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TexasLargeTexas Book Marketing Handbook

The Ultimate Guide to Selling Books in Texas 

Packed with practical advice and resources for Texas authors and publishers and anyone who wants to sell books in Texas, this indispensable guide includes: 

  • Strategies for marketing to libraries and bookstores
  • Suggestions for selling to the specialty retail market
  • Tips for selling books at book fairs and festivals
  • Advice for getting publicity in print and broadcast media
  • Ideas for earning money with speaking engagements

You'll also get contact information for:
  • 150 largest public libraries in Texas
  • 123 largest academic libraries in Texas
  • 195 chain bookstore locations in Texas
  • 53 independent bookstores in Texas
  • 16 Texas-themed gift shops
  • 25 book fairs in Texas
  • 63 daily newspapers in Texas
  • 13 alternative papers in Texas
  • 31 magazines with a Texas theme
  • 69 radio stations and Texas-focused radio talk shows
  • 83 television stations in Texas

This ebook includes hundreds of clickable hyperlinks and you can even copy and paste the contact information for your own personal use.

To see a sample of the Texas Book Marketing Handbook, download a free excerpt with sample pages from each chapter.

This ebook is available for immediate download in PDF format for $29.

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What Others Are Saying

"Authors can literally cut years off the marketing learning curve by using the information found in the Texas Book Marketing Handbook. It should be required for every author's marketing toolbox. If there is a place to market or sell your book in Texas, you will find it in here."

—Tweed Scott, speaker and multiple award-winning author of Texas in Her Own Words

"Dana Lynn Smith has given Texan authors a resource that makes the sales and marketing of their books so easy. The Texas Book Marketing Handbook  isn’t just a directory of valuable contact information, it’s also liberally sprinkled with marketing tips throughout. Each chapter alone is worth the price of the book."

—Tony Eldridge, author of The Samson Effect and the Marketing Tips for Authors blog

"The Texas Book Marketing Handbook is meant especially for Texans, but it will give authors and publishers everywhere a boost to their marketing efforts and help them sell into the large Texas market.

—Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multiple award-winning HowToDoItFrugally.com series of books for writers and retailers

"A fantastic, indispensable resource! I am amazed at the work that must have gone into this book."

 —Penny C. Sansevieri, author and CEO of Author Marketing Experts, Inc.

About the Author

Dana Lynn Smith, the Book Marketing Maven, specializes in developing marketing plans for nonfiction books. She has a degree in marketing and 15 years of experience in publishing and marketing books. In her 13 years at Hoover's Business Press, she sold millions of dollars worth of books to libraries.

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