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Using Hashtags to Launch Your Book

Posted 21 November 2011 | By | Categories: Marketing, Social Media, Strategy, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

   Twitter is a wordsmith’s best friend, so it’s no surprise that authors flock to the micro-social networking service to help launch their books. While most book launch campaigns on Twitter go under the radar, every once in awhile a hashtag will hit it big, or at least be so interesting that you can’t help [...]

The Book Trailer – Authors Going Viral!

Posted 26 February 2008 | By | Categories: Marketing, Social Media | 228 Comments

If you are an unknown, first-time author with a limited marketing budget, how can you generate awareness for your book and make it stand out? My good friend (and first-time published author) Jean Marie Pierson was facing that very dilemma with her new book, “No Good Girls”. Well, it turns out that she originally wrote [...]