month, and ONLY one in each submission email. 

We accept more than a single marketing tip from any given participant, spaced at 30 days or more apart. Please send each tip separately. 

ABOUT THENEWBOOKREVIEW ASSOCIATE:

Lois W. Stern is an Associate & Review Coordinator for TheNewBookReview. She is also the creator of Tales2Inspire®, an #AuthorsHelpingAuthors project/contest to help aspiring writers on their paths to discovery. And best of all, it’s Free. Lois has now published twelve Tales2Inspire® treasured Tales2Inspire Jewel Collection anthologies and six Tales2Inspire 2-in-1 Diamond Collection anthologies. As a multi award winning author, her work has been featured in the New York Times, Newsday, Long Island Press, Barnard Magazine, on Local Access TV and in live presentations in varied venues. As TheNewBookReview review coordinator, Lois serves as an outreach to help other authors brand themselves as authors of talent. 

More About #TheNewBookReview Blog 

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 in a tab at the top of this blog's home page or go directly to the submission guidelines at http://bit.ly/ThePlacetoRecycleBookReviews or to the guideline tab at the top of the home page of this blog. Authors and publishers who do not yet have reviews or want more may use Lois W. Stern's #AuthorsHelpingAuthors service  (also free) for requesting reviews. Find her guidelines in the right column of #TheNewBookReview blog home page (a silver and gold badge and three silver-gray circles beneath it located in the right column. 

Carolyn Wilhelm is our IT expert. She is an award-winning author and veteran educator and contributes reviews and posts on other topics related to books on this blog. 

Reviews, interviews, and articles on this blog are indexed by genre, reviewers' names, and review sites so #TheNewBookReview may be used as a resource for most anyone in the publishing industry. As an example, writers will find this blog's 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 HowToDoItFrugally http://bit.ly/ThePlacetoRecycleBookReviews. 

Book Review:: DESPERATELY SEEKING PERSEPHONE by Janet Rudolph

TITLE OF YOUR BOOK:

BOOK TITLE: DESPERATELY SEEKING PERSEPHONE: The true story of my Shamanic Journey through the Underworld.

AUTHOR OF BOOK: Janet Rudolph

AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS: Jandelion@aol.com 

AUTHOR'S FAVORITE LINKS: /mysticpagan.com/ /feminismandreligion.com/

 

 Yes, I have received permission from the reviewer to

reprint their review in its entirety. 

REVIEWER’S BYLINE: Elizabeth Cunningham is the author of numerous books

including My Life as a Prayer: A Multifaith Memoir and The Maeve Chronicles

5.0 out of 5 stars 

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2023 on Amazon

REVIEW:

DESPERATELY SEEKING, JOYFULLY BEING FOUND

Rudolph takes us with her on a journey that is at once deeply personal to her and

as well as mythic. In her story, interwoven with Persephone’s and Inanna’s, we may

recognize elements of our own, find inspiration and companionship for our own quest

and questions. Janet also reminds us that life is full of mysteries, time spirals

backward and forward; we not only seek but we are also found by human angels who

come into our lives when we most need them, and who are, in some way, always with

us. This beautiful, thoughtful, funny, poetic memoir gives the reader comfort and

inspires awe.

MORE ABOUT THE REVIEWER:  Elizabeth Cunningham has written numerous

other novels including The Return of the Goddess and The Wild Mother. She lives in

the valley of the Mahicantuck (the river that flows both ways) on unceded land that

was home to the Esopus Tribe of the Lenape. She is at work on a fairytale novel. For

more visit her website: https://elizabethcunninghamwrites.com/

ABOUT THE AUTHOR WHOSE BOOK IS BEING REVIEWED:  Janet

Rudolph is a wife, lover, mother, grandmother, seeker, finder, earth-breather, water-

swimmer, there is no end to her descriptions. She has traveled to many sacred places

in the world to soak up knowledge and experience culture. Along the way she earned

two shamanic initiations and written a few books including When Moses Was a

Shaman, and When Eve Was a Goddess.. She writes wherever and whenever she can

to express, heal, inform, challenge, startle and to expand love. She is a contributor and

co-weaver at /feminismandreligion.com/ You can visit her website for more

information at https://themysticpagan.com/

Links to All Lois W. Stern's Articles Posted Here - So No Need To Go Fishing

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by Lois W. Stern 

Your TheNewBookReview Review Acquisition Coordinator

Creator of Tales2Inspire®

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Writing, The New Yorker, and Christmas

This is a not-so-usual Christmas editorial from my SharingwithWriters newsletter. True to my time-saving advice to recycle (no one person--even one with a paid publicist) has enough time to do everything they want to!), it is never too late to download a pdf copy my newsletters from the archive at http://bit.ly/SWWNewsletter--or subscribe so you don't miss a single issue!

Dear SharingwithWriters subscribers and New Book Review readers, authors, and reviewers: 

I love The New Yorker. My son Trenton sent a subscription to me for Christmas for a couple years, but I told him not to do it anymore because I always felt guilty when I couldn’t read it from cover to cover.

Recently I reconnected with my cousin who had gone AWOL for a while and she sent me a link to a lovely essay on dying (and living!) in The New Yorker. It was written by a well-known memoirist, Cory Taylor. I love how that she wove the pleasures of writing into the other joys of her life. It made me think of the publisher who told my agent that he loved my memoir, but couldn’t publish it because it was just too sad. It also made me think of what I have come to think of as California’s Christmas fires. I have been affected only slightly (breathing smoke and getting less done because of time taken to help fire refugees), but the misery is everywhere. The sky, the freeways, the news.

It seems to me a memoir has no value without the sad parts that make us grateful for life’s delights. So, the upsides and downsides, the yin and yang of The New Yorker? Hard to believe there is too much of a good thing! And the fires? Well, maybe we have had enough of those!

You may already subscribe or decide to subscribe to The New Yorker after reading this. (You may be better at picking and choosing from an overabundance of readable material than I!) Even if The New Yorker has never been your cup of tea, you will want to read this essay. To absorb the author’s wisdom now, when gratitude is such a big part of the holiday season or take a lesson from this author’s writing style. I am sure that it will renew your appreciation of your chosen career.

The essay is “Questions for Me About Dying” by Cory Taylor. An interesting title, but one that in no way does justice to what is contained therein.

Happy writing, editing and promoting and happy holidays,

Carolyn Howard-Johnson,

http://HowToDoItFrugally.com 

PS: I know we think of Dec. 25 as a bit too late to be doing Christmas shopping, but that's why e-books were born.  The chapbook I wrote with Magdalena Ball is available today on Amazon and it's part of Amazon's Matchbook program for prime members--meaning the e-book is free when you buy the chapbook. Wouldn't one of your friends who loves literature like to have a e-greeting card of poetry in their e-mail box today? Here is more about it.  

Blooming Red:

Christmas Poetry for the Rational

Coauthored by Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball
Artwork by Vicki Thomas

Self-Published in the fine tradition of poets everywhere

Awards: USA Book News finalist, Silver Award from Military Writers’ Society of America

ISBN: 9781449948245

To order paperback or e-book on Amazon: http://bit.ly/BloomingRed

Celebration Series fan page on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/CelebrationSeriesPoetryChapbooks

Part of the Celebration Series by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, this little $6.95 book was written with passion and love for those who understand all the ramifications of the holiday that dominates celebrations throughout most of the English-speaking world. It is a lovely tuck-in gift that goes beyond the typical greeting card and is available in quantity discounts to use as a holiday greeting by contacting the authors at HoJoNews@aol.com.

MORE ABOUT THIS BLOG

 The New Book Review is blogged by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers. Of particular interest to readers of this blog is her most recent How to Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically (http://bit.ly/GreatBkReviews ) that covers 325 jam-packed pages covering everithing from Amazon vine to writing reviews for profit and promotion. 

This blog is a free service offered to those who want to encourage the reading of books they love. 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. Please see submission guidelines on the left of this page. Reviews and essays are indexed by genre, reviewer names, and review sites. 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.