Coming Soon! A new addition to Christian Book Marketing. Custom Book Cover Designs for the Frugal Author. That's right! Christian Book Marketing is soon to release custom book cover designs for the Frugal Author. These designs will allow authors to choose from various templates, communicate with the graphic arts department while designing and creating a complete book cover front and back with all the goodies.
Our professional photography department, graphic artists and editing department will be able to help you create a professional eye catching book cover that will make your book stand out and attract attention.
More details to come in the near future as we launch our new web site.
Do It Yourself Editing: Frugal Approach to Marketing
Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers: The Ultimate Frugal Booklet for Avoiding Word Trippers and Crafting Gatekeeper-Perfect Copy
by Carolyn Howard-Johnson
HowToDoItFrugally Publishing,2010
ISBN: 1450507654
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
I'm firmly of the opinion that one of the main difference between a good book and a great book is the quality of the edit. Carolyn Howard-Johnson knows that and has provided a series of books designed specifically to help authors edit their books without having to spend a fortune. The latest one in the Frugal series is a handy list of tricky, “trip-you-up” words that every writer would do well to master. Some, like “advice / advise” are common problems that dog the writer from primary school onwards, and it's probably time to get these sorted out. Others, like “although / though” are more subtle, and Howard-Johnson doesn't shirk from pointing out why the use of one word is preferable over another. The explanations are always clear, with well written and original examples, and once you've read Howard-Johnson's words of wisdom, you won't make the mistake again. The book is just 50 pages, and is easy to carry around for reference, or check through quickly when you're unsure. You could also use it as a kind of course book, taking on a pair of words a day with the aim of improving your overall English skills. Even if your English is masterful already, you might be surprised at how often you misuse some of the more common sets, such as “bring / take” or “childlike / childish.” Howard-Johnson even provides ill-used phrases like “It is what it is.” or the difference between i.e. and e.g. (I'm afraid I've misused this one myself). The book ends with a list of other recommended editing books.
A few small errors in a manuscript or piece of writing may seem like a minor problem, but they mark the writer as an amateur and can be just what an overworked editor is looking for in order to move your unread manuscript over to the slush pile. At best, they make the writer look sloppy and uneducated. At worst, you may be conveying something quite different to what you had in mind. Not all of writing is this clear and straightforward, so ensuring that you understand and are able to easily use and distinguish commonly confused words correctly is more than just a good thing. It's essential. That so much helpful advice is couched in such light-hearted, easy to read and entertaining prose is due to Howard-Johnson's abilityities. This little book has a simplicity that belies the importance of what it's conveying. Do yourself, and your readers, a favour and make sure that you choose the right word every time you write.
About the Reviewer:
Magdalena Ball runs the review site The Compulsive Reader (www.compulsivereader.com) .An Australian poet, she blogs at http://magdalenaball.blogspot.com/ and her Web site is www.magdalenaball.com .
About the author:
The New Book Review is blogged by UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers. It is a free service offered to those who want to encourage the reading of books they love. That includes authors who want to share their favorite reviews, reviewers who'd like to see their reviews get more exposure, and readers who want to shout out praise of books they've loved. Please see submission guidelines on the left of this page. Reviews and essays are indexed by author names, reviewer names, and review sites. Writers will find the index handy for gleaning the names of small publishers. Find other writer-related blogs at Sharing with Writers and The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor.
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by Carolyn Howard-Johnson
HowToDoItFrugally Publishing,2010
ISBN: 1450507654
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
I'm firmly of the opinion that one of the main difference between a good book and a great book is the quality of the edit. Carolyn Howard-Johnson knows that and has provided a series of books designed specifically to help authors edit their books without having to spend a fortune. The latest one in the Frugal series is a handy list of tricky, “trip-you-up” words that every writer would do well to master. Some, like “advice / advise” are common problems that dog the writer from primary school onwards, and it's probably time to get these sorted out. Others, like “although / though” are more subtle, and Howard-Johnson doesn't shirk from pointing out why the use of one word is preferable over another. The explanations are always clear, with well written and original examples, and once you've read Howard-Johnson's words of wisdom, you won't make the mistake again. The book is just 50 pages, and is easy to carry around for reference, or check through quickly when you're unsure. You could also use it as a kind of course book, taking on a pair of words a day with the aim of improving your overall English skills. Even if your English is masterful already, you might be surprised at how often you misuse some of the more common sets, such as “bring / take” or “childlike / childish.” Howard-Johnson even provides ill-used phrases like “It is what it is.” or the difference between i.e. and e.g. (I'm afraid I've misused this one myself). The book ends with a list of other recommended editing books.
A few small errors in a manuscript or piece of writing may seem like a minor problem, but they mark the writer as an amateur and can be just what an overworked editor is looking for in order to move your unread manuscript over to the slush pile. At best, they make the writer look sloppy and uneducated. At worst, you may be conveying something quite different to what you had in mind. Not all of writing is this clear and straightforward, so ensuring that you understand and are able to easily use and distinguish commonly confused words correctly is more than just a good thing. It's essential. That so much helpful advice is couched in such light-hearted, easy to read and entertaining prose is due to Howard-Johnson's abilityities. This little book has a simplicity that belies the importance of what it's conveying. Do yourself, and your readers, a favour and make sure that you choose the right word every time you write.
About the Reviewer:
Magdalena Ball runs the review site The Compulsive Reader (www.compulsivereader.com) .An Australian poet, she blogs at http://magdalenaball.blogspot.com/ and her Web site is www.magdalenaball.com .
About the author:
The New Book Review is blogged by UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers. It is a free service offered to those who want to encourage the reading of books they love. That includes authors who want to share their favorite reviews, reviewers who'd like to see their reviews get more exposure, and readers who want to shout out praise of books they've loved. Please see submission guidelines on the left of this page. Reviews and essays are indexed by author names, reviewer names, and review sites. Writers will find the index handy for gleaning the names of small publishers. Find other writer-related blogs at Sharing with Writers and The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor.
As a courtesy to the author, please tweet and retweet this post using the widget below:
Frugal Author Book Marketing, Author Sites And Blogs
Just imagine the potential when it comes to online marketing. It's a huge ocean out there with millions of people online daily. The marketing possibilities are endless. For the frugal author seeking frugal ways to promote their books there are endless author related sites, clubs, forums and groups to join. Most authors start there, list their books and set the course to create buzz for their books.
That's fine, yet that's not using the power and fullness of the Internet to promote and market your books. Sure, there are many free sites, groups, clubs, forums and social networks that you can join for free and market your books. Yet that's the low ball way of approaching author promotions and book marketing. Thousands upon thousands do it this way and with little results.
The first step to creating online book buzz while promoting both yourself as a author and your books is to create a authors site or a authors blog. A simple place where book lovers can find out about you as a author and a person. Where others can read about you, your book, your book description, other important information and of course see a picture of both you as a author and your book cover.
Once you have successfully created a wonderful authors site or authors blog, the next step is to promote and market your authors site or blog, while sharing your book online at other great sites. Note that I said "other great sites".
It's important to have a game plan when promoting and marketing your site and just because there are many free sites out there where you can share your book, site and blog. That doesn't necessarily mean that is the best way to successfully promote and market you as a author or your books. Do your homework, plan ahead, be creative and set goals.
That's fine, yet that's not using the power and fullness of the Internet to promote and market your books. Sure, there are many free sites, groups, clubs, forums and social networks that you can join for free and market your books. Yet that's the low ball way of approaching author promotions and book marketing. Thousands upon thousands do it this way and with little results.
The first step to creating online book buzz while promoting both yourself as a author and your books is to create a authors site or a authors blog. A simple place where book lovers can find out about you as a author and a person. Where others can read about you, your book, your book description, other important information and of course see a picture of both you as a author and your book cover.
Once you have successfully created a wonderful authors site or authors blog, the next step is to promote and market your authors site or blog, while sharing your book online at other great sites. Note that I said "other great sites".
It's important to have a game plan when promoting and marketing your site and just because there are many free sites out there where you can share your book, site and blog. That doesn't necessarily mean that is the best way to successfully promote and market you as a author or your books. Do your homework, plan ahead, be creative and set goals.
Doing What Galileo Did for Your Book
National Geographic on Publicity:
“Everyone knows Galileo was the first astronomer to point a telescope at the night sky. But like many facts that everyone knows, this one isn’t true. Precedence should probably to Thomas Harriot. What Harriot didn’t do was publish his observations. Bing first is important, but so is publicity.”
How to you do what Galileo did in today's world. Do your research or put forth your creative effort. Then promote using The Frugal Book Promoter (www.budurl.com/FrugalBkPromo).
“Everyone knows Galileo was the first astronomer to point a telescope at the night sky. But like many facts that everyone knows, this one isn’t true. Precedence should probably to Thomas Harriot. What Harriot didn’t do was publish his observations. Bing first is important, but so is publicity.”
How to you do what Galileo did in today's world. Do your research or put forth your creative effort. Then promote using The Frugal Book Promoter (www.budurl.com/FrugalBkPromo).
New Help for Writers Who Want Pristine Marketing Materials
Yay! My new little help for writers is on Amazon in all its chartreuse, red, and yellow glory!
Yep, you can now order a copy to put in your briefcase and read on the fly! It’s the Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers: The Ultimate Frugal Booklet for Avoiding Word Trippers and Crafting Gatekeeper-Perfect Copy.
This is a booklet. It isn’t intended to be a complete reference for every sneaky homonym in the English language. For one thing there is a nice list of those pesky guys in The Frugal Editor (http://budurl.com/TheFrugalEditor). It’s small partly because it isn’t intended to be drudgery. It’s only 54 pages, so it’s a small, easy-to-read dose of some of the most difficult word trippers, not the ones you learned in the fourth grade. And it is written with a bit of humor to brighten the experience. If you don’t learn anything from it, send it back to me and I’ll refund your money.
Buy the paperback at http://budurl.com/WordTrippersPB. It is only $6.95. You support a friend (me!) and you brush up on skills for your writing career. What could be better than that?
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Posted by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, one of Smitty's greatest fans.
Frugal Book Marketing Blogs
Many times a author can't afford to spend large amounts of money having a webmaster create a high tech authors site. The hosting fees per month can run hundreds of dollars per year plus anywhere from $500.00 upward just to have a webmaster design and create a simple authors site.
Author blogs are becoming increasingly more popular. Many authors have the ability to create, design and launch a authors blog using various free templates that are available within the blogging community. It does require some knowledge, experience and history with blogs to create a successful authors blog as there are many important factors to take into consideration.
There are ways for authors to create a authors blog the frugal way. One is to just simply go for it and start designing. The other way is to find someone that will do the creating for you at a reasonable price for their webmaster services.
Regardless of which way you choose to go, you can get a great authors blog online and create a online presence where book lovers will find your authors blog frugally and save money getting the project done.
For assistance, advice and some encouragement contact Smitty at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com
Author blogs are becoming increasingly more popular. Many authors have the ability to create, design and launch a authors blog using various free templates that are available within the blogging community. It does require some knowledge, experience and history with blogs to create a successful authors blog as there are many important factors to take into consideration.
There are ways for authors to create a authors blog the frugal way. One is to just simply go for it and start designing. The other way is to find someone that will do the creating for you at a reasonable price for their webmaster services.
Regardless of which way you choose to go, you can get a great authors blog online and create a online presence where book lovers will find your authors blog frugally and save money getting the project done.
For assistance, advice and some encouragement contact Smitty at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com
Book Marketing The Frugal And Smart Way
The frugal book marketing author. You can find hundred's of thousands of them online running around to this site and that site registering and uploading their books, book descriptions and trying to create book buzz and market their books.
Many of these sites are over flooded with authors and books all trying to compete for book sales. Between 60% and 70% of all the visitors to these sites are authors all trying to accomplish the same thing. To sell their books.
While this does provide for getting one's name up in lights, joining the crowd and creating great friendships with other authors. One must ask the question, is this affective marketing.
Well if one were to look at say the top 100 best sellers at any given time, one would find few of those authors running around joining sites and self promoting their books. Successful authors higher professionals to market and promote their books.
Within this, there are numerous ways that a author can seek professional marketing and book promotions at prices that are reasonable. Everyone has to start somewhere and while many times authors can't afford the cost of prime marketing, it doesn't mean that they cant find affordable and affective marketing.
However, order is a key word meaning that everything must be done in a order with a overall objective. The first and most important part of that order, goal and objective should be to have a authors site or blog that showcases the author and his or her books. Once a author has obtained a authors site or blog, the next step is to market that authors site so that book lovers and book buyers can find the site.
Remember, your online authors site or blog will become the number one place where book lovers find you, read about you as a author and your books. Once your authors site is up and running, then comes the marketing process of your site.
For more information and tips visit Author Media Blogs & Book Marketing and for the Christian author visit Christian Book Marketing.
Many of these sites are over flooded with authors and books all trying to compete for book sales. Between 60% and 70% of all the visitors to these sites are authors all trying to accomplish the same thing. To sell their books.
While this does provide for getting one's name up in lights, joining the crowd and creating great friendships with other authors. One must ask the question, is this affective marketing.
Well if one were to look at say the top 100 best sellers at any given time, one would find few of those authors running around joining sites and self promoting their books. Successful authors higher professionals to market and promote their books.
Within this, there are numerous ways that a author can seek professional marketing and book promotions at prices that are reasonable. Everyone has to start somewhere and while many times authors can't afford the cost of prime marketing, it doesn't mean that they cant find affordable and affective marketing.
However, order is a key word meaning that everything must be done in a order with a overall objective. The first and most important part of that order, goal and objective should be to have a authors site or blog that showcases the author and his or her books. Once a author has obtained a authors site or blog, the next step is to market that authors site so that book lovers and book buyers can find the site.
Remember, your online authors site or blog will become the number one place where book lovers find you, read about you as a author and your books. Once your authors site is up and running, then comes the marketing process of your site.
For more information and tips visit Author Media Blogs & Book Marketing and for the Christian author visit Christian Book Marketing.
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