Based on personal experience (including an 11-city tour), research, and interviews with booksellers, publicists, and authors, this authoritative book shows you how to profit by autographing your books at book signing events. It takes you from developing an itinerary for a book signing tour to evaluating profits. Hundreds of how-to tips, checklists, website references, and a trip book.
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"A gold mine of good ideas! A wealth of information for emerging authors and independent publishers. Get your copy today!” -- AuthorsDen.com --Matthew Miller
"Highly recommended. This will get your book off the shelf into the hands of those who need to read it." -- Larry James, Celebrate Love & Relationships
"This invaluable guide will help you turn a simple book signing into a book-selling tour de force." -- Mary Westheimer, CEO, BookZone
"Turn your speech into a book, then have a book-signing everywhere you speak! This book is loaded with good advice." -- Dottie Walters, Editor, Sharing Ideas Newsmagazine
A must for any author whether the book is self-published or published by a major New York publisher. -- Writers World --Maryanne Raphael
Important for any author who wants high sales and good promotion; covers everything; packed with practical insider advice. Highly recommended. -- Reviewer's Bookwatch, July 2001 --James A. Cox
"Highly recommended. This will get your book off the shelf into the hands of those who need to read it." -- Larry James, Celebrate Love & Relationships
"This invaluable guide will help you turn a simple book signing into a book-selling tour de force." -- Mary Westheimer, CEO, BookZone
"Turn your speech into a book, then have a book-signing everywhere you speak! This book is loaded with good advice." -- Dottie Walters, Editor, Sharing Ideas Newsmagazine
A must for any author whether the book is self-published or published by a major New York publisher. -- Writers World --Maryanne Raphael
Important for any author who wants high sales and good promotion; covers everything; packed with practical insider advice. Highly recommended. -- Reviewer's Bookwatch, July 2001 --James A. Cox
From the Author
This book began as a recording that I made while returning home from a book signing tour. That tour began as I was scheduled to present a seminar half-way across the country, Take Charge of Your Life. Tom and Patty Ellis planned this 12-city tour and sent me off with an incredibly detailed guide. I later prevailed upon them to produce a behind the scenes how-to workbook. book-tour-guide.com
The tour was about so much more than simply signing books. It was about meeting people, including book sellers, and exchanging ideas with them. It was gratifying to meet among the audiences, a mother and her young son in Scottsdale, AZ, a soon-to-be retired couple in El Paso, TX, and relatives and friends in San Antonio, TX. Most touching was the young woman who waited after the mini-seminar in El Paso--the only person among the rows of empty chairs. I noticed her while I signed books and talked with people who had waited in line. She said, "My family is waiting in the car, but I don't want to leave." In Amarillo, TX, a man careened into the bookstore parking lot and fairly shouted, "Is the author still here?" repeatedly until I assured him that she was. Though the seminar and signing were over, we went inside and talked for several minutes. Memorable moments.
From Book Signing to Best Seller provides a lot of good advice from people who have "been there and done that." I appreciate the contributions of many authors who shared their experiences.
The book is also available in eBook form and soon to be available on Kindle.
The tour was about so much more than simply signing books. It was about meeting people, including book sellers, and exchanging ideas with them. It was gratifying to meet among the audiences, a mother and her young son in Scottsdale, AZ, a soon-to-be retired couple in El Paso, TX, and relatives and friends in San Antonio, TX. Most touching was the young woman who waited after the mini-seminar in El Paso--the only person among the rows of empty chairs. I noticed her while I signed books and talked with people who had waited in line. She said, "My family is waiting in the car, but I don't want to leave." In Amarillo, TX, a man careened into the bookstore parking lot and fairly shouted, "Is the author still here?" repeatedly until I assured him that she was. Though the seminar and signing were over, we went inside and talked for several minutes. Memorable moments.
From Book Signing to Best Seller provides a lot of good advice from people who have "been there and done that." I appreciate the contributions of many authors who shared their experiences.
The book is also available in eBook form and soon to be available on Kindle.
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By Dan Poynter "Author-Publisher-Speaker" (Santa Barbara, CA United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: From Book Signing to Best Seller: An Insider's Guide to Conducting a Successful Low-Cost Book Signing Tour (Paperback)
Whether you sell out to a publisher or publish yourself, the author must do the promotion. One type of book promotion is the book tour.This is a step-by-step guide. The authors show you how to plan your tour, achieve your objectives and have fun. Jo Condrill is an author and professional speakers who has conducted successful signings all over North America. John Slack is known for his unique sales seminars and strategies. This is a comprehensive guide to successful signings for new and emerging authors. Jo and John provide clear, paint-by-the-numbers guidance to make signings more profitable. Get it today-act on it tomorrow. As a publisher, author of 28 Books, 109 revised editions, six translations and over 500 magazine articles as well as a consultant to the book publishing industry, I recommend this book to both authors and publishers. --Dan Poynter, Para Publishing.
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Condrill's book was fantastic at helping me come up with creative ideas on how to promote my book, Genesis Beach, and how to get folks to host book signings at practically no cost to me. I am still overwhelmed and grateful for the success I'm having. I wouldn't have had a clue without this book.
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not bad,
By JEFF RIVERA "Author of FOREVER MY LADY on Ama... (Miami, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: From Book Signing to Best Seller: An Insider's Guide to Conducting a Successful Low-Cost Book Signing Tour (Paperback)
From Book Signing to Bestseller was okay, not bad. It was a quick-read. But I was hoping for some unique techniques to generate publicity to have a huge response to book signing but it was good to have the general idea of how to do a book signing in one place that was nice. I think the book could be condensed down to 2-3 pages of actual useful knowledge. I was also hoping to see that the authors would have actually made their books bestsellers on NY Times or something to show the credibility that they're techniques works but I am thankful to have this information in one book. I'm not sure there's another book out there like it so for that major kudos.
Jeff Rivera Author of FOREVER MY LADY on Amazon.com
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