Authors Promoting Authors has been nominated for THREE Book Blogger Appreciation Week Award(s).
This is very exciting, as APA is just a year old.
I am really happy with the changes made over the course of the summer and I am excited to be heading into another year of chaotic bliss that so often running this blog becomes.
Alongside the addition of the features, the layout and design and adding a new face to the team, I have decided to actually offering marketing and research services for authors. This wasn't as an easy decision as you might think. There is less risk when you privately offer service or skills.
I even wondered if doing such a thing, would hurt me when it came to my own writing goals.
Why is what we imagine, often more fearful than the reality?
This year, I have realized that I can no longer stay quiet about instances such as this.
At least, I will try my best to put it out in the open and from there people can decide what they want to do about it.
I love hearing about new books and books and what people are doing with their lives, how they are striving to reach their dreams and this is what has been such a blessing about running Authors Promoting Authors and this is why I am so passionate about promoting and marketing books and authors.
Here are a handful of examples that have inspired me:
How can you read about Gail Barker's new podcast and resist going to listen?
Maybe you feel the same way I do about Hope's Vengeance by Ricki Thomas and want the book to fly off the shelves, knowing a little of where the book sprung from?
Does romance speak to you? Keta Diablo has just a few.
Dennis Gelbaum spent three years researching for his book Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Would you have the strength to write about the Twin Towers in such a real way? J.E. Braun did in his book, Paranoia
Each book that Authors Promoting Authors features or gets the chance to do something with, is inspiring and I think readers of the blog are really catching on to this.
How can you not feel inspired by Marian L. Thomas' Our Guest post? And if you were inspired by that you will love her book COLOR ME JAZZMYNE
Authors Promoting Authors will be hosting a Book Blitz for COLOR ME JAZZMYNE on August 25th.
I have had a lot of requests to repost this book so if you are an author, reader or blogger who would like to do so, please drop me a line at : apasuggestions@gmail.com
There is so much inspiration and support in the APA community and I for one, will continue to be inspired by it all.
I am so glad I found you on facebook...Just reading your blog and sensing thr passion you have inspires me to go on. My book "Sensitivity 101 for the Heterosexual Male" just came out and by listening to you and your other facebook friends, I know that marketing is more important than the actual writing of a book...never would have known. Thanks for being there day after day...
ReplyDeleteCheck out my website and blog at www.PhilipNork.com.Keep up the good work!
What is so refreshing about Authors Promoting Authors is your own work-heck even your name-isn't splashed all over the blog posts.
ReplyDeleteWhat is fascinating about Authors Promoting Authors is the amount of space and options you give to authors to help promote them.
What is unique about Authors Promoting Authors is that you have slowly built up the blog and grown an audience. Not through gimmicks or tricks but by cultivating relationships-that boys and girls is the most effective way to market anything.
Whomever hires you to do their marketing and promotions will have no regrets. Your authenticity already makes you stand out from the crowd.
I don't know what your writing goals are; I do know that any small-press or independent publisher should be knocking on your door to see if you have new work and any agent worth their salt should be taking notice as well. You have proven your ability to market and promote and this can only help you with your writing goals.
APA is just a rarity. So often, blogs are filled with personal opinions, the blog owner's work, and articles that came form somewhere else. Here, it really feels like a big family, everyone supports each other, everyone encourages one another, and the author posts are so helpful. (I guess that makes you mum?)
ReplyDeleteThank you for setting the tone here. Because everyone just feeds from your energy, making it a calm and inviting place to find each other.
great blog. i'm following you now. you should check out/follow mine. i've got all things books...
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Oh my goodness what a great blog; my book "A leap of Faith" just came out about two weeks ago and I have to agree with Phil, marketing and promoting seems almost as much work as writing. I have gathered a lovely little following of Pixie fans. Yes you guessed it the book is about Pixies and the main character is Faith.
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