SCBWI members at the "published and listed" (PAL) level — don't miss the chance to have one of your book titles included on the new "Summer Reading List" now being compiled by SCBWI International. If you missed the PAL member email with info, key tidbits include: You do this: - Assemble the following information: ONE... Continue Reading →
Graphic Arts Guild workshop on social media
The Graphic Artists Guild will present a workshop at noon on Wednesday, October 29, called "Social Media and Getting (a Little) Geeky with Your Self-Promotion." It'll be led by Steve Broback, about whom the Guild says, "Several years ago, Steve Broback showed us what blogging offered creatives in the realm of self-promotion. Between then and... Continue Reading →
The Author-Indie Bookstore Connection: Eric Luper Talks Promotion
Great post on Publisher's Weekly (thanks to Laurie for the link!). YA and MG author Eric Luper (Jeremy Bender and the Cupcake Cadets, HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, May 2011) is such an author, with a knack for coming up with creative ways to get out the word about his books. Eric shares about promotion (radio and... Continue Reading →
Book Publicizing Websites
Thanks to Stephanie Barden for sending this information! Stephanie was looking for ways and places to publicize her up-coming book, and she came across two terrific websites. The first is the Story Snoops website. It was started by a group of moms. They share children's book reviews from a parent's perspective. They have a fun... Continue Reading →
To promote, or not to promote?
Shrinking Violet Promotions recently ran an interesting guest post/rant about authors using social media outlets for book promotion. According to author Sarah Prineas... Ideally, I think, social sites are for friendly conversation and debate, for sharing good news and bad news, for meeting new friends, for posting amusingly captioned cat pictures. The community we’re building is... Continue Reading →