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Easter & National Poetry Month Greeting Cards for Self-Publishing Authors
| Easter is April 4th, 2010 and April is National Poetry Month. Want to send out an Easter or National Poetry Month mailing to promote your book? Outskirts Press now offers personal and customized Easter and National Poetry Month Greeting Cards, featuring your published book!
Greeting cards are 4.25”x 6” on Premium 14 pt. gloss cover stock. These cards are full color, front and back, and scored for easy folding. The front of the card recognizes the occasion. The inside-left of the card highlights your single book, along with the title, the author name, the cover image, and the webpage address. The inside-right of the card is blank so that you can personalize each card with a handwritten message before folding and mailing them in the included white envelopes. Greeting cards come in quantities of 250. Outskirts Press authors can also order Custom US First Class Postal Stamps to send out these promotional mailings. Both of these optional marketing products can easily and conveniently be added from the Marketing Options screen of their author’s center. *Production, printing and shipping can take up to 3-4 weeks. Order now to allow plenty of time to receive your cards for a timely holiday promotional mailing. |
 ** The interior image in the example features “Sell Your Book on Amazon.” Details and cover image will be replaced by the details and cover image for your book. |
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Self Publishing Book Spotlight: The Dung Beetle Manager
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Scott Dunlap’s The Dung Beetle Manager, published by Outskirts Press, uses the world of dung beetles to entertain its readers with a view of the office which will forever change the way they look at the American workforce. Scott’s “Brown” Management Model is a cleverly conceived, amusing metaphor for the workplace which also offers up far more grains of truth than might be expected from the world of dung. |
| A veteran of a distinguished 24 year career in civil service and a holder of degrees in Applied Economics and Business Administration, Scott Dunlap was contemplating the immense amount of corporate, executive and political bull that is left around the workplace when he remembered his upbringing in farm country in Walnut Ridge Arkansas and his childhood observation of a solitary dung beetle making its way out of a cow patty. “The perfect metaphor for the dynamics of corporate and public sector America and the modern workforce” he realized.So was born this entertaining look at the executives, the managers and the workers among the ranks of the 150 million men and women who currently make up the American workforce. The more Scott explored the metaphor of work as a landscape littered with dung populated by a myriad of dung beetles, the more apt he realized it was. The Dung Beetle Manager and his “Brown” Management Model is the culmination of the funny, yet insightful conclusions he has drawn from his experience and applying the tools of those masterfully efficient cleaners.
Scott explores the tasks and tribulations of executives, managers and workers, but his management model is particularly designed for managers to master the essential rules of dung, recognizing the many different types of dung strewn about the workplace, sometimes carelessly, sometimes intentionally, and, finally, understanding the nature of dung beetles themselves. With these newly acquired “Brown” Management skills, Scott suggests that any competent dung beetle manager will be able to clean up and cope with the widespread managerial mess of corporate and public sector dung that is heaped on the workforce every day, or, at least have a good laugh while trying to work through it. For any members of the corporate or public sector world frustrated by the way things work and do not work, The Dung Beetle Manager should provide a refreshingly entertaining and rewarding look at their workday world |
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About the Author:
Scott W. Dunlap is a native of Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. He holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Economics from the University of Central Florida and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Columbia College. His distinguished 24 year career in civil service resulted in many innovations and improvements in training, education and information technology programs for the U. S. Navy. He and his wife, Robin, currently live in central Florida. For more information or to contact the author, please visit www.outskirtspress.com/thedungbeetlemanager.  |
This author purchased the Book Blast, 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 author’s center.
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Personal Marketing Assistance for Self-Publishing Authors
| Successfully marketing a book can be a lot of work. A Personal Marketing Assistant is ideal for authors who want marketing assistance that is personal and specific. The Outskirts Press Personal Marketing Assistant is available to work with authors to promote your book in accordance with your plan and goals.The Personal Marketing Assistant will correspond with you to arrive upon a marketing action plan. You will agree upon the specific tactics that will be taken which may include things like soliciting book reviews, contacting local bookstores, completing the verbiage on an author’s webpage, improving your Amazon tactics, or any number of tasks.
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Melanie Solomon is the author of an Amazon bestseller, AA Not The Only Way– Your One Stop Resource Guide To 12-Step Alternatives. As a writer and lecturer, Melanie Solomon has taught at the Huntington Beach School District’s Drug and Alcohol Program and has spoken at The Learning Annex in California. She graduated with honors from the University of Michigan.
Testimonial from John Young, author of Kill Dress: |
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As a brand spanking new author, my first novel (Kill Dress) was very successful due to the exceptional efforts of Outskirts Press and my Personal Marketing Assistant, Melanie. It has been an awesome journey in terms of writing a novel. I had no idea what being an author entailed. However, my hand was held all along the way by Outskirts Press and my Personal Marketing Assistant. Melanie has been invaluable to me. She patiently explained the marketing process and included me on tons of social sites where I can access and promote my novel. The services offered by Outskirts Press are second to none. I have already started the sequel to Kill Dress, and you can be sure that I will be requesting my outstanding Personal Marketing Assistant again! Outskirts Press rocks!!! |
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The Personal Marketing Assistant is available as an a-la-carte option or as part of the Book Blast package where authors can save 25% on 5 powerful marketing services to blast their book into the stratosphere! Outskirts Press authors can easily and conveniently add the Personal Marketing Assistant option or the Book Blast package at any time from the Marketing Options screen of the author’s center. Outskirts Press has a team of Personal Marketing Assistants ready to help you in your book promotion efforts today! |
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Leading Self-Publishing Company Makes a Case For Previously Published Authors
Outskirts Press, an Inc. 500 self-publishing company, invites new and established authors to “fall in love with publishing again” this February with a new promotion.
February 2, 2010. Denver, Colorado – Outskirts Press, an Inc. 500 company and the fastest-growing self-publishing and book marketing company, today invites new and previously-published authors to “fall in love with publishing all over again.” A special February promotion offering twice as many free author’s copies on select publishing packages seals the deal with a kiss.
“It is difficult being a writer today and having so many choices,” concedes Outskirts Press CEO Brent Sampson. “Authors who may have published previously are sometimes disillusioned about their experience. And authors who are still considering their options are often struck with a form of ‘paralysis’ out of fear of making the ‘wrong choice.’ This February, we want all authors to fall in love with publishing, like so many of our authors have.”
Authors who have previously published may experience an array of improvements when republishing their book(s) with Outskirts Press. Depending upon the previous publisher, these new benefits may include:
- Authors keep 100% of their rights
- Authors keep 100% of their author royalties
- Authors receive below-wholesale pricing on their own books
- Authors receive Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, and Ingram availability all at the same price
- Authors can receive Marketing COACH assistance for up to two years following publication
For authors with a manuscript to publish (or republish) in February, the choice becomes easier with the announcement of the “Fall in Love in February” publishing promotion. Authors who assign their Outskirts Press production team to help them with their book in February will receive twice as many free author’s copies of their book upon publication. The necessary promotion code is: LOVEx2
”With so many choices, it is too easy to make no choice at all,” continues Sampson. “But if you’re a writer and want be published, the only truly wrong choice is doing nothing. As Wayne Gretzky said, ‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’”
Visit http://outskirtspress.com/monthly_promotion.html for all the promotion details and to hear from a successfully published author.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.:
Outskirts Press, Inc., an Inc. 500 company, offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for writers, entrepreneurs and other 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 royalties, and 100% of the creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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Indie Book Awards for Self-Publishing Authors
The Next Generation Indie Book Awards submission service through Outskirts Press is open for any English-language book with a copyright date of 2009.
When ordering this submission service through your author’s center, we will handle all the details, including form completion, applicable entry fee, all requisite copies of your book, etc. We will choose the most applicable category for entry from among the 60 choices available (listed at the bottom of this posting).
Outskirts Press published authors can order this award submission service conveniently from the author’s center by choosing the Indie Book Awards Full Submission Service from the Marketing Options screen.
Hurry! The deadline for order is February 12. Remember, your book must have a 2009 copyright date and be in English to be eligible.
Awards given to the Finalists and Winners of the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards are:
- $1,500 Cash Prize and trophy awarded to the best Fiction Book
- $1,500 Cash Prize and trophy awarded to the best Non-Fiction Book
- $750 Cash Prize and trophy awarded to the second best Fiction Book
- $750 Cash Prize and trophy awarded to the second best Non-Fiction Book
- $500 Cash Prize and trophy awarded to the third best Fiction Book
- $500 Cash Prize and trophy awarded to the third best Non-Fiction Book
- $250 Cash Prize and trophy awarded to the Best Cover Design Book entry
- $100 Cash Prize (NEW THIS YEAR!) and a Gold Medal awarded to the winner of each of the 60 categories
- Finalist Medals will be awarded to up to three finalists in each of the 60 categories
Finalists and Winners will also receive:
- A listing in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Catalog which will be distributed to book buyers, media, and others!
- Exposure for a full year as a Winner or Finalist at www.IndieBookAwards.com. View a list of 2009 Winners and Finalists.
- The opportunity to display Finalist or Winner gold award stickers on your book.
- Other benefits of an award-winning book (such as potential increased revenue).
PLUS, the top 60 books will be reviewed by New York literary agent Marilyn Allen of Allen O’Shea Literary Agency or one of Ms. Allen’s co-agents for possible representation in areas such as distribution, foreign rights, film rights, and other rights (unless an entrant prefers not to have the book forwarded to an agent). Ms. Allen has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience, including serving as Senior Vice President, Associate Publisher, and Director of Marketing for Harper Collins and directing sales and marketing teams for Simon & Schuster, Penguin Books and Avon Books. Ms. Allen has had the pleasure of working with many best-selling authors including Stephen King, Ken Follett, Barbara Kingsolver, John Gray, Mary Higgins Clark, and many more.
All Finalists and Winners for the 2010 Indie Book Awards will be selected and notified in May.
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Categories for the 2010 Indie Book Awards
- Action/Adventure
- Animals/Pets
- Anthology
- Autobiography
- Biography
- Business
- Career
- Children’s/Juvenile Fiction
- Children’s/Juvenile Non-Fiction
- Children’s Picture Book
- Coffee Table Book/Photography
- Cookbook and Home/Garden
- Current Events
- Diet/Nutrition/Food
- Education/Academic
- Fantasy
- Finance
- First Novel (under 80,000 words)
- First Novel (over 80,000 words)
- GLBT (Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender)
- General Fiction/Novel
- General Non-Fiction
- Health/Wellness
- Historical Fiction
- Historical Non-Fiction
- How To/Crafts/Hobbies
- Humor/Comedy
- Inspirational
- Memoirs
- Motivational
- Multicultural Fiction
- Multicultural Non-Fiction
- Mystery
- New Age
- Novella
- Parenting/Family
- Poetry
- Regional Fiction
- Regional Non-Fiction
- Relationships
- Religious Non-Fiction
- Religious Fiction
- Romance
- Science/Nature/Environment
- Science Fiction
- Self Help
- Short Story – Fiction
- Social Change
- Spirituality
- Suspense/Thriller
- Travel/Travel Guide
- Women’s Issues
- Writing and Publishing
- Young Adult Fiction
- Young Adult Non-Fiction
Additional Categories
- Best Cover Design – Fiction
- Best Cover Design – Non-Fiction
- Best Overall Design
E-book Categories
- E-book – Fiction
- E-book – Non-Fiction
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