Book Marketing 101

By Lawrence J. King

Book Review and Book Store Description:
Book Marketing 101 for writers and published authors is an awesome book full of interesting and beneficial facts designed to help writers and published authors become successful.
Larry King demonstrates his own personal step by step proven marketing strategies to ensure positive results in the realm of becomming a successful published author.
This book will be a valuuable tool and reference point to those of you who want to become a well established published author.
Almost anyone can become a published author these days, however not everyone can become a best selling author.
Lawrence J. King illustrates page after page of successful book marketing tips and pointers that will guide the published author in the direction of focus, determination, and a straight forward goal oriented book marketing specialist to ensure countless numbers of book sales and the happy ever after best selling published author success story.
Rose C. Nardi, Vice President Peoples Bank

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477142509

Lawrence J. King

LAWRENCE J. KING is a U.S. Army Veteran who lived in Europe from 1979 - 1994. During those years he was a martial arts instructor teaching Tae Kwon Do, the Korean style of self defense to the men and women of the armed forces.Mr.King has an associates degree in computer graphics.He is the author of a book called What The Hell Were You Thinking? It is a collection of key life experiences and reflections with an emphasis on a Buddhist approach to life.His latest book is Hate and Discrimination in America, which is about politically correct and politically incorrect topics that address the issues of Hate and Discrimination in this country.Larry King has three DVDs on the market including " Way of the Feet and Hands", "Ancient Secrets Revealed", and "American Biker". In the Ancient Secrets Revealed and Way of the Feet and Hands DVDs, Mr King shares his talents and highlights martial arts topics from his days as a global award winning martial arts instructor.He is also the author of a DVD called American Biker which is a documentation and slide show about the biker way of life.Mr. King currently works in the mental health field, helping people who are mentally and physically challenged cope with everyday life.Making his home in Boulder,Colorado, since 2006, Mr. King also writes for a website called Boulderspace.org

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Copyright © 2012 by Lawrence J. King.

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Library of Congress Control Number:       2012912592

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4771-4249-3

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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted

in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This book has not been edited by a professional editor per say because I wanted to show how difficult it is to be a writer, it takes hard work and dedication, not to mention the fact that mistakes such as spelling errors, proper grammar and punctuation problems are a part of a writers

everyday life.

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Contents

Introduction

Becoming a Writer

Helpful Tips

Becoming a Paid Writer

Becoming a Published Author

Having Your Manuscript Published

Book Cover Designer and Editor

Website Marketing

Boulder Book Store

Social Media Outlets

Press Release Mountain Ear Newspaper Nederland Colorado

Press Release Boulder Writers Group Boulder Colorado

Official Book Signing Event

My First Book

Email Your Friends

Local Book Store

My Publishing Company

Café Sole

Logan’s Espresso Café

Marketing Specialist

Mother Earth Gallery

RECORDED BOOK SALES

Recorded Book and DVD Sales

POSTERS, POST CARDS, BOOK MARKERS, BUSINESS CARDS

Craigslist & E-bay Internet Service

Asking Permission

Local Coffee Shops

Valuable Information

Color Coding Labels

Downtown Pedestrian Pathways.

Churches

Local Library

Arts and Crafts Shows

Book Launch Projects

YouTube

Speak Your Book into Existence

Farmers Market

Buzz Coffee

Radio Shows

Indoor and Outdoor Locations

VIC’S COFFEE

The Agony of Defeat

Lyons, Colorado

Boulder Colorado

Selling My Books

The Thrill of Victory

Conclusion

Success Story

Author Biography

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all of the would be authors in the world out there who want to become a published author.

Hopefully this book will inspire you to accomplish that goal.

I want to thank everyone who has purchased my books along the way, without you this particular book would not have been possible.

—Lawrence J. King

Introduction

This book is dedicated to those of you out there in the world who always say I’m going to write a book and become an author someday.

Good Luck with that endeavor. You might want to get on that project A.S.A.P. so you can make your dreams come true.

Quit talking about it and get it done, time waits for no one, and most of all don’t stop believing in yourself.

Lawrence J. King is an Eight-Time Internationally known Published Author, Motivational Speaker, and Radio Talk Show Host among other things.

In the hopes of benefitting writers and published authors everywhere I decided to put together Book Marketing 101 to assist you in the process of successfully being able to market your books once they have been officially published.

This book can be utilized by the hobby author that is simply trying to sell a book or two here and there.

This book will also benefit the serious professional published author who is all about marketing his or her book accordingly to boost book sales and create some cash flow.

I’ve conducted my own personal experiments on how to market my published books and have achieved some amazing results.

I have outlined some step by step proven methods and techniques that have been tried and tested in reference to generating book sales and how to go about generating those book sales throughout this book.

I personally utilized these very same techniques to get the desired result and have sold many books using my own techniques.

You can also apply these proven methods and techniques and by doing so you will become a confirmed successful published author and book marketing sales person.

Your ultimate goal is to generate book sales on a daily basis.

This book will assist you in that endeavor.

Good Luck in your never ending quest of becoming a best selling author, that process will take a lot of patience and a lot of hard work to accomplish that goal, but hopefully with the instructions that I have illustrated in this book you will become the published author book marketing specialist in no time at all.

The messages in all of Lawrence J King’s books are in fact inspirational, educational, and motivational which lead up to one simple concept.

Never Quit, Never Give Up, and always follow your dreams.

No matter what comes your way, be all that you can be each and every day because yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not promised, and so all you basically have is the right here, right now moment to get it done.

All it takes is willpower, determination, focus, discipline, a lot of hands on hard work, and the true desire to achieve your goals.

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Becoming a Writer

It’s easier said than done.

It takes a lot of hard work to accomplish that task.

You must work at this process each and every day.

I’ve understood that in order for you to become a writer you have to set aside a specific time slot each day to work on your writing career.

If you work that time slot into your day as opposed to when I get around to it then you will achieve your goal.

I am an eight-time internationally known published author and so I know by first-hand experience what it takes to become a writer and to be sure don’t kid yourself because becoming a writer takes a lot of focus and discipline not to mention the fact a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice in order for you to accomplish that goal.

Becoming a writer is one thing, but becoming a published author is completely a horse of a different color.

So ask yourself do I have what it takes to stay the course?

If the answer is no then don’t quit your day job.

If the answer is yes then tap into your creative side and write your little heart out, proceed forward in swiftness as if there is no tomorrow, and in time you to will become an accomplished writer and published author.

Helpful Tips

You can gradually establish yourself as being a published writer by sending in your short stories or articles to the open forum section of various newspapers around the country.

That is how I started out and thirty of my articles were in fact published around the country in various newspapers, magazines, and newsletters which gave me the idea for my first book called What the Hell Were You Thinking?

I took that concept and applied about 90% of my already publish articles from all of the various newspapers and magazines that had chosen to publish my work and put those articles into a book format thus basically creating my very first book called What The Hell Were You Thinking?

I was very excited to see my first book in print.

I purchased my first book from the local book store and autographed it to myself.

Needless to say once my 1st book was officially autographed and in my hand so to speak I went walking around town smiling and feeling good, it felt like I was on top of the world.

Becoming a Paid Writer

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