 Tips
and Resources On Promoting Your Book
Web sites for writers, usability resources, radio promotions, book and
web promotion tips, in-store placement, and more.
 Barnes
and Noble In-Store Book Submission
If you would like your title to be considered for store placement, please
submit a finished copy (no manuscripts please) of the book along with
marketing and promotion plans, trade reviews and a note describing how
the book meets the competition (what makes it unique) to:
The Small Press Department
Barnes & Noble
122 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10011
The information must include the ISBN and the suggested retail price.
The review process takes about 6 weeks, the Small Press Department responds
to all submissions in writing.
Book
Sales
Book Lovers Bookstore accepts published works on consignment until a
track record is established, at that point they will buy the book wholesale
price at forty percent. For more information please visit http://www.bookloverscafe.com.
Writer’s Proofreading and Literary Submissions Services
Writer’s Relief provides proofreading and literary submission services for poets, novelists, children’s book and short story writers. http://www.writersrelief.com
Book
Talk Radio
Book Talk Radio is currently looking for authors to interview on their
radio talk show - If you are interested, please submit your book synopsis,
author bio and contact information to RadioTalkers@aol.com.
Captive
Additions
Captive Additions is a company that provides valuable radio media interviews
for those who have books/products/message/service to promote. For more
information visit the Captive
Additions website, or contact Captive Additons via e-mail.
Online
Review
The Online Review accepts all self-published books in any format for
review. To submit your book, click
here.
GetBookReviews.com
You Can Get Your Book Reviewed Within 2 weeks.
You can exhibit and showcase your book at Book Expo America and other
book tradeshows.
You can advertise your book in Foreword Magazine which reaches over 20,000
book buyers with every issue.
We also offer
** Rapid Reviews of books
** Guaranteed press release distribution & placement
** Media databases ** Special price only $99 until the end of March
** and much, much more.
Reviewers can also request copies of your book for review directly from
our website.
Check out our site for more information about us and our services. www.GetBookReviews.com
Reader
Views
Book reviews, for readers, by readers. http://www.readerviews.com
Kaye
Trout's Book Reviews
"I review Print-On-Demand (POD) and small press published books
for my site and Midwest Book Review. If you would like your book reviewed,
please send a signed copy to: Kaye Trout, 65 Starbright Court, Pagosa
Springs, CO 81147. If you would like to receive my monthly review newsletter,
please provide your email address. There are no charges for these services."
Please visit http://kayetrout.blogspot.com
for more information.
Talk-N-Books
Authors, publishers and publicists interested in promoting
books can contact Janet Coleman at TalkNBooks@aol.com.
Author Bios and book summaries can be submitted at TalkNBooks@aol.com.
Artists
First
AUTHORS WANTED!
To help independent authors worldwide, ArtistFirst World Radio is offering
a new show series exclusively about independent and undiscovered authors,
entitled Authors-First - WEEKNIGHTS @ 8PM EST.
Anyone on-line can tune-in on their PC, anywhere in the world by clicking:
http://stream.netro.ca/afrn
or logging on to www.artistfirst.com
and clicking a "Click here to listen" button.
To find out how to submit your materials, click
here.
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 Online
communities and information
Midwest
Book Review
Established in 1976, the Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers
committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing.
MBR accepts no financial donations from authors or publishers for their
services and features an excellent online book review publication that
showcases reviews and commentaries of those Midwest Book Review editors
and specialized reviewers who have demonstrated expertise and mastery
of their particular fields, responsibilities, and interests.
Books
and Tales
“ A virtual potpourri of information about print-on-demand publishing,
web design and other useful information for the writer," Books
and Tales is the brainchild of author Clea Saal, who somehow finds the
time between writing and web design artistry, to have compiled the most
comprehensive data on print-on-demand publishers available on the internet.
AuthorMe
“ The mission of AuthorMe.com is to offer hope to writers that
go unnoticed in the publishing world. We understand that a writer's
dream is to be discovered and respected as an artist, to see his or
her works published, and to be considered as a possible prospect for
future media writings.”
Road
to Romance
The Road to Romance is a place for readers and writers of romantic and
women's fiction. Their goal is to introduce new authors to readers,
and new readers to authors.
Poets
& Writers Online
The web version of the excellent publication for creative writers, including
articles, advice, forums, and contest listings.
The
Black Writers Alliance
“ A nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting African-American
writers in improving their craft and to promote fellowship among the
writing community.”
WordThunder
“ WordThunder is designed to help fulfill the needs of the online,
self-published author. Whether you publish through POD technologies,
e-books or your personal web site, marketing and promotion can become
an overwhelming challenge. If you are searching for articles, links,
a place to promote your book, or just an opportunity to hang out with
other writers, you have come to the right place.”
Publishing
links
U.S.
Copyright Office
Copyright information and application.
Library
of Congress
The Library of Congress assigns a unique identification number to the
catalog record created for each book in its cataloged collections.
ISBN
Agency
The official site operated by R.R. Bowker to apply for an ISBN publisher
prefix.
Online
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Merriam-Webster
Online
Features a dictionary and thesaurus.
Thesaurus.com
and Dictionary.com
Related sites that include links to writers' resources, games, word
information, and lots more.
Encarta
Encyclopedia
Microsoft's online encyclopedia with thousands of free articles.
Encyclopedia.com
Provides more than 17,000 short articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic
Encylopedia, Third Edition.
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