You are listening to the audio version of the post: Lessons From Authors Featuring Maggie O'Farrell's "After You'd Gone"

Hello Authors,

Fiction writers learn from other fiction writers and Maggie O’Farrell is one of the best. In this podcast you will learn that sometimes NOT playing by “the rules” results in a fabulous book ~ Claudine

Link to After You’d Gone by Maggie O’Farrell

Link to the latest cover of After You’d Gone

Link to the video class mentioned in the intro: Sit & Write: Begin - teaches book marketing and writing… Get Inspired With Confidence. $97 for a limited time by published authors, Claudine Wolk & Kate Brenton.

Get Your Book Seen and Sold book (eBook and paperback) complete with simple description of publishing choices and exercises to identify your book’s target audience and where to find them.

How do you like the new, cool intro music of the podcast? Thank you to composer/performer Nick Gloire with Pixabay!

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Sharon Castlen, an expert book marketer, can be found at her website IntegratedBookMarketing.com. With over forty years of experience as a book marketer with a specialty in book distribution, not to mention the book marketer for my first book, It Gets Easier and Other Lies We Tell New Mothers, Sharon answers questions that I have heard from every author about book marketing - why it’s important and how it works to sell books!

In this podcast, Sharon covers:

* The importance of knowing your target market.

* How book distribution works and when is should be set up

* Ingram vs Ingram Spark

* The relationship between book marketing and book distribution

* The difference between Book Marketer and Book Publicist

* The months to NEVER publish your book

* You can email her for a 15 minute free conversation to see if she can help to market your book at Sharon@integratedbookmarketing.com. Put WOLK in the Subject line so Sharon knows you came from Get Your Book Seen and Sold Podcast.

From the podcast episode: Sharon reminds authors…

If you don’t have good book distribution, the marketing & media you do won’t be valuable because buyers won’t know where to find your book.

The book marketing begins before the writing ends.

Honor your strength, outsource your weakness.

The IBPA “Book Industry Standards Worksheet” that Sharon mentions in the podcast.

Credit: Podcast Pic Photo by Donna Mae Moltio on Unsplash

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Get Your Book Seen and Sold book (eBook and paperback) By Moi and Julie Murkette includes additional information on book distribution - easy graphs and explanations.

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You are listening to the audio version of the post: Get Your Book Out There For Sale - Book Distribution Options

Hello Authors,

Book Distribution IS Book Marketing. Regardless of your choice to traditionally publish or self-publish, it’s important for you to understand book distribution or how your book gets into the hands of book buyers. Consider this podcast a great beginning summary of how book distribution works and why it is important for you to understand. ~ Claudine

Link to Interview with expert author, Joanna Penn on Get Your Book Seen and Sold Podcast:

Link to Joanna Penn’s article, How to Publish An eBook!

Link to Dave Chesson’s article on The Best Aggregators and Publishers for Self-Published Authors - updated for 2024 (love this guy!)

Get Your Book Seen and Sold book (eBook and paperback) complete with Book Distribution graphs and explanations.

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