Book Promotions And The Christian Author

The Christian Marketplace

Promoting a Christian book can be challenging. Many sites that offer book promotions do not have the ability to promote a Christian book in the Christian Marketplace.

Christian Book Markerting offers targeted author promotions and book marketing within the Christian Marketplace through a network of christian sites that are well established and have a very large readership. Now that's good news.

For further information visit Christian Book Marketing. You can also view their network and sites at The Information Page.

Helping Authors To Promote Their Books

The Art Of Book Promotions

Promoting your books takes on a whole new world once you have published. Many authors attempt to self promote and market their books which can with lots of hard work prove to be successful. If that's you, I highly recommend that you spend some time on-line doing your homework before you start that process. At the very least, you will avoid some pitfalls while gaining lots of information. Plan on investing at least a full week educating yourself before you jump into the process.

However, many authors just don't have 5 to 6 hours each day to spend sitting at their computer online registering and joining sites and communities to attempt to create book buzz. Other times authors spend endless hours joining communities and social networks marketing their books and grow tired of the results only to end up feeling defeated.

If you are in the above frame of mind, contact Smitty at either Author Media Blogs and Book Marketing or Christian Book Marketing.


Carolyn Howard-Johnson

"I've worked with Smitty as a guest blogger. He always goes the extra mile or kilometer as the case may be and his caring attitude toward his clients is evident." ~ Carolyn Howard-Johnson, multi award-winning author

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Kaylin McFarren, Author

I recently had the opportunity to work with Smitty in regard to marketing my new release, Flaherty's Crossing. All I can say is every dollar has been well-spent. He is incredibly detailed, professional, and caring. My name, book, and trailer have appeared on hundreds of sites and the exposure has been unbelievable. As a direct result of his tremendous efforts, Flaherty's Crossing has become one of the hottest and most ordered items at Champagne Books.

I truly can't recommend anyone more highly.

Kaylin McFarren, Author
Flaherty's Crossing, Now Available
Kaylin McFarren
Flaherty's Crossing

Something Of Interest

Award-winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball have never met. In fact they live on different continents. But that hasn't stopped them from collaborating on a series of poetry chapbooks designed to replace trite greeting cards with real sentiment. With their 'celebration series', the two have developed a new concept for inexpensive holiday gifts.

Their chapbooks of poetry include Cherished Pulse (for anyone you love) with artwork from California artist Vicki Thomas, and She Wore Emerald Then (for mothers on your gift list) with photographs by May Lattanzio. A new booklet titled Imagining the future will be released over the next few weeks in time for Father's Day 2010, with further books for women everywhere, and there is a Christmas chapbook in the works.

The small books, a tradition in the poetry world since Elizabethan times, are priced to compete with greeting cards and provide real poems, designed, for the same price as a high end card, to go far beyond the cliché sentiments in most greeting cards.

Now both of these poets' collaborations, Cherished Pulse, and She Wore Emerald Then, have been released on the high profile Smashwords.com site, and can be read in over nine digital formats on any computer or portable reading device anywhere in the world. Smashwords unique technology allows the work to be available into every format used by the millions of new e-book readers that are flooding the market. Even as the hardware and software change, the author's words will remain available to readers. This is quite a revolution for both authors, both of whom started their writing careers when the latest technology was a typewriter and carbon paper for copies.

Magdalena Ball runs the highly respected compulsivereader.com review site. She is the author of the poetry book Repulsion Thrust, which was published in December 2009 to unanimous 5-star reviews. Her novel Sleep Before Evening, published in 2007, was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's poetry appears frequently in review journals. She is listed in Poets & Writers and her chapbook of poetry, Tracings (www.budurl.com/CarolynsTracings ), was given the Award of Excellence by the Military Writers Society of America. She is also an award-winning novelist and short story writer and instructor for UCLA Extension Writers' Program.

For more information on any of the chapbooks in this poetry series, contact either of the authors or visit media rooms at www.howtodoitfrugally.com or www.magdalenaball.com.