Marketing Ops, Radio Shows, & Fr*E eCourses

Greetings Readers,

I've accumulated a few more notes of interest I'd like to pass along to you -- some of these events are time sensitive, so don't miss these great opportunities!

Enjoy!


Book Marketing with Fran

On Book Marketing with Fran the guest will be Betty Jo Tucker, a film critic and author [show date: Tuesday, April 18, 2006]

Book Marketing with Fran airs live on Tuesday, noon to 1 p.m. (MST); 11 .a.m., (PST), 1 p.m. (CST) and 2 p.m. (EST). During Daylight Savings Time, the show airs at 11 a.m. in Arizona, which does not change its clock. Archives are available 10 minutes after the show.

For more information: http://www.achieveradio.com On left side, click "Shows, Hosts and Schedules" and scroll down to Fran's Show.

Upcoming guests through May:

25-Apr: Marja McGraw (Humor)
2-May: Lynn Holson (Sexual Assault and Attempted Suicide)
9-May: Kate Stormer (Children's Books)
16-May: Larry Portzine (Bookstore Tourism)
23-May: Vicky DeCoster (Humor)
30-May: Nancy Lee (Spirituality)

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Fr*E Marketing Seminar

John Kremer will be doing a free teleseminar on marketing novels and will be talking about marketing novels (and much info that applies to other books as well), taking questions, and providing some really great new marketing tips.

Marketing Novels Teleseminar will be held Thursday, April 20th, at 7:00 p.m. Central time (5:00 p.m. Pacific,.6:00 p.m. Mountain, and 8:00 p.m. Eastern)

To sign up for the teleseminar and get the phone number and PIN, go to http://www.promoteyournovel.com

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Call for entries: USABookNews.com Best Book Awards 2006

For more info, see http://www.USABookNews.com for more complete information!

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Author 101 University: May 18 in Washington D.C.

This is the place to be if you're an author, publisher or aspiring author. You'll hear top publishing and marketing experts reveal tools and techniques to get your book published and double or triple your income as an author or publisher.

Mark Victor Hansen will be the MC of the event. Mark has sold over 100 million 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' books with Jack Canfield!

They will also have five other speakers and a Publishing Panel of publishers, agents, and editors that you can meet and talk with. The registration also fee entitles participants to attend the after-event cocktail party that offers participants the opportunity to meet and network with the speakers at the event plus the industry experts from the Publishing Panel and all the other attendees.

For more info: http://www.author101university.com/register.html

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Free 5-part eCourse: "How to Create a Best-selling Book Design from the Inside Out"

Topics covered:

* Create a Professional-looking and Eye-catching Book Cover
* Polish Your Interior with These Proven Typesetting Techniques
* 5 Ways to Add Eye Appeal to Your Page Layouts
* Use the Proper File Formats for Your Graphics
* Convert Your Page Layout Files into the PDF Format

The eCourse consists of 5 emails delivered automatically, 2 days apart. Each email is one lesson concentrating on one specific topic of book design. There are no pop quizzes, tests or essays in this eCourse.

More info at: http://www.macgraphics.net/free-book-design-ecourse.php

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Now available from Inara Press

Installment I: THROUGH THE WORLDGATE

Raven's been dead a long time. He's a vampire, a war hero, and a legend. He's an agent with what, for him, started out as a pretty easy assignment. But now things have changed and he has to start following the rules. He's not good at following the rules.

Valerie Winn is a young agent on her first assignment. She has a lot to learn about being a field agent, and about the undead legend she's assigned to help. For what it's worth, she's a lot better at following the rules than Raven is.

But both have something to learn about the heart. The heart makes its own rules.

More Information: http://www.inarapress.com


And remember, if you want your news posted here, just shoot me an email to dehannabailee at yahoo.com [no spaces] -- and put "News" in the subject line if you would please!

Monterey Shorts 2: More in the Line -- Best Book Nomination!

Monterey Shorts 2: More on the Line in the Running for Foreword Magazine's 2005 Best Book of the Year

The little-known Fiction Writers of the Monterey Peninsula (FWOMP) are taking on the literary world. Their latest title, Monterey Shorts 2: More on the Line, has been nominated by Foreword Magazine as a 2005 Best Book of the Year finalist. Competition includes such luminaries as Oxford University Press and Texas Tech University Press. "It's an honor for our self-publishing effort to be mentioned in the same breath with some of the big boys," says FWOMP chairman and co-founder Byron Merritt.

The book, one of nine finalists, was selected from over 1,540 entries in the 2005 "Anthologies" category. Winning titles will be announced during a ceremony at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on Friday, May 19th, 2006 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.

This is the second such recognition for FWOMP, as they were chosen as a finalist in the USABOOKNEWS.com Best Books of 2005.

Monterey Shorts 2: More on the Line is FWOMP's second anthology. It contains twenty short works of fiction by the ten-member group, all of them set in and around Monterey Bay. Their first collection, Monterey Shorts, was released in October 2002 and has gone onto its second printing. That anthology contains ten fictional short stories which also take place in the region.

By doubling the amount of included stories and including improved graphics, Monterey Shorts 2 ups the ante significantly over its predecessor. The book is a familiar sight in Monterey-area bookstores and was the "#5 Local Bestseller" the week of June 5th, 2005 according to the Monterey County Herald.

Interested parties can meet the FWOMP authors at area events, including Pacific Grove, California's "Good Old Days".

For information: http://www.fwomp.com

Lightning, Stars, & Awakenings

Hello Readers,

I'd like to pass along a few items of interest that have crossed my desk in the last week or so--most notably this first one which I've been waiting for since the outcome could have affected many of us independent and self-published authors who utilize Lightning Source as our printer:


Lightning Source wins ODMC court case

LaVergne, TN - Lightning Source Inc., a division of Ingram Industries Inc. and the leading provider of demand-based book manufacturing and distribution solutions to the book industry, learned today that it has prevailed after successfully appealing a patent infringement lawsuit.

Lightning Source was informed that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the St. Louis District Court judgment of infringement and vacated the damages award. The opinion was unanimous in finding that "no reasonable jury could find infringement on the correct claim construction." No payment will be required for alleged damages cited in the lawsuit, originally filed by the On Demand Machine Corporation.

For the Full Press Release, visit: http://www.lightningsource.com

Recent News from NUW (Not the Usual Way)

Mary Emma Allen Writes Blogs for b5media.com -- Mary Emma Allen has been invited to write two blogs for b5media.com, one about quilting and the other on Alzheimer's.

For the full story, click LINK: http://www.nuwnews.blogspot.com

Star Publish Purchases JADA Press

A new day in publishing has arrived. Star Publish has acquired JADA Press. With this acquisition comes a strong new force in publishing. In order to preserve the legacies of both Star Publish and JADA Press, the name of the company has been changed from Star Publish to JadaStar.

LINK: For more information, visit JadaStar at http://starpublish.com

Looking for a Little Help in the Writing Department?

The Long Story Short School of Writing is going strong. Our teachers are highly qualified. One-on-one teacher/student relationships are what make this school so special. Each lesson is personally critiqued by the instructor and enables the student to make improvements in their writing skills. Classes range from beginner to advanced.

LINK: http://www.LssWritingSchool.com

New from Inara Press

Installment I: AWAKENINGS

Jay Frances can raise the dead. One touch is all it takes to restore life to even long-since cold flesh. Jay has always considered this ability more of a curse than a gift -- that is, until the night he finds JoBeth Montgomery brutally murdered in a darkened stairwell and resurrects her.

LINK: http://www.inarapress.com

And remember, if you have news that you'd like me to post, send a short blurb or press release to dehannabailee @ yahoo.com (no spaces). Please put "Publishing News" in the subject line.