Book fair season is upon us. We know that many authors would like to not only get the most exposure possible for their book, they also would like to save some money. This month only, our Global Book Tour package can do both. You can save 10% off the already reduced all-inclusive rate and get exposure for your book at four global events. That’s right – four.

What do you have to do? Simple – make a few clicks and enter the promotion code GBT10PCT when you check out to take advantage of your 10% savings. Really, that’s it. We’ll handle all of the details and even send you a comprehensive post-show summary with pictures and a review of happenings at the various fairs.

Here’s a video that shows you exactly what you can get with this package:

We literally take your book on tour around the world!

• 4 Different Countries
• 4 International Book Events (London, BEA, Beijing, and Frankfurt)
• 4 Months Throughout the Year
• Countless Opportunities

You can learn more about the Global Book Tour by visiting the following link: http;//outskirtspress.com/p/tourpackage.

Remember, until February 29, you can save an extra 10% off this package using promo code GBT10PCT.

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Whatever production & marketing options you choose, the first $300 worth are FREE if you start publishing right now! Just order your ultimate Diamond or full-color Pearl publishing package and enter the following promotion code during secure shopping cart check-out:

Promo code: MadMoneyFeb12

You can apply your $300 of “Mad Money” toward any optional production or marketing option we offer during the pre-production process. And with many of our optional services beginning at just $99, you can get quite a few!

And when you combine this promotion with the $400 of FREE upgrades already included with the Diamond package (standard press release distribution, Spring Arbor Christian distribution, streaming audio excerpt on your author webpage, cover photo from our image library) you’re looking at $700 worth of stuff!

February is the month to fulfill your New Year’s Resolutions AND to save money at the same time. Hurry! This promotion won’t last forever. Start publishing today.

• Win a free Barnes & Noble NOOK!
  Didn’t win the free Amazon Kindle in our 25 Days of Christmas drawing? No worries! We’re still going to hold a drawing for a free Barnes & Noble NOOK once we reach 5000 “likes” on our Facebook page. Need a NOOK edition of your book? Click here.
• Free publication in our exclusive Facebook Fandemonium Volume II
  Our 2nd annual Facebook Fandemonium anthology is coming. In January we will solicit submissions from our Facebook friends. This is your chance to be published for free in our next collection of fiction and poetry, and help a good cause at the same time (royalties benefit the American Red Cross). Check out Fandemonium Volume I by clicking here.
• Receive over $300 of free Amazon marketing options
  Historically, publishing a book is the #2 New Year’s Resolution among all people (losing weight is #1).  You’re on your own with #1, but we’ve helped thousands upon thousands of writers fulfill that #2 New Year’s Resolution.  Are you ready to fulfill yours? We can help you, too. And if you start publishing right now, you can get a head start on marketing with over $300 of Amazon book marketing options. Click here for all the details. 
• Free 2012 Book Marketing Calendar for our published authors
  When is the deadline for participating in the Book Expo of America? When is the deadline for submitting your book to the Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Awards?  What should you do to promote your book during Small Press Month? (When IS Small Press Month)?  These questions, and others, are answered in the 2012 Book Marketing Calendar, available for all published Outskirts Press authors. And you can get it free in January! Stay tuned for details.
• Win a free Apple iPad 2!
  Yes, you read that right. We’ll be announcing the exciting details of our Share the Love promotion in February. In the meantime, if you want to start off 2012 with a premium edition of your book on the iPad and available in the iBooks bookstore, click here. It couldn’t be simpler.

And that’s just in the first two months! Stay tuned to this blog or our Facebook page for further details on all these opportunities as we help our new and existing clients fulfill their New Year’s Resolutions for this exciting New Year.

Happy New Year, from Outskirts Press!

And here’s some great news even if you didn’t win. Since we got so close to the 5,000 fans needed to “unlock” the free Barnes & Noble NOOK drawing, we are going to keep the promotion going into the New Year. Once we reach 5,000 “likes” on our Outskirts Press Facebook page, we will hold the drawing for your chance to win a free Barnes & Noble NOOK. So stay connected, keep writing, keeping publishing, and keep promoting your book with the help of Outskirts Press!

In fact, 2012 is the best year ever to stay connected with Outskirts Press and stay friends with us on Facebook. In January we will announce your opportunity to get published for free in our next Facebook Anthology, Fandemonium Volume 2 — exclusively for our Facebook friends.

And in February, just in time for Valentine’s Day, comes our exciting “Share the Love” event and your chance to win a free Apple iPad 2! Stayed tuned for the details. You’re going to love it.

Speaking of Kindles, Nooks, and iPads, did you know Outskirts Press makes it easier than ever to publish your book on these 3 leading e-book devices? And it doesn’t matter where (or if) you have published. We take care of all the conversions, submissions, and details – and you keep 100% of the profits. It’s that simple!  Click on the links below for more details or to order now:

• Amazon Kindle Edition
• Barnes & Noble Nook Edition
• iPad/iPhone Premium Edition with iBooks Distribution

Season’s Greetings from Outskirts Press.
Our gift to you… $200 (or more)!

You can save 20% instantly when you start publishing with
the ultimate Diamond or full-color Pearl packages today.

Just enter this promotion code into your shopping cart when you order your Diamond or full-color Pearl package today:

Promo code: HOLIDAY2011

For all the promotion details and to get started, please click here.

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT & SUCCESS STORY

Carol A. Bender left a more lucrative profession in real estate to pursue a calling in human services. She has worked with abused and neglected children for more than ten years. The roles of teacher/student were often interchangeable. Carol hopes to empower children to think for themselves and use sound judgment. Carol followed her heart and now experiences more joy and wealth than she ever did before. Living in a rambling old farm house with her husband Eric, who she affectionately refers to as Captain Chaos, they are following their dreams of owning a bed & breakfast. Happy to have her grandchildren nearby and plenty of farm animals to keep her company, she shares her adventures, creative process, and much more on her blogs. http://carolbenderauthor.blogspot.com/

“I love having choices. Outskirts is all about options. I am very satisfied with my experience with Outskirts and what they are doing for writers everywhere. Outskirts gave me the opportunity to publish my picture book with confidence, in less than half the time it would have taken with a traditional publisher. It feels great knowing children are meeting my characters, Picky Peter and the pigs in 2011. Children can enjoy my story about making healthy choices, NOW. That makes me very happy.”

- Carol A. Bender, author of Picky Eater, That Peter

To experience publishing success like this, click here to meet your consultant.

Click here for all the details about how you can add $300 of upgrades and options to your publishing and marketing efforts when you start publishing today with Outskirts Press.

You spoke, we listened again!

Last month we also asked our author community what new
publishing option we should launch first, between these
three possibilities:

• Author Apps
• Amazon Featured Book-of-the-Week
• Social Media Market Research

The votes are in and Social Media Market Research
has been launched! This exclusive option, only available
for authors publishing with Outskirts Press, gives you the power to tap into our extensive, active community of writers, readers and industry professionals to ask them their opinions about your book (for instance, the cover design, or the book title). The votes and helpful comments you receive are available for you to see as they come in. There’s never been an affordable market research option like this for writers before.

It’s just another reason so many authors and professionals are choosing to publish and market all their books with Outskirts Press.

BONUS: With the current “Mad Money” promotion, you can get the Social Media Market Research option for FREE (plus other options, too!). Are you ready to start? Click here.

RECEIVE $300 IN OPTIONS AND UPGRADES WHEN YOU START PUBLISHING NOW

Start publishing with the ultimate Diamond or full-color Pearl packages today and you will receive $300 of “Mad Money,” good toward any production options or upgrades we offer.

What will you get with your $300 of extra spending “Mad Money” to improve your book? Here are some possibilities:

• professional custom cover design
• Amazon Kindle edition
• iPad/iPhone enhanced edition
• social media Market Research

With the Amazon Kindle edition, copyright registration, and Library of Congress Number costing $99 each, this
promo allows you to get all three for FREE, if those are the options you want.

Just enter this promotion code into your shopping cart when you order your Diamond or full-color Pearl package today:

Promo code: MADMONEYOCT11

For all the promotion details and to get started, please click here.

 
RECENTLY PUBLISHED DIAMOND BOOKS FROM OUTSKIRTS PRESS

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT AND SUCCESS STORY

Dr. Gwendolyn Jevita Cheatham graduated from Morris Brown College and began her teaching career in the Atlanta Public School System. After teaching for several years, she became the Instructional Coordinator of the Booker T. Washington High School Humanities Magnet Program. Pursuant to her interest in administration, she became an Assistant Principal. She received her Masters Degree in French from St. Louis University and another Masters Degree in Liberal Education from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She also graduated from Georgia State University with a Specialist Degree in Education Administration and Supervision, and earned her Doctorate Degree in Educational Leadership at Walden University, in Minneapolis. Harvard University selected Dr. Cheatham as one of the sixteen educators across the United States to receive a Grant for the study of Greek and Latin lyric. Her love of literature and zest for life inspired her to publish this extraordinary book.

“During the publication process of my book with Outskirts Press, I realized that I should have chosen Outskirts Press when I wrote my first book; however, I will certainly utilize this company again because of its professional staff and the excellent manner in which everyone, especially my author representative, interacted with me from the very first day until the day I held my book in my hand and pressed it to my heart.”

- Dr. Gwendolyn Jevita Cheatham, author of Big Mama

“Authors who select our July publishing package promotion can celebrate their own publishing independence with either of these two packages,” said Outskirts Press Vice President Kelly Schuknecht. “Not only do these packages offer the greatest profit margin of any publisher, they’ll be starting off with an extra two hundred dollars in their pocket from this special discount, as well.”

Both the Diamond and the Pearl packages offer paperback and hardcover editions. There is a wide array of trim size and paper type options with each package. Each Diamond and Pearlbook is assigned its own ISBN, price-embedded barcode and is given unlimited wholesale printing, fulfillment and distribution through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Ingram, Baker and Taylor, Bertram and others.

And, of course, all authors publishing with Outskirts Press keep 100% of their royalties, 100% of their rights, and 100% of the control.

“I have published four books with Outskirts Press Diamond Package,” says veteran author Andrew Rodriguez. “The company’s professional staff, impeccable ethics, top notch service and outstanding finished product have enabled me to fulfill a life’s dream: to become a successfully published author.”

The promotion code is JULY42011 and the deadline is July 5, 2011 when ordering the Diamond package at http://outskirtspress.com/p/diamond or the full-color Pearl package at http://outskirtspress.com/p/pearl.

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It’s easy! All you need to do is enter the valid promotion code below at the time of ordering your package in your shopping cart.

With the promotion code below, you receive the following additional options free with your Diamond, Pearl, or Ruby package:

• LCCN (Library of Congress Control Number)
• Espresso Book Machine edition
• Book Teaser Video
  

LCCN (Library of Congress Control Number) a $99 value! FREE! An essential pre-publication marketing option to ensure that author’s books are properly cataloged and distributed into the United States library system.

Espresso Book Machine Edition a $99 value!  FREE!  This innovative sales channel for books was established in 2007 and has been expanding ever since the number of its point-of-sale locations, typically bookstores, libraries and coffee shops.

Book Video Teaser a $99 value! FREE! Launch your viral video promotional efforts by uploading this 30 second high-def book teaser to YouTube, MySpace, Google Video and other video channels.

For all the promotion details, please click here.

This exciting promotion allows authors who start publishing their books with Outskirts Press in June to get a head start on their book promotion strategy with marketing options that will:

• enhance the availability of his or her book through libraries with the assignment of a LCCN
• jump start the distribution of his or her book with an Espresso Book Machine edition
• ride the video promotion wave with a fast and flashy book teaser video — for use on YouTube, MySpace and other social media.

 “By offering these three incentives to prompt authors to start publishing now, they have a better chance to reach the summer beach reading crowd,” said Outskirts Press Director of Author Services Wendy Stetina.  “The typical August vacationer is looking for new books to read.  Authors who begin publishing their books in early June can still place them in front of these beach readers — one of the better book buying audiences of the year — with these three free marketing tools we are currently offering for a limited time.”

The Library of Congress Control Number is an essential pre-publication marketing option to ensure that author’s books are properly cataloged and distributed into the United States library system.  A unique Library of Congress number is printed on the book’s copyright page and Outskirts Press submits the appropriate editions of the book to the Library of Congress.  One copy of the book goes to the Library of Congress offices in Capital Heights, Maryland, and the other is placed with their Cataloging in Publication Division in Washington, DC.

The innovative Espresso Book Machine sales channel for books was established in 2007 and has been expanding ever since the number of its point-of-sale locations, typically bookstores, libraries and coffee shops.  Outskirts Press takes care of all the details to make an author’s book available through these unique outlets.  Retail price and royalties match the author’s paperback edition.

The machine itself, billed as “The Invention of the Year” by Time magazine in 2007, is an ATM for book lovers.  Customers can have in their hands, immediately and inexpensively, a perfect bound, library quality book with a full color cover.

The final free-of-charge marketing tool offered by Outskirts Press in June is the production of a professional book teaser video to launch an author’s viral video promotional efforts.  The teasers are approximately thirty seconds long and are the perfect way to announce the publication of an author’s book on the internet by posting them on YouTube, MySpace, Google Video, MetaCafe and DailyMotion, to name just a few of the hundreds of web outlets available.

The teaser video is a professional grade .mp4 file delivered to the authors via e-mail for posting as often and as widely as possible.  Besides the multitude of social media channels, the author’s own Facebook and website pages are also ideal places to start book promotion with these eye catching videos that contain an image of the book cover, a photo of the author and promotional copy about the book that “teases” viewers into further inquiry or purchase.

Here’s an example of a book teaser for one of our author’s award-winning books:

Authors who start publishing with the Diamond, Ruby or full-color Pearl publishing services by June 15 will be given these three marketing options (each of them a $99 value) without charge if they enter the promotional code 3FREE2011 at the time of secure online payment.

Outskirts Press offers high-quality, full-service self-publishing and book marketing services for writers and professionals who are seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining 100% of their rights, 100% of their profits, and 100% of the creative control. www.outskirtspress.com.

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Are you ready to boost your book promotion strategy and assign your Publishing Consultant today?

Outskirts Press published authors have many special discounts available to them this month to help boost their efforts. Here’s a bit of information about the discounts:

1.)   Free Shipping Promotion — Through the end of May all currently published authors can get their books with NO SHIPPING COST. Now is the perfect time to stock up on books for your upcoming summer promotional efforts. If you don’t yet have anything planned you may consider contacting a Personal Marketing Assistant to come up with a solid action plan for this summer.

This is a limited time promotion, so don’t wait to stock up on additional authors copies!

2.)   25% off our NEW Kirkus Guaranteed Book Review option – This option allows you to get an unbiased and guaranteed review of your book from the book industry’s renown Kirkus book critics with the Kirkus Indie review service.

Requesting us to handle your Kirkus book submission normally costs $599. With the 25% savings (using promo code KIRKUS25), you will pay only $449.25. This savings is only available for authors who act during this limited time offer period. So don’t wait – act today to make sure you don’t miss out on this special summer savings.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This service is only available to Outskirts Press published Diamond or Pearl publishing package authors.

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Are you ready to take advantage of special author promotions like those listed above?