From the comfort and convenience of your own home (or office) learn how to effectively use Social Media sites like YouTube, FaceBook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to attract book sales, business and media attention in this thirty minute webinar.
Attendees will walk away from this LIVE online webinar session with:
Knowledge about how to use YouTube as a sales driver
Knowledge about how to get the most out of your blog presence & efforts
Best practices of successful Social Media users
MARK YOUR CALENDARS. This live FREE 30 minute Webinar takes place on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 1pm Eastern Time. If you register today you will have a couple of days after the event to watch it again (or see it for the first time if you are unable to attend the live event).
The May Triple Treat for Diamond and Peal package authors includes a free Book Video Teaser that authors can upload to their YouTube accounts, a free Library of Congress Control Number to give readers access to new books throughout the United States library system, and a free Espresso Book Machine® edition to make their hardcopy book available at Espresso printing machines in universities and libraries across the planet.
The Book Video Teaser is a fast, flashy way to announce the publication of an author’s book on all the most popular Internet video and networking sites. Outskirts Press produces a professional quality, thirty second long video that features the book title, the author byline, the cover, a photo of the author, the retail price — all dramatically displayed to the accompaniment of background music.
The author is provided with an .mp4 Book Video Teaser file that the author can easily use to launch the book’s viral video promotion. Some of the most popular video sharing sites that authors use today to announce their book’s publication are YouTube, Myspace, Metacafe, Daily Motion, Live Video and Viddler.
The Library of Congress Control Number helps facilitate the distribution of a new title through the entire United States’ library system. Outskirts Press will take care of all the administrative paperwork and acquire the number for the author, print it on the book’s copyright page in the standard format and submit the required number of copies of the book to the Library of Congress offices after publication. The Library of Congress is a broad distribution channel available for new books which is frequently overlooked by first time authors.
The third “treat” in Outskirts Press’ May promotion is an Espresso Book Machine® edition. Billed by Time Magazine as the “invention of the year,” the Espresso Book Machine® is a revolutionary automated book-making machine that provides an immediate and direct-to-consumer distribution channel. A consumer walks up to the machine, selects a title to print and presses a button. Within a few minutes a full color cover, perfect bound edition of the book, indistinguishable from the publisher’s version, is delivered right into the reader’s hands.
These literary ATM machines have been set up in select universities and libraries in this country and abroad and provide convenient and immediate world wide distribution for an author’s work. Espresso Book Machines® are in the New York Public Library, the University of Michigan library, the World Bank InfoShop in Washington, DC, the London Newsstand, UK, and the Melbourne, Australia, Angus and Robertson Bookstore, just to name a few of the current locations.
Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Mark S. Foster’s A Life of Courage and Love.
In her latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Mark S. Foster, tells the remarkable story of a woman who agreed to be an “experiment” as an early kidney transplant recipient and went on to become the world’s longest living diabetic kidney transplant survivor, all the while working tirelessly to provide hope to other kidney transplant patients and to the blind.
Marcia Lortscher’s early years showed no signs of the exceptional life she was eventually destined to live. She was born and raised in a comfortable, conservative middle class Catholic family in Denver and she finished college before the 1970’s feminist revolution. She then explored several different career paths before marrying in her late twenties.
Then fate intervened. Marcia had been diagnosed a diabetic at age ten, but just after she married, her kidneys failed. She had been looking forward to settling comfortably into a conventional housewife’s role, but instead doctors suddenly began measuring her life expectancy in weeks. So serious was her condition that her doctors initially demurred at performing a kidney transplant.
She was finally accepted for the operation as an “experiment” and she ultimately became the longest living diabetic kidney transplant patient, surviving for thirty-six years.
Marcia experienced an endless array of harrowing medical problems and she went blind in her early forties, but she devoted her life to serving others through volunteerism. She and her husband had no biological children of their own, but they became surrogate parents to well over a hundred young people whom they called their “kids.” Marcia’s continuing work on behalf of other social service groups eventually brought her widespread recognition as one of the nation’s most valued volunteers.
Although this exceptional woman was uncomfortable with being singled out for praise and disliked being called an “inspiration,” readers of A Life of Courage and Love may decide that that label is, in fact, totally appropriate.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark S. Foster is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he taught for 33 years. He was named both teacher of the year and researcher of the year and has published eleven books previously, including works on urban transportation, city planning and the automobile culture in the United States; five biographies, including Henry J. Kaiser, Carl G. Fisher and Quigg Newton; and works on the history of baseball.
This author purchased the Book Blast package, saving 25% on 5 powerful marketing services to blast the book into the stratosphere! The Book Blast package includes the following options: Custom Press Release, PR Publicist Campaign, Book Review Submission Service, Book Video (shown above) and Personal Marketing Assistant. Outskirts Press authors can easily and conveniently add this package at any time from the Marketing Options screen of the Publishing Center.
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Outskirts Press, the fastest-growing full-service self-publishing and book marketing company, today announced its top ten best-selling titles for March 2012 according to combined data from Ingram Book Wholesalers and Outskirts Press Direct via http://outskirtspress.com/bookstore. These authors have likely created a solid book promotion strategy and put it into motion either by themselves or with the help of a Personal Marketing Assistant.
In alphabetical order, the top ten best-selling books in self publishing during the month of March 2012 were:
Congratulations to our best-selling authors for the month of March 2012!
How can you get your book on the bestseller list? While we can’t make any guarantees on sales success, many of our most successful authors invest time and money in marketing themselves and their book. Authors who are needing a bit of a marketing boost often turn to a Personal Marketing Assistant for help.
All of these books (and other Outskirts Press titles) are available from all major online retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powells, Books A Million, and others, plus conveniently from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at http://outskirtspress.com/bookstore for discounts ranging from 10% – 55%.
Are you ready to put a book promotion strategy in place for your self-published book?
Are you looking to gain notoriety as a successful self-published author? The best path to success in writing is to become an award-winning author. With our Readers Favorite Book Award Submission, you have an opportunity to not only gain that notoriety but also receive additional free targeted book marketing services/promotion. If your book has a copyright of 2011 or 2012, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity you don’t want to miss!
So what do you get when you win? In addition to the ability to promote your work as an “award-winning” book, you get critical exposure on both the Readers Favorite and Outskirts Press award channels — in addition to the following:
Award-Winning Author Recognition – Each winner/finalist will be able to promote themselves and their book as an award-winning author and award-winning book, respectively. We make it easy by offering authors many options for to enhance their book covers and online presence upon winning an award.
Is your book an award-winning book?
Medal Award Ceremony and Media Coverage – Winners and finalists are invited to the Readers Favorite Medal Award Ceremony during the week of the Miami Book Fair International, the largest book fair in the nation. The street fair will feature hundreds of booths manned by authors, publishers and other literary professionals. Readers Favorite will have a full booth all three days of the street fair where they will display all the winning books from to hundreds of thousands of visitors. Authors who are able to attend the event may bring books for sale at the booth.
Book Review and Critique – All entrants receive a complete book review which will be posted on the Readers Favorite website, Barnes & Noble, Google Books and Facebook (unless your book has already been reviewed by the Readers Favorite team).
Display of your Book Cover, Summary and Award Image on Readers Favorite Website – Winners and finalists will be featured on Contest Results Page via a link under the search box at the top left of every page on the Readers Favorite website.
Professional, High Distribution Press Release – Both Readers Favorite and Outskirts Press announce the results of the competition through premium press releases and blog posts sent to a variety of media contacts and other authors.
The best (and easiest) part is: we can handle all of the submission details for you, including: sending a copy of your book to the judges, paying your award submission fee, and completing the entry forms for you (for two categories). This all comes with our Readers Favorite Book Awards Submission option.
Click here for details or to reserve your spot now. Don’t wait – the deadline for consideration for this year’s award program is Friday, April 27, 2012.
Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Michael L. Watson’s A Glimpse Into the Inner Workings of My God.
In his latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Michael L. Watson, shows how the outdated and counter-productive dogma of today’s organized religions discriminates against all non-believers and against any believers who tend to be different and often overlooks the importance of women in God’s universe.
Today the media embellishes the thoughts of scientific geniuses such as Stephen Hawking and Craig Venter in their rush to heighten their celebrity status, but by doing so they lower the value that God plays in the sanity of this universe. For those struggling to find some moral conscience in a world full of economic and political unrest and natural disasters, organized religions no longer provide the spiritual and pragmatic support to parishioners made uncertain by this endless assault of “bad news.”
Believers and non-believers alike want to know why the endless strife of the world creates more pain and suffering than does transitory spiritual joy. They want to know if God created evolution or if evolution created God and they want to know if there is any other reason than blind faith to believe in an afterlife.
In A Glimpse into the Inner Workings of My God Watson chronicles his thirty year spiritual journey overcoming challenges to his health and to his human frailty and offers his readers a new understanding of a personal relationship with God that will bring them an inner peace in this world at war with itself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Michael L. Watson is an inspirational author whose life has been nothing short of exceptional. Michael was raised by a divorced, always working, tough-loving mom who placed God first in their tiny, cramped apartment and put Michael through disciplined parochial education. Following in God’s ordered steps, Michael weathered more than his share of life’s endless struggles. For almost 30 years, with a “thy will be done” attitude, he overcame such life threatening health challenges as uncontrollable hemorrhaging, Tuberculosis, and Stage IV Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. With a Bachelors Degree in Health Care Administration, this proud father of seven college-educated children spent over 50 years experiencing life to perfect his reality-based personal relationship with God.
This author purchased the Book Blast package, saving 25% on 5 powerful marketing services to blast the book into the stratosphere! The Book Blast package includes the following options: Custom Press Release, PR Publicist Campaign, Book Review Submission Service, Book Video (shown above) and Personal Marketing Assistant. Outskirts Press authors can easily and conveniently add this package at any time from the Marketing Options screen of the Publishing Center.
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Well-written marketing copy is vital to capturing the imaginations of prospective readers. However, writing to appeal to calculating, non-human search engines is more complex than putting together frilly words artistically. Search engines don’t react emotionally to riveting copy; they discover relevant content based on complex algorithms.
Amazon Listing Optimization tailors the Amazon sales page to appeal to both Internet search engines and the additional readers who are subsequently directed to the optimized Amazon sales page.
The Outskirts Press staff spends a great deal of time around books and understands what entices readers to buy. Additionally, the staff of professional marketers is knowledgeable about how to use search engine optimization (SEO) – a technique that flummoxes even the best authors – to attract more readers to the appropriate sales page. With Amazon Listing Optimization authors receive:
1. Professionally written and carefully worded marketing language.
2. Verbiage that entices readers to buy.
3. Researched keywords that perform well in search engine results pages.
4. Search engine optimized copy that increases the odds a book will turn up when appropriate potential buyers conduct a search.
5. Better selling odds with no additional effort.
Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Alexander Flint’s Highway Odyssey.
In his latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Alexander Flint, reinforces for readers what really matters in life and how important it is to tell the ones we love how much they mean to us.
Flint’s first trip was in 1978 when he and his seven year old his son set out in their customized van to drive from New York to Colorado with their eyes set on the adventures of the road. Little did either know that that first summer trip would start a twenty year tradition that would make Flint’s son eligible for setting a Guinness world record. Nor did they realize how close these treks would bring them to each other.
Highway Odyssey tells of treacherous moments, such as when father and son backpacked across the snowfields of the Grand Tetons and had to climb over a closed mountain pass to reach Hurricane Pass and then descend down into the Alaska Basin. It also reveals moments of candid introspection and consequent revelation, such as the trip that should have been merely a short visit with old friends, but turned instead into an unexpected increase in understanding by the author of his role and his responsibility as a single parent still struggling with the failure of his marriage.
Flint’s tale is far more than a fascinating travelogue of the western United States, although it is that, too. It also reveals the healing power of travel itself as well as the unyielding strength of family bonds forged on the road.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Alexander Flint is a native New Yorker and retired New York City high school teacher. He is also a retired military officer, having served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. His previous books are The Frozen Dozen (Rutledge Books, 2002) and Stress Survival (Xlibris, 2006). Flint edited his father’s memoirs, The Way It Was: From Second Avenue to Staten Island (Xlibris, 2005). The father of five children and six grandchildren, Flint lives on Staten Island, New York, and Hollywood Beach, Florida.
This author purchased the Book Blast package, saving 25% on 5 powerful marketing services to blast the book into the stratosphere! The Book Blast package includes the following options: Custom Press Release, PR Publicist Campaign, Book Review Submission Service, Book Video (shown above) and Personal Marketing Assistant. Outskirts Press authors can easily and conveniently add this package at any time from the Marketing Options screen of the Publishing Center.
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