Self Published Authors

"Self Published Authors" Bi-Monthly Newsletter
Helping self-published authors promote and market their books and share information and resources.

October 1, 2009 Volume 4: Issue 20
Dan Shaurette
editor@selfpublishedauthors.com
http://www.selfpublishedauthors.com

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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. Editor's Notebook
2. Newsletter Submission Guidelines
3. Feature Article by Patricia Fry
4. Free Products, Services, and Downloads
5. Creative Corner by Randy Ingermanson
6. Announcements
7. Resource Links
8. Classes, Groups, Workshops, And Events
9. Author Showcase
10. Commentary by Jennifer Carsen
11. Press Release
12. Reciprocal Links
13. Subscriber Management / Contact Information

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1: EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
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Welcome to the October 2009 newsletter for SelfPublishedAuthors.com. For those of you who are new to the website and newsletter, I hope you will enjoy this issue. Thank you for visiting the website and subscribing to the list. To the regulars out there, I'm very glad to see you back for another issue.

This November marks the 10th anniversary of National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. Do you have an idea for a new novel burning to be written but you've been putting it off? Sometimes you just need a spark, and the goal of NaNoWriMo is to put down 50,000 words to let that spark catch aflame. Visit NaNoWriMo.org for more info and to create a free account to track your progress.

If you have questions, comments, suggestions, or if you'd like to contribute, be interviewed, add an event or have a request, please reply to this email, or drop a line to me at: editor@selfpublishedauthors.com

Thanks for reading and enjoy the issue!

Dan Shaurette
editor@selfpublishedauthors.com
http://www.DanShaurette.com

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2: NEWSLETTER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The newsletter for SelfPublishedAuthors.com is here to provide a resource for all authors. Obviously, I want to help you succeed in your writing, self-publishing efforts, and self-promotion. I have received a few requests from fellow authors asking what they can do to promote their books in the newsletter.

I am always happy to help promote an author and their works in the newsletter. That's what we're here for. That being said, the best I can do is one of the following.

If you are interested in writing an article about your experiences as a self-published author, I would be more than happy to consider it for publication. If I publish the article, I will give you space for a signature box that you could use to promote yourself and your book.

If you would like me to review your book, or interview you for the newsletter, I would ask that you please query me first before sending an ARC copy of your book, eBook format preferred, or even better, an audio version. The last thing I want to do is build up a slush pile for reviews.

If you have a press release or other details about yourself and your book, do feel free to forward them to me and I will happily publish them in our Author's Showcase. These aren't reviews, rather they are spotlights, and you can send me your info anytime if you wish to be included. I will share one book and author per issue.

If you have a book signing coming up, we do try to list those when they are timely. Remember our newsletter is published in February, April, June, August, October, and December. If you host a class or workshop, or have a website that promotes a writer's resource, please let us know about it. All links about such events are provided free of charge. Your name, location, dates, and contact info. will be presented.

Currently there are places for you to list your books, websites, and even join our banner ad exchange. You can also feel free to post in our forums and tell us about yourself and your books.

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3: FEATURE ARTICLE by Patricia Fry
Piggyback Book Promotion
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Some of you may have heard of Piggyback Marketing. Generally, this means promoting your product using a marketing channel from another company. In other words, you might arrange to have another author include your flyer or brochure along with hers when she ships orders or does a mail promo. You might tuck your brochure in with another author's newsletter.

I'd like to suggest Piggyback Promotion using the momentum of your own original efforts. How? Let's say that in recent months, a review of your romance novel was posted at a popular site, your book was mentioned in your college alumni newsletter and you had a story published in Ellipsis Magazine. GREAT!! This is all good exposure. But don't waste the opportunity to expand on that exposure. What more can you do? Here are 10 suggestions:

1. Send announcements of your accomplishments to every newsletter editor in every organization with which you are affiliated. This might include writing groups, your alumni association, your class reunion roster, your church bulletin, the local newspaper, business/hobby clubs and certainly publishers' organizations such as SPAWN. As a member of SPAWN, you can make such announcements in SPAWNews (which goes out to around 2,000 readers). Contact Editor@spawn.org. Chances are, if you're a member, you announced publication of your book. Don't stop there, send announcements each time that book gets press.
2. Spread the news in the forums, online groups and chat rooms you frequent. If you don't visit forums, groups, etc., start now. Locate discussion groups and bulletin boards/forums in your genre/topic by doing a Google search. Once you land on a good site, note it, but also check out their resource lists/links pages. You're bound to find oodles more sites you can use in your promotional efforts.
3. Contact the editors of newsletters in your genre/topic and the hosts of appropriate Web sites and ask them to print your announcement. Again, if you are not aware of newsletters and sites in your genre or topic, spend several hours each week seeking out new ones and make a note of them for future reference. (I actually keep a binder of writing/publishing Web sites for promoting my writing/publishing-related books.)
4. Share these tidbits at your Web site and in your blog.
5. Send announcements to your addressbook. Presumably, most of the people in your email addressbook are friends and colleagues who are interested in you and your achievements. Remind them to tell their friends about your book.
6. Create a newsletter in which to keep readers abreast of your published articles, book reviews, etc.
7. Send holiday cards 4 times a year to those folks without computers telling them of your latest escapades and kudos. You can send them at Christmas/Hanukah; Easter/first day of Spring--a time of new beginnings; Summer/Father's Day and Fall/Back to School/Halloween.
8. Use return/no postage envelopes to tell people about your book and the publicity it's receiving. By this, I mean, when you get promo in the mail along with a postage paid return envelope, and you are not interested in their offer, use the envelope to share news of your book.
9. Post notices with your checks when paying bills by mail.
10. Print up flyers to hand out at book festivals, writers' conferences and when you go out to speak, for example, inviting folks to explore sites where your book has been reviewed or your promotional articles have been posted.

I'm sure that you can come up with 10 more such ideas. But the point is not to collect good ideas, it's to act on them. I suggest choosing 4 of these suggestions and diligently following through with them over the next three months. See what sort of return you get on your investment of time.
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Copyright © 2009 Patricia Fry. Reprinted with permission.
Patricia Fry is the Executive Director of SPAWN (Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network) http://www.spawn.org/. She is the author of 29 books, including THE RIGHT WAY TO WRITE, PUBLISH AND SELL YOUR BOOK. http://www.matilijapress.com/rightway.html. Visit her informative blog often: http://www.matilijapress.com/publishingblog/.

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4: FREE PRODUCTS, SERVICES, and DOWNLOADS
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PENWAG.COM - Free website for storytellers and readers
PenWag.com is a simple website with no gimmicks; just an online place for friends to share stories. If you're a storyteller, a reader, a teacher, a student, a hillbilly, a writer, or a wannabe writer, come wag your pen or read a story. Registration and use of the site is free for all.
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5: CREATIVE CORNER by Randy Ingermanson
A Failure To Communicate
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There's a famous line in the movie COOL HAND LUKE: "What we've got here is failure to communicate." The line comes twice, once said seriously by the evil prison warden and once said mockingly by the title character, Luke.

Failures to communicate are pretty common in real life, and in many cases, they're caused by different personality types. In last month's column, I talked about the Myers-Briggs scheme of classifying personalities into 16 different types

This month, I'll look at a somewhat simpler scheme developed by D. Glenn Foster, who started his career as a polygraph examiner. What Foster discovered was that his own observations of his subjects told him a lot more about their guilt or innocence than his lie-detector machines could.

Foster's original idea was that there is no one best way to interrogate somebody. Methods that work on one personality type won't work on another. So if you want to get a confession, your first task is to "read" your prisoner's personality type. Then you use the appropriate methods to get your confession. Of course, if the prisoner isn't actually guilty, you'll discover that soon enough.

Eventually, Foster became an "interview consultant" who taught methods of interrogation to law enforcement agencies to help them get confessions from prisoners. I recently read his book, HOW CAN I GET THROUGH TO YOU? -- coauthored with Mary Marshall -- on the subject of interpersonal communication.

You might think that Foster's methods are only useful to novelists writing police procedural mysteries. Nope. An interrogation is only one of many ways that people communicate -- or fail to. The book by Foster and Marshall is actually aimed at anyone having communication failures. Whether you're not communicating with a friend or a family member, a co-worker or a Congress-critter, this book shows you how to read people and analyze what's gumming up the communication lines.

Foster categorizes people into four basic types:
* Feeler
* Driver
* Analyzer
* Elitist

Let's look at each of these in turn:

A FEELER likes to get along with people. Feelers put other people's feelings first. A Feeler wants to get along with you and will try to accommodate you, if possible. Feelers are people persons. If you run a business, you want your receptionist and your PR director to be Feelers.

A DRIVER likes to get things done. Drivers don't much worry about hurting somebody else's feelings, so long as they hit their task objectives. A Driver likes to argue and doesn't get a bit offended if you argue back. In fact, a Driver likes that and respects you if you push back. If you run a business, you want the sales-droids who make cold calls to be Drivers, because they don't take no for an answer.

An ANALYZER likes to figure things out. Analyzers don't have any need to "share their feelings" with others. They'd much rather share their thoughts. Analyzers don't mind a spirited discussion, so long as it's about ideas and doesn't get personal. Analyzers dislike "ad hominem" arguments and will walk away when the heat turns on. If you run a business, you want your business strategist and your engineers to be Analyzers.

An ELITIST is a one-of-a-kind person. The Elitist marches to his own drummer. There's a bit of the Feeler, the Driver, and the Analyzer in the Elitist. The Elitist rarely gets close to anyone, because there just isn't anybody like him. If you run a business and you need a visionary who thinks differently, then an Elitist might be what you need.

When two people are talking, they tend to treat the other person the way they expect to be treated. This works fine, if they're both the same personality type, because they have a common idea of how to communicate.

A Feeler talking with a Feeler will get along fine, because they both want the other person to feel good about the exchange. Each will bend over backwards to accommodate the other. No hard words and at the end, everybody's happy.

A Driver talking with a Driver will also do great. They'll likely get into a spirited argument, each giving no quarter, hacking away at each other until one of them wins or they reach a happy stalement. Plenty of hard words, but no hard feelings, because shouting is just part of the game, and at the end of the game, everybody knows who won.

An Analyzer talking with an Analyzer will have a terrific time. They'll get into a deep discussion about ideas. It may or not be an argument, but even if there's a strong difference of opinion, each will take care to attack the other's ideas, not his person. No hard words, no hard feelings, and at the end, one or both of them may have changed his mind, but both will feel like they learned something.

An Elitist talking with an Elitist rarely happens, because there just aren't that many Elitists. Each will recognize that the other is someone special and rare, because all Elitists are special and rare, but always in different ways. Elitists most likely won't share their feelings, not even with another Elitist. If necessary, they may argue like a Driver or reason like an Analyzer, but at the end of the game, they're really above all that.

When members of two different groups talk, it's a different story. Each will treat the other the way they want to be treated. But neither will be treated the way they want. Let's look at what can go wrong. We'll be brief here, because we have six different kinds of pairs:

When a Feeler talks with a Driver, she may very well be irritated by the Driver's "pushiness." Feelers see Drivers as being "control freaks" who want to "run over everyone else." The Driver will be annoyed by the Feeler's wimpiness. Drivers expect push-back, and when a Feeler just gives in, where's the fun in that? Drivers see Feelers as being "spineless" slugs who "beat around the bush" and "won't stand up for themselves."

When a Feeler talks with an Analyzer, she'll be annoyed by the Analyzer's "coldness." Feelers see Analyzers as being "too much in their heads" and as eggheads who "don't care about other people's feelings." The Analyzer will be irritated by the Feeler's "mushy-headed" approach to life. Analyzers see Feelers as "uninterested in ideas" and "losing their heads in a crisis."

When a Driver talks with an Analyzer, he may be annoyed by the Analyzer's cautious "look before you leap" foot-dragging. A Driver wants to forge ahead, because "he who hesitates is lost." The Analyzer will be especially infuriated when a Driver makes a "personal attack" in an argument. The Analyzer is sensitive to personal criticism and wants to "focus on ideas, not personalities."

When a Feeler, Driver, or Analyzer talks with an Elitist, they'll be put off by the Elitist's "arrogant and condescending" attitude. Since Elitists generally dress with excellent style, Feelers, Drivers, and Analyzers may criticise the Elitist for being "aristocratic." Elitists have elements of the Feeler, the Driver, and the Analyzer, so they have all sorts of ways to cross communications. The Elitist may see the Feeler as "weak" or "spineless"; may see the Driver as "pushy" and "overbearing"; may see the Analyzer as "cold" or "smart, but lacking vision."

There's a lot more to be said on Feelers, Drivers, Analyzers, and Elitists. I highly recommend the book HOW CAN I GET THROUGH TO YOU? by D. Glenn Foster and Mary Marshall for vastly more information on how these personality types work. Their interest is in helping people understand their own type and the types of others, so they can learn to get along.

Our interest, as novelists, is in learning how to understand our characters so we can pick a fight. Fiction is about characters in conflict. The more you know about what causes conflict, the more realistic your fiction will be.

I thank my friend, Mark Mynheir, a working cop and novelist, for alerting me to the Foster Method.
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Copyright © 2009 Randy Ingermanson. Reprinted with permission.
Award-winning novelist Randy Ingermanson, "the Snowflake Guy," publishes the Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine, with more than 17,000 readers, every month. If you want to learn the craft and marketing of fiction, AND make your writing more valuable to editors, AND have FUN doing it, visit http://www.AdvancedFictionWriting.com/.

Download your free Special Report on Tiger Marketing and get a free 5-Day Course in How To Publish a Novel.

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6: ANNOUNCEMENTS
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FREE First Lesson in Book Promotion Workshop

Get personalized book promotion help from 35-year veteran author Patricia Fry.
Special offer: The first lesson in her 6-week online Book Promotion Workshop is FREE. No obligation to sign up.
Information: http://www.matilijapress.com/course_bookpromotion.htm
Questions: PLFry620@yahoo.com.

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7: RESOURCE LINKS
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SPAWN - Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network
The purpose of Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network (SPAWN) is to provide opportunities, information and resources for authors, illustrators, graphic designers, photographers, editors, self-publishers, and others involved in the process of publishing. SPAWN also gives these creative professionals the opportunity to exchange ideas and information with each other and the general public. SPAWN is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Our Board of Directors is listed on this page. SPAWN membership dues are $45 per year.
http://www.spawn.org/

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8: CLASSES, GROUPS, WORKSHOPS, and EVENTS
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SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK EXPO
The time has come to have an exhibition where the spotlight is solely on self-published books and authors. The first annual Self-Publishing Book Expo (SPBE) will bring national focus and attention to the fastest-growing segment of today's publishing industry.

Unlike any other book exhibit, the Self-Publishing Book Expo will be the only event of its kind to highlight the books of self-publishing companies and their authors, and give them the prominence and prestige they deserve.

The SPBE will bring together many of the key players who make this universe the thriving area it has become, while simultaneously exposing both the houses and the authors to a greater audience of other publishing professionals, booksellers, media, and consumers.

Topics will include everything from publicity & marketing to sales, distribution, e-books, etc. We have a very impressive list of speakers lined up.

If you need any further information or would like to speak to
one of us, please feel free to call 212-353-3478 or e-mail us at info@selfpubbookexpo.com.

The first annual SPBE will be held at 630 SECOND AVENUE, right in the heart of midtown Manhattan, between 34th and 35th Streets. It is easily accessible to eastside subways, tunnels, and bridges.

The Expo will be a one-day event on Saturday, November 7, 2009. Hours of the Expo will be 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.

General admission: $15.00 (cash, payable at the door)
Includes admission to the Expo, plus, from 3:00 - 4:00 pm, a special "Open House: How to Get Started" panel discussion hosted by representatives of the top self-publishing companies. Come learn all the tools you'll need to see your work in print!
Exhibitors -- $275.00 prior to 7/15/09; $325.00 thereafter.
http://www.selfpubbookexpo.com

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9: AUTHOR SHOWCASE
J. J. Hebert author of UNCONVENTIONAL
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J. J. Hebert uses his past experience for his new novel about James Frost, a young janitor determined to retire the janitor's mop once and for all and become a published author.

You know that guy, the one collecting the garbage? The one mopping the floors at your school? The one who makes the toilets sparkle? That used to be J. J. Hebert. He was that guy. But now "that guy" is James Frost, the main character from Hebert's soon-to-be-released novel, UNCONVENTIONAL.

"Lately, I've been referring to the book as Good Will Hunting meets The Pursuit of Happyness," said Hebert, "because my novel features a janitor with a gift outside of janitorial work, and he's willing to do anything--and I mean anything--to fulfill his dream of becoming a published author. I mean, think of it, here we have a janitor/writer--certainly an unconventional fellow, don't you think? James Frost stands as proof that no matter your circumstances, now is always the time to pursue your dreams!"

UNCONVENTIONAL, available July 2009 in paperback and as a free serialized audio book narrated by Jeffrey Kafer (winner of the 2008 Voicey Awards), has already been praised by award-winning author Gemma Halliday as "a wonderful story full of heart, humor, and what it means to truly be successful. An A+ novel for the keeper shelf."

When asked about his journey, Hebert gladly explained: "I'm only twenty-five-years-old, but I began writing seriously somewhere around 2003, when I could also be found mopping floors and scrubbing toilets with an oversized toothbrush. My first novel, DEFIANCE RISING, went on to win numerous awards, one of my favorites being The Sit-In-My-Drawer-And-Never-Get-Sold Award and also, my least favorite, The Write-Seven-Drafts-And-Scrap-It Award. You should see the trophies; my mantel can't contain them! Okay, so you get it; Defiance went nowhere. Then I wrote UNCONVENTIONAL. And, thankfully, I'm no longer a janitor."

Like James Frost's writing life, Hebert's career hasn't been problem free. He spent all of 2007 writing and editing UNCONVENTIONAL and most of 2008 trying to land a literary agent. After receiving countless rejection letters, and some manuscript requests, the former agent to Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti decided to represent Hebert, but that business relationship dissolved by the beginning of 2009. Then, in mid-January, Hebert decided to go with Mindstir Media, publisher of mind-stirring books, to release his tale about young janitor/author James Frost.

"Just to clarify something, because I know it'll be asked many times," said Hebert, "I'm not James Frost and James Frost is not me. Sure, he and I are a lot alike but he went through much more than I. Mostly because I'm a sadistic individual and I enjoy watching my characters suffer. Well, not really. I just think conflict sells--and there's lots of conflict in UNCONVENTIONAL. I hope my scheme works in the end. If not, I might have to go back to sweeping and mopping floors for a living. Please spread the word about UNCONVENTIONAL and keep me away from those mucky toilets!"

To learn more about J. J. Hebert and UNCONVENTIONAL, the novel designed to inspire readers to reach for their dreams, please visit http://www.jjhebert.net. Hebert can also be found on MySpace (http://www.jjonmyspace.com), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/jjhebert), and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/authorjjhebert).

About the company: Mindstir Media is an independent publisher specializing in inspirational fiction. Its titles are sold throughout the USA as well as abroad (e.g. Canada, Germany, UK, Japan, France). Mindstir utilizes unconventional marketing methods, such as offering free serialized audiobooks, and also embraces new technology, for example the Espresso Book Machine, an ATM for books.

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10: COMMENTARY by Jennifer Carsen
Why So Many Writers Are Morning People
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You've pulled all-nighters. You've burned the midnight oil. You've worked through the wee hours. It's what lawyers do (as well as law students, though generally more pizza is involved).

But what I'm suggesting is a radical departure from this. I'm suggesting that you carve out time to write in the morning - when the sun is on its way up rather than down, when you're daisy-fresh rather than dog-tired.

You may be wondering how you can do this, especially considering that you're bleary-eyed after all those late nights. Daisy-fresh may be the furthest thing from your mind at five a.m., when the only thing you can ponder is whether or not to roll over before you hit the snooze button.

But here's the thing: Early morning is the only time that's truly yours. Nothing has blown up in spectacular fashion yet. Nobody's looking for you, eager for a chat or a favor or help with a particularly loathsome task. It's just you and your time, before the day gets away from you.

Because the day will get away from you - that much is certain. We've all had days that started with the best of intentions and ended in recriminations or even tears. Even good days become a kind of triage in which only the most important, urgent tasks get done. Your writing is important, but it's not urgent because nobody but you will care if you skip it. The only way to be certain you get it done is to sneak it in early, before you quite know what's hit you. Then the rest of the day is gravy.

Here are some tips for changing your night-owl ways:

1. Do it gradually. Every morning for one week, set your alarm clock 15 minutes earlier than you normally would. The next week, bump it up by an additional 15 minutes. That may not seem like a lot, but you'll gain an hour over the course of a month in a way that won't shock your system.

2. Make friends with your TiVo. Do you really need to stay up late to watch Cake Boss, or Top Gun for the zillionth time? Plan your TV watching in advance so you don't get sucked into something vapid.

3. Don't rile yourself up before bed. Oftentimes it's hard to get up in the morning because it's hard to get to sleep the night before. Avoid too much caffeine late in the day, and also too much booze. (You may think that third glass of wine is your express ticket to Slumbertown, but alcohol actually disrupts your sleep patterns in a big way--you may crash hard initially, but you won't sleep well.) Also, if you read before bed, stick to fiction; non-fiction tends to stir up your mind rather than winding you down for the day.

4. Just do it. You will not want to get up when the alarm rings 15 minutes early. Do it anyway, without thinking too much about it. Get up. Write. Repeat. After a while, you'll wonder how you ever got along without that extra time in the a.m.
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Copyright © 2008 Jennifer Carsen. Reprinted with permission from http://www.ArticleCity.com/.
Jennifer Carsen, J.D., is the founder of Big Juicy Life. Her specialty is turning lawyers into writers. Go to http://www.bigjuicylifecoaching.com/ to download the free report, "6 Myths About Leaving the Law for Writing."

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11: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Wright's Online Book Reviews for Self-Published Works
http://www.wrightbookreviews.com/

Does this sound familiar?

You have gone to a lot of effort to get a book self-published and now you are trying to get the book sold. You have read in numerous locations that one of the best selling devices is to get a book reviewed. However, no one will even look at your book. What do you do? Are you tired of getting ignored by book review authors and publications? A new website dedicated to reviewing self-published works is about to ease your frustration.

"We created Wright's Online Book Reviews for Self-Published Works as a way for authors to have someone consider their book after all their hard work to get it published. We feel that self-publishing is now a legitimate path for an author to take and we want to acknowledge this by taking a look at their book." said co-founder Adam Wright, a long-time librarian and leader in his field. "At the same time, we realize that libraries and book stores have a difficult time fitting self-published items into their collection development policies because of the lack of credibility attached to self-publishing." Adam continues. "We would like to do the hard work for libraries and book stores by filtering out the jewels from the junk of the self-publishing world." Adam started the site with his Kerry after visiting San Francisco and reading an article on the plane trip back about how self-publishing has become more widespread but people have difficulty getting their self-published works taken seriously. Adam, as a library consultant, knew that many libraries required at least one reputable review to consider purchasing a book, went searching the web for a review source."

"We didn't find many so we thought it was a shame that some voices were not being heard just because a book had been self-published versus the traditional means. We wanted to change that." Adam stated when asked. In response, Adam and Kerry started Wright's Online Book Reviews for Self-Published Works (WBR) with the mission of "To promote self-published works by providing honest, credible reviews of them." WBR has figured out a review process that will consider each submission fairly, but only the best of the best will get an actual review written. "We are going to use Nancy Pearl's 50 page test when it comes to reviewing books. If after 50 pages, we do not feel the book is high quality, we will move onto the next one." Kerry says, a longtime teacher and Speech Therapist. "Every week, we plan to list out the books who made the cut and those who did not. In this way, libraries and book stores know whether the book is worthy of purchase. We also give more in-depth reviews of the good ones." During the month of September, WBR will accepting inquires from interested authors to be some of the first reviewed by the site, which will debut with reviews on October 11, 2009. Interested authors should go to the website at http://www.wrightbookreviews.com/ to fill out the form to have their book considered. It should be noted that all books received by WBR for review will be donated to a local library.

About WBR
WBR is one of the first sites dedicated to reviewing self-published titles. Its mission is to help authors promote their books through their reviews.

For more information: Contact Adam Wright at 817-965-5599, or email awright@wrightbookreviews.com.

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12: RECIPROCAL LINKS
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13: Subscriber Management / Contact Information
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