The authors of this text offer ideas for booking author events, signings, TV appearances and radio interviews, and they also show ways to capitalise on the latest promotional trends, including the World Wide Web.'
With the intention of starting a "buzz" in the industry as well as securing some advance quotes we sent bound manuscripts of Jump Start Your Book Sales (WDB/F&W) to 67 carefully selected people. Blurbs came back from 41! This may be a record in itself.
The early rave reviews came from Judith Appelbaum (How to Get Happily Published) to Dan Poynter (author of The Self-Publishing Manual), from Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. (whose Women Who Run With the Wolves was on the NYT bestseller list for almost 3 years) to Letty Cottin Pogrebin (president of The Author's Guild of America). And also from Dave Chilton (who holds the record for authoring/publishing Canada's #1 bestseller: The Wealthy Barber) to Mary Westheimer (president of the Web's largest publisher community).