Promote That Book!
Posted By Lillian Cauldwell on May 29, 2009
Lillian Cauldwell, Author, Owner of Passionate Internet Voices Talk Radio
by Lillian Cauldwell
Copyright © 2009 Lillian Cauldwell
Three sneaker sleuths find Jefferson Davis’ lost gold treasure with help from a disembodied Black fist and divining rods.
Move over Nancy Drew, there’s a new girl in town.
Welcome to L S Cauldwell’s world of book promotion. It doesn’t matter whether it’s fiction or non-fiction, the author’s job once their book is finished is to promote that book to the public, to the media and to the world.
You start by introducing yourself. Hello! My name is L S Cauldwell. I recently wrote a multi-cultural paranormal book for young adults. The title of the book is The Anna Mae Mysteries-The Golden Treasure. It was released by StarPublishLLC in late October, 2008. Its target audience is nine to thirteen year olds.
The MidWest Book Review had this to say about The Anna Mae Mysteries-The Golden Treasure.
“…a multi-cultural mystery for young adults. Twelve year old Anna Mae Botts, her eight year old brother Malcolm, and Anna Mae’s best friend Raul Garcia encounter a ghostly black fist on their fist day of school. It drops paper clues about Jefferson Davis’ lost Civil War treasure, and later a school fire occurs. Paranormal events multiply, and the young people are led along the same trail that Jefferson Davis once took with his god-laden wagon train. A fascinating story of uncovering history’s secrets as well as hidden wealth, The Anna Mae Mysteries-The Golden Treasure is a welcome addition to young adult library collections.”
The first step in promoting your book is: a) make it into a movie; b) put it into ebook format; c) get a blog; and d) start promoting it one year before its release date. I hope you picked (d).
A preliminary sweep of the well-known book reviewers tells the author when they want to see your book for review. Read their guidelines. Submit your book three to four months before publication. Please submit two copies of your ARC’s (advance review copies), galley proofs, and no edit copies. Look for the name of the editors that you need to email or mail your material(s). Other information requested might be: price, ISBN, (age level of readers in years, not in school grades), page count, and publication month.
A brief cover letter should be included with this information. If you’re submitting an audio book, find out if it’s the same editor to send the material to or if you should send it to a separate editor with a separate cover letter.
Some reviewers may request two book copies when it’s released by the publisher.
Always query individual reviewers first before sending your material. Book reviewers are like publishers: they like to see a professional product. They also may remember you and do a second or even a third book review based on your previous actions.
Authors, remember: Start at the very beginning. It’s a very good place to start.
Anna Mae Mysteries - The Golden Treasureby L.S. CauldwellThree ‘tween sneaker sleuths face the unsolved mystery of Jefferson Davis’lost gold treasure with a little bit of help from a ghostly black fist and divining rods. Twelve-year-old Anna Mae Botts, her eight-year-old brother Malcolm, and Anna Mae’s best friend Raul Garcia, face a ghostly black fist on their first day of school. It blocks their entrance into school, while dropping paper clues about Jefferson Davis’ lost Civil War gold. Things get more complicated when a school fire occurs. Mysterious events soon overtake Raul, Malcolm, and Anna Mae at school as well as at home. Rats, alphabet noodle clues, floating chalk, and phantom false-bottom wagons lead the tweens to travel the same route by car that was taken by Jefferson Davis and his gold-laden wagon train. With divining rods given to her by her granma, computer printouts, and Spirit Journey memories that take her back to a Civil War past, Anna Mae, Raul, and Malcolm find Jefferson Davis’ lost gold treasure, part of it buried on Chennault Plantation and more of it in a vacant lot on the outskirts of Warthen, Georgia. |
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Ms. Cauldwell has written a very good book. I recommend it for any preteen that is into mysteries. The reaserch is very well done and well documented.
I second that. Reading the first Anna Mae mystery was a real treat, and I’m waiting to see what’s in store for her and Raul next!
This sounds like it would be a fun movie, too! What a great premise. You hooked me with the few paragraphs included in this article. I like the ending quote about starting at the beginning. That seems so obvious, but is so often overlooked.
Ann C.
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