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You Can Market Your Book: ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO SELL YOUR PUBLISHED BOOK

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"You Can Market Your Book" is a thorough exposition of how to market your book to the Christian community. While the principles and techniques in the book are applicable to the marketing of any book, the resources listed and writing style clearly slants the focus to the Christian writer. The book covers all the standard stuff from selecting a good title to getting reviews, creating a press kit, book signings, developing a speaking platform, online promotion, and using subcontractors. Each section is well written and contains a wealth of detailed information. "You Can Market Your Book" is a highly recommended book and is simply the best marketing manual for the Christian publishing community that I have reviewed.

Carmen Leal's newest endeavor, Marketing Your Book, is full of practical, cost-effective and creative ways to get the word out about your creation. I was inspired and encouraged by her no-nonsense approach to everything from radio and television promotion to websites and article writing. Marketing Your Book was refreshingly candid, while being optimistic and positive about the increasingly difficult task of book promotion. Four stars, Carmen. Well done!

Every author should have this book. Carmen Leal gives easy-to-follow helps to help a writer get the word out--from getting reviews to doing interviews to creating an e-zine and other web support. Even though I've written 17 books, I picked up many great ideas. Writing a book is maybe half the work for a writer; getting the word out is just as important. So, aspiring authors should get it too, so they can prepare for what's ahead.

Carmen Leal is not afraid to share what she knows. In You Can Market Your Book, Leal supplies readers with a rich array of tools needed to sell a published book. The refreshing part for me lies in the fact that these methods are usable!The new writer will see practical issues that arise in getting a book to the public; the more seasoned writer will glean insights in how to market more successfully. Carmen speaks frankly about the marketing difficulties but gives countless examples of how she and other individuals have overcome them.. You Can Market Your Book will be a standard in marketing for many years to come

This book changed my mindset about self-promotion. I am shy and didn't want to be pushy, but Carmen helped me see that I am actually helping people when I introduce them to my book. Her material is well organized and has many clever twists on old marketing ideas.
I wrote down everything she said to do---and then I did it! My book "Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome" is selling well because I've done lots of promotion including dozens of radio shows and an appearance, as an author, on the Montel Williams TV show! Thanks Carmen!

I've worked through several books on author promotion and discovered _ You Can Market Your Book _ has dozens of productive links (leading to even more fruitful links) that I haven't be able to find anywhere else.

When my first book, To Love, Honor and Vacuum, was ready to be released, I had so many ideas floating around in my head about how to market it, but I didn't know what would work or where I should focus first.

Carmen's book helps us refine our marketing plan, focus on the most important first, and then move outward. It's really helpful whether you're working in the secular market or the Christian market.

The truth is that no one will do your marketing as well as you will do your marketing. This is your baby, and even the publisher won't care about the book as much as you will. So whether you want to market or not, you need this book. And when you buy it, you'll find out that you can, indeed, market your baby!

Other books have been written about marketing your book, but Ms. Leal addresses book marketing from the unique perspective of the Christian author. I found the contact information for Christian book reviewers, media outlets and websites very helpful (something I had not seen in other books). I would strongly recommend the title to anyone who wants to reach the Christian market with the book she feels she has been called to write.

You Can Market Your Book is an easy read, but don't let that fool you. It's brimming with solid, practical ideas and real-life examples of how to promote your book. Best of all are the stories of how other authors did it. Another bonus is the inclusion of short articles by other authors which spotlight promotion, creating press releases, and how to handle those nerve-wracking interviews!

The subtitle is "All the Tools You Need to Sell Your Published Book" with a tool box on the cover. Consistent with this theme are the four helpful sections inside: 1) "Project and Site Preparation," which covers conception, design, and obtaining endorsements and reviews. 2) "Choosing the Right Tools and Materials" discusses press releases, creative promotion ideas, making your book signing an EVENT, developing a speaking platform, and online promotion. 3) "Finding the Right Subcontractors" deals with publicists, using radio, and how to market to libraries. 4) "Executing Your Plan" delivers success stories and final words of encouragement.

Author Carmen Leal expertly addresses issues for both self-published authors as well as traditionally-published authors. I am amazed at the number of resources and websites she includes in this book. Get your highlighter ready, because you'll need it to mark all the great ideas in YOU CAN MARKET YOUR BOOK!

~Kimn Swenson Gollnick, coauthor of GETTING YOUR FINANCIAL HOUSE IN ORDER (Broadman & Holman, September 2003)

Carmen Leal did a super job on YOU CAN MARKET YOUR BOOK. Lifting the cover is like opening a book full of chocolate. YUMMY! Every kind of filling you could dream of--practical advice, tangible examples, input from additional experts, and so much more. With Carmen's A-Z approach to marketing your book, it's a delectable resource that you'll want to savor and return to again and again.