Book clubs are an author’s dream come true. With book clubs, you have readers who read your book individually and get together, as a group, to discuss it. This means more than one person is going to buy your book at the same time. You can encourage this behavior by reaching out to book clubs. There are both online and offline book clubs, and creating a marketing plan with them … [Read more...]
Jewish Book Fairs & Festivals Authors Can Attend in 2015
If you are a Jewish author or specialize in writing about Jewish issues, you should consider visiting book fairs in the Jewish community. Book fairs are excellent places for authors to interact with the public as well as network with book industry leaders, publicists and book editors. Book festivals and fairs are held year round all over the United States. As a book … [Read more...]
Make it Easy for Book Clubs to Discuss Your Book
You're a book author and you want to promote your book. You have a website where you have downloads of your first chapter or chapters. Have you also made available discussion questions for book clubs to use? Book groups can be a good target market for your book, especially if it's fiction. But given how busy people are, it's helpful for readers to know that if they … [Read more...]
Cindy Hudson – Author Interview
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. My book is called Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs (Seal Press October 2009) Tell us something about yourself. I grew up in a small town in Louisiana called Brusly. It's near Baton Rouge. I love my adopted state of Oregon, and I like that I can be at the mountains or the … [Read more...]