Book Marketing Roundup

Authors and publishers, I hope your new year is off to a great start! If you haven't already done so, I encourage you to develop or update your book marketing plan and schedule promotional activities for this year. To learn more about how to create your book marketing plan, download my free report: Create a Book Marketing Plan That Sells Books.

Also check out my new training programs for authors:

How to Promote Your Novel, featuring Joanna Penn, will be presented as a webinar on February 9.

Make Money with Teleseminars and Webinars is now available as a video training program.

If you are a Kindle author and you're considering signing up for the new KDP Select program, read this article first to learn more.

Here are some more book marketing tools and resources for you:

• 89 Book Marketing Ideas That Will Change Your Life – article on the Author Media blog.

• If you have a WordPress blog, be sure to download this free report from MaAnna Stephenson at Blog Aid: How to Back Up Your WordPress Site.

• Paul Krupin at Direct Contact PR is offering a free book publicity planning calendar for 2012.

• Learn more about making money with affiliate programs in this article by Pat Flynn: Top 30 Tips for Successful Affiliate Marketing

That's all the news for now. For more book marketing advice and resources, be sure to subscribe to this blog so you don't miss any posts and sign up for my book marketing newsletter.

Comments

[Pat]

Hi Dana!

Just wanted to stop by and say thanks for linking to my affiliate marketing article. Much appreciated!

Cheers, and all the best to you!

[MaAnna]

Dana, thanks for sharing my backup report!

[Tim Hargis]

Dana,

Thanks a lot for the list of publishing resources. It was good to review before going over the marketing plan for the year.

[Dana Lynn Smith]

Tim, I'm so glad you found this helpful. I wish you much success with your books!

[Nicole Gamble]

What a great read! I appreciate that you taking the time to write this article , it has valuable information.

[Brian Robertson]

Hi Dana
I just read your article about authors and reading. I know what the person means who said she didn't like to read books. I have just written a biography of a Prisoner of War of the Japanese. I had so much reading to do in connection with researching for my book that I never had time to read a book cover to cover just for pleasure. My reading for research was more of a necessary chore rather than a pleasure. If i were now to write a book in some other genre, which I probably will then it might be completely different, But I don't know yet!
Love your emails!
Brian Robertson

[Dana Lynn Smith]

Brian, thanks for your note and your kind words about my book marketing newsletter. I suspect that some nonfiction authors don't read as much as novelists do. I do think it's important for novelists to read books in the same genre that they write in.