Drop Everything and Read Day is coming up on April 12th! Get ready to celebrate!

D-E-A-R Day, which stands for Drop Everything and Read, is a national celebration of reading designed to remind families to make reading a priority in their lives.

It's celebrated every year on April 12th, which is the birthday of Beverly Clearly, the author of the Ramona books. A main feature of the Ramona books was the DEAR Time, a reading practice where everybody would drop everything and read for a while.

I'm giving you advance notice to celebrate Drop Everything and Read Day on April 12th by inviting your followers, your email subscribers, and your social network to celebrate the day with you and drop everything and read your book.

Or if you don't want them to read your book, then have them read my book 1001 Ways to Market Your Books.

Either way that's fine with me: Your book, or mine!

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I encourage you to think about telling more stories — to entice people to read your books, to interact with you on social media, or to become an advocate for you.

The more stories you tell, the more listeners will become involved in what you have to teach and what you have to share.

All good stories are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished listening to one, you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places, and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a storyteller. — Ernest Hemingway, novelist

And if you are a storyteller, then you really are somebody that people will pay attention to, that people will listen to.

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Folks say that the best stories of the South are written in recipes; you hear it so much it begins to sound like just something to say. But I have seldom listened to my people speak of the past without talking, sooner or later, about chicken. We honor people with it. — Rick Bragg, humorist and storyteller

Almost every great culture tells incredible numbers of stories through the foods that they serve, the foods that they eat, the foods that they cook, and the recipes they create.

Think about that in terms of how you go about marketing your books, your services, your other products. Learn to tell a story. Create a great recipe.

And the recipe doesn't have to be about food. It can be about how to get something done. Just start to share some of the best stories you can possibly share.

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