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| Our favourite animation for booklovers … |
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| Publish-Me! Promo Video |
Our new lead-in promotional video for Publish-Me! is now complete. |
| Help! How do I publish a school recipe book? |
We recently had a request for help on how to prepare a recipe book fundraiser of parents’ favourite recipes. So if you’ve found yourself on a book committee at your school, here are some tips we hope will help:
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| Advice for Writers |
This post from David Longfield, hopefully contains some useful tips about writing and remaining clear and motivated. Click here to go to David’s blog post. |
| NEW: Sales & Marketing Guide |
Publish-Me! offers authors a free Sales and Marketing Guide to get you started on the road to selling your book. If you would like a copy, please email us and we’ll be happy to send a PDF copy to you.
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| John Hanlon, author interview |
Listen to the interview with Publish-Me! author, John Hanlon about his new book Golf: A course in Life … |
| Golf: A Course in Life book trailer |
A great book for any golfer this Christmas, the book trailer for John Hanlon’s book is now on YouTube… |
| Censored Health book trailer |
View the Censored Health book trailer … |
| Selling the Red & Green |
Brad Ryder talks about how he sold his history of South Sydney Leagues’ Club. ‘They Wear The Red and Green was released in July 2009 and has sold 2,000 books in a little over 2 years. Strategies used in promoting it included a planned media exposure on talkback radio and the newspapers, then we set up my own Facebook page holding the book advising where the book can be bought. A big market is through the South Sydney Rabbitohs website where it is advertised online and the book also sponsors a player at the home games. This means that it gets advertised on the big scoreboard when the player scores. There is also word of mouth and I always have books in the boot of my car so they are on hand for an unexpected sale. It has become a small business for me. With the help of Publish-Me the book has been a success and I would recommend them to any prospective author.’ |
| Talking about selling your book… |
Robin Grille, author of ‘Parenting for a Peaceful World’, is a regular speaker in Australia and New Zealand about parenting and the psychology of parenting. We were talking about his success in sales recently and he commented how his presentations really do help: ‘Since my first book was first released in 2005, there have been a number of dips in sales. What has in every instance brought the book back to life – and is keeping sales bouncing along to this day – is the fact that I regularly speak publicly about themes related to my book. Public speaking gigs at libraries, schools, radio – wherever I go – seem to have a remarkable flow-on effect on book sales and it is clearly visible in sales reports. If the subject of your book lends itself to further public discussion, I thoroughly recommend this tool for prolonging the life of your treasured creation.’ One of the things we, at Publish-Me!, regularly advise authors is that, to make the most of their hard work, they should treat their books as a small business. Robin’s experience is a great example of this. So think about how you can link your book to your business to help keep sales kicking along. |
