San Francisco Bay Area Organizations for Authors There are MANY great organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area for writers, authors and publishers! I'm not going to attempt to list them all in this post. I'd like to just highlight a few for today: Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA), Nonfictions Authors Association (NFAA), and Women's National Book Association (WNBA). BAIPA - Bay Area [...]
Got Questions or Exercises in Your Book? When working with authors about nonfiction books that have any kind of exercises or lists of questions for reflection, it's important to consider very carefully the listener experience. Imagine this: you're driving your car while listening to an audiobook. In what would be the text edition, print or ebook, the author has a list of questions you're supposed [...]
Responding to reviews and having social media conversations where others can "eavesdrop" is like turning the sprinkler on in the garden that is the seed bed of your fan base.
What does the rise in podcast listening have to do with your audiobook? How can you take advantage of the trend? Also announcing "Audiobook Connection: Behind the Scenes with the Creative Teams" launching September 2019!
Tips for marketing your audiobooks: Use your Audible and Amazon reviews to their best advantage with the available tools and engaging with your reviewers.
Complete your AuthorCentral profile and fill it out as much as you can to provide content for your potential fans and followers.
Complete your AuthorCentral profile and fill it out as much as you can to provide content for your potential fans and followers.
Amazon Shocker I recently attended a great presentation at BAIPA. David Kudler and Bob Heyman presented about keywords and categories. They covered how to select them and then what to do with them. Then I attended an IBPA webinar by Joshua Tallent on the same basic topic. As an audiobook producer, I was dismayed with what I learned. On Amazon and Audible the book [...]
Audiobook Marketing and Social Media Whether you are someone who groans at the thought of social media or someone who is excited by new ideas on how to use social media to market your audiobook, this post is for you. Social Media Grumps Social media can be overwhelming when we start to dive into all the many potential ways to do it, the time [...]
Audiobook Marketing Program - AMP up your sales and visibility How do I market my audiobook? That's a question I get a lot, and I'm going to do a short series on some ways to charge up your marketing for your audio book. But before I dive into this first segment, I'm so excited to announce the launch of Pro Audio Voices' AMP - [...]