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Guided Book Publicity Coaching: 

• Providing authors with guidance, support, positive encouragement, new marketing ideas and insights 
• Helping authors identify marketing goals for their books and their overall career goals 
• Support in examining the potential niche markets for each book 
• Recommending resources that would be a good fit for the author and their books 
• Looking in-depth at both the author and their books to see where both can fit into other promotional streams
• Examining ways on how to connect an author and their book to a greater audience 
• Goals: Increase promotion of books, working to increase sales, raising an author's community profile, reaching local media, and more!

Methodology: 
 Each author and book is different and each book publicity plan is custom made. Tina-Sue works one-on-one with authors in a confidential professional manner.

For more information, please contact Tina-Sue at: tina-sue@authorspromotingauthors.org or: vbtcpublicist@gmail.com

Other Services Available:

Research Oracle – Collecting and providing information on any subject or contact information for appropriate local, national and international publications/publishers/magazines/media for authors/businesses to get in touch with

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Builder of Confidence – Working with clients to figure out their strengths/weaknesses, their hang-ups, emotional baggage and uncertainties, then helping the client ease with jettison in order to move forward towards their professional goals, directing focus.

Creative Marketing-Working with clients to come-up with creative ways to promote their books and businesses, innovative ways that are a good fit and match to their goals.


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Know the Author Ricki Thomas

For today's Know the Author feature, we are pleased to welcome back a good friend. Meet Ricki Thomas!

About Ricki 

Ricki is the author of Hope's Vengeance, Unlikely Killer, Bloody Mary, and Bonfire Night, all published by Wild Wolf Publishing. She is a happily single mother of four, and now the elder two have left home she has more time to write and research. Her biggest interests are true crime, and renovating houses.

5 Things About Ricki

She writes scripts as well as novels, and has had several produced.

The pseudonym she uses for writing comedy fiction came from the names of her son's pet fish.

She has lived in 7 different countries.

She decorates cakes, and has written a cookbook for students.

There's a turkey carcass in her garden called Zoltar to ward off passing psychopaths.

One Line About the Latest Book

Colefield's secretive history explodes when a chilling killer recreates three murders.

Find out more about Ricki by visiting:

www.rickithomas.com

And learn more about Bonfire Night on Amazon

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Ease with Show and Telling

A personal blog post from Tina-Sue Chamberlain

This past weekend, I accompanied my husband to Show and Tell.

The local art gallery had issued an invitation for artists to come and show their work and talk about it to artisan peers.

We are new to the area and didn't know what to expect.

We jested on our way to the gallery that there was a good chance of scaring away some of the attendees with the smaller portfolio of art my husband was bringing along. He thought (and correctly), it was more than likely to be a more mature and seasoned crowd and the erotica work often brings out strong reactions from people. Can't imagine why.

It was a very welcoming group of local artisans and an eclectic mix. A photographer, a couple of sculptors, painters and artists who worked with fabric and applied different textures to paper.

I am used these art-events; mostly I just find a quiet spot in the room and keep out of the way, or try to be helpful when I can be but I love to observe these gatherings. 

The artists hung or leaned their pieces on canvases, propped them on tables and my husband left his large portfolio out opened on the table and daringly, the small portfolio with “18+ Only” on the cover opened to the first page, which is this piece...one of the tamer pieces in the book.

The group then took turns, telling about their work. Each artist stood up and talked to us about their creative processes, how the piece came to be, the techniques they used in creating it. All what you would expect for the “show” part of the equation.

But what struck me-and not for the first time, I have been around artists for as long as I can remember and these days I am often in the company of a large gathering of artisans—was each artist's ability to tell about their lives.

As they talked about their colourful works of art, they also told the story of why they liked art, what led them to painting, drawing, sculpting, where they worked, where they had traveled, about their children and spouses and pets.

 Each person in the room took up maybe ten minutes in this free-form presentation.

I think in general, artists have more of an exhibitionist quality. They want to be seen, they want to be heard and they have no qualms about sharing the stories that are behind the works or letting you know who they are. Some do this loudly, some calmly with a serene confidence, but as much as their work is a visual medium, most of them really can tell the story of themselves quite well.

This is a concept I think a writers need to learn to be at ease with..

I encourage my clients to share about their lives and relate stories that led them to writing or citing events in their experiences where they drew inspiration from. Working with authors for quite awhile, I have learned many find this a daunting task.

A lot of my work with clients involves helping them to practice personal-story-telling and working with them so they feel comfortable and confident in relating to their audiences and then finding ways for them to relate further to their readers.

Show and tell is an art-form and when it is done well, it can be applied in various ways to the overall marketing strategies. 

Give readers a chance to connect with who you are by learning to tell your story; show them your character as they read to love the characters in your books.

Tina-Sue Chamberlain offers publicity coaching and personal consulting to authors, small businesses and entrepreneurs. If you would like to work with Tina-Sue, contact her at:

tina-sue@authorspromotingauthors.org

Know the Author: Lois Joy Hofmann

Welcome to the first installment of a new feature on Page Me! Know the Author for information on  how to participate in this feature, please see the instructions here. 

Welcome Lois Joy Hofmann!

Lois Joy Hofmann Bio:

Lois Joy Hofmann reached the top of the corporate ladder, enjoying life as a CEO of a publicly-traded biomedical company. Hofmann and her husband Günter then escaped the corporate world for a very different life on the high seas, embarking on a sailing circumnavigation that would span eight years and 62 countries. After sailing the world, Hofmann began writing her nautical trilogy, In Search of Adventure and Moments of Bliss. Her first two books, Maiden Voyage and Sailing the South Pacific, are available on Amazon.

Intrepid adventurers, the couple now embarks on more conventional travel with the goal of understanding countries and cultures that they omitted the first time around.  When not traveling, Lois resides in San Diego, California, and Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, where she enjoys writing, speaking, and photography.

Please visit her author website:  www.loisjoyhofmann.com to learn more about her.  Her sailing and travel website is www.pacificbliss.com.  You can “Like” her on Facebook, follow her on Twitter @SailorsTales and subscribe to her blog at http://sailorstales.wordpress.com

Five words to describe Lois Joy Hofmann:

Circumnavigator, adventurer, author, photographer, and entrepreneur

One line about my new book, "In Search of Adventure and Moments of Bliss: Sailing the South Pacific."

The book integrates fast-paced, true stories about sailing and traveling throughout the islands of the Pacific with geography, culture and history.