Responses for ~ Linda's "Marketing with the Big Shots"

Linda, it just goes to show---Big Money talks, in this case famous authors and celebrities. It's difficult to compete with them. Your experience confirms what I have heard from other unknown authors and that is to avoid participating in book fairs if they sound too promising. After all, who is going to buy a book from Linda-who? or Pauline-who? when Grisham, Baldacci, Steele and other famous authors are in the front row?

Thanks for your article, Linda. Sounds like you had a good time, in spite of a lighter wallet.

Pauline Hager
www.ilovetoreadbooks.com
Email_address: pauline@thehagers.org

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Hi Linda,

I guess for us, it's more about nitch marketing and local events. That seems to work for me, but I\'m still looking for that magic bulllet!

I did a book talk presentation last month at our local bookstore, Book Revue, and sold 25 copies that night, but the store takes 40% of the sale price (and I had to work to get my 60% as they usually do a 50-50 split).

I have managaed to get one corporate sponsorship for Tick Tock, Stop the Clock, so next I am going to put some energey into this route. I'm still on a learning curve and hopefully one day I will get this thing right!

Hope you are well and happily writing more great stories for kids.

Very best,
Lois W. Stern
Author of Sex, Lies and Cosmetic Surgery
and
Tick Tock, Stop the Clock
Email_address: cosmeticsurgery@optonline.net

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Hello, Linda!

Thanks for the quick education on Book Fairs, your appraisal most honest and direct. The more I read about ways for unknowns to sell books, the greater becomes my wonderment as to why we have the audacity to go on writing them. Oh yes, I forgot! - no matter how discouraged any one of us becomes, there comes that day - after the last promotional or writing failure - when we just have to get that next story off our chest (like a bad cold) and thus give birth to another volume that screams "Sell me, if you MUST!" Well, in any event, Linda, from what you have told us, my next choice for a sales or promo venue won't be at a Book Fair; unless it\'s free, held on the street outside my front door, and my car is safely parked in my own garage.

Richard Ide

Author, 3 ACES
www.richardide.com
Email_address: buttontop@epix.net

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