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Guerrilla Marketing for Writers : 100 Weapons to Help You Sell Your Work

"100 weapons for selling your work range from creating media kits and promotional calendars to appearing at book-group discussions and fundraisers. Each "weapon" is rated by its monetary cost to the author, and well over half are free. While the authors advise that this book will help in the promotion of "any kind of book, from poetry to textbooks," most of its tactics seem best suited to nonfiction."

You Can Market Your Book: All the Tools You Need to Sell Your Published Book

"Designed to help you understand basic book marketing principles. No matter how your book was published, unless you are a superstar author, you are the main salesperson. Yes, you might have distribution and you might even have a publicist for a brief time, but ultimately it's up to the author. You need to be as aggressive as possible if you want to reclaim your garage or closets from the boxes of unsold books, or if you expect a royalty check from your publisher. This book is filled with practical, low-cost ideas, strategies and case studies guaranteed to get your book to the people who need it. You wrote your book because of a passion. You Can Market Your Book will teach you how to reach readers and change lives."

The Sell-Your-Novel Toolkit: Everything You Need to Know About Queries, Synopses, Marketing & Breaking In

Everything a writer needs to know about queries, synopses, marketing, and breaking into the fiction-writing business -- revised and updated.

Jump Start Your Book Sales: A Money-Making Guide for Authors, Independent Publishers and Small Presses

"Turn yourself into a marketing master and make tens of thousands of extra dollars with the ideas in this incomparable resource. Get your books into catalogs, rack up lucrative bulk premium sales, and do author signings and radio interviews that get outrageous results. Find the secret to generating lots of free publicity, then discover how to fully capitalize on it."

Buzz Your Book by M.J. Rose & Doug Clegg

"What do New York Times bestselling writers Nora Roberts, Terry Brooks, Neil Gaiman, Janet Evanovich, Tess Gerritsen, and John Saul all have in common? They give tips on getting Buzz for books in M.J. Rose?s and Douglas Clegg?s Buzz Your Book! If you are a published author, you know that not even the biggest NY publishing houses do enough advertising and promotion for the majority of their titles. Buzz your Book, written by Douglas Clegg and M.J. Rose, will give you tons of tips and ideas to get the Buzz going for your book."

1001 Ways to Market Your Books

"1001 Ways to Market Your Books is a tome of biblical proportion, a 700-page "organized potpourri" of useful ideas, examples, tips, and suggestions."