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Right now, you can pick up a copy of my humor book, Musings on Minutiae, for just $8.50 through my publisher, LuLu.com!
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Q: Weston, do you ever stop giving?
A: Yes, after the holidays are over and that warm tingly feeling flutters out of my bones.
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!
If that special someone is or will be the proud owner of an Amazon Kindle, I want to remind you that you can download Musings on Minutiae for just $0.99!
Q: What’s better than the gift of laughter this Holiday season?
A: Paying off a friend’s debt!
A2: MUSINGS ON MINUTIAE!
Also, I’m planning to release a new book in 2012, so get the first book now so that you can say “I read his first book. It was better than this one.”
Happy Holidays!
Greetings!
Tomorrow at 12:00pm EST, tune into the Authors Read program on BlogTalkRadio to hear me read a couple of hilarious essays from my book, Musings on Minutiae.
Which essays will I be reading? Tune in to find out!
Sadly, the Authors Read podcast is coming to an end, so I will be their second to last guest. I promise you that me being a guest has nothing to do with them closing their doors. Over the years they’ve had myriad great authors read from their books on air, so I’m happy to be able to join their club if only for a few hours.
To hear the live broadcast (and to support the show), listen online at blogtalkradio.com/authorsread.
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The fine folks over at the official BlogTalkRadio Blog picked up on the article I recently published about promoting and marketing your book using their broadcasting service.
Hopefully this helps other authors find the resource and everyone realizes how great a tool BTR is.
They had some nice things to say about the article and I appreciate them taking the time to feature it.
Click here to read their blog entry.
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During the process of releasing my humor book, Musings on Minutiae, I did a ton of research on how to market it and find a readership. I read a lot of great books on the subject and what felt like a million websites trying to absorb as much as I could on the process.
What I realized is that while there are a ton of ideas out there, a lot of them are just rehashes of one another, and many marketing techniques require quite a bit of money that most authors do not seem to have just laying around.
I decided to write a series of articles about my personal experience with marketing my own book which will detail techniques that have worked for me and led to sales of my title. My word is by no means professional or the best advice, but what works for one person typically works for another.
Over the last couple months, I published articles about promoting on Goodreads.com, Shelfari.com, and Paperbackswap.com.
The latest addition, Promoting Your Book Online Through BlogTalkRadio, is now available for your reading pleasure.
More articles to come in this series! If you have suggestions or feedback on any of them, let me know. I promise I’m not like that one guy you work with who just doesn’t want to hear it!
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I’m not sure where the time goes anymore. Is this a side effect of getting older?
The rest of my night will be spent searching the internet for schematics to a Time Machine that I can construct in my garage.
A few months back I mentioned plans for another book to follow 2009′s Musings on Minutiae. New material has slowly been making it’s way from my brain to the computer screen, so here’s the latest update:
May Word Count: 17,800
Current Word Count as of July 1st: 20,100
Difference: 2,300
Final Goal: 60,000
Words Remaining: 39,900
In addition to being a guest on several book-related podcasts and spending a ton of time in May and June working on music for my band’s new album, I also got some reading in:
Books Read in May & June:
- Writer’s Market Guide to Getting Published (Edited) by Writer’s Digest Books
- A Writer’s Space by Eric Maisel
- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
- The Well-Fed Self-Publisher by Peter Bowerman
- Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing (Edited) by Ian Frazier
- On Writing by Stephen King
- The Well-Fed Writer by Peter Bowerman
- Kick Me by Paul Feig
You can read my reviews of these titles at Goodreads.com.
Remember, Musings on Minutiae is still available for your Kindle for just $0.99!
Enjoy your summer and be sure to stay inside the air conditioning. If your father won’t let you get air conditioning, then just move in with a friend who has it.
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