Loving this podcast about working with bookstores from NovelMarketing.com — Seriously worth 17 minutes of your time to give it a listen! Our thanks to book publicist Lynda Bouchard for bringing it to our attention.Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:40 — 32.4MB)
Some say bookstores are only interested in promoting the best-selling authors. While that’s not true, getting their focus will take some tricks and techniques. In this episode, Novel Marketing covers five keys to working with book stores, getting the attention of those physical, walk-in bookstores.
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Awesome advice about airports, especially since I’ll be travelling in a few months. Question? How does that work setting it up? I have a 2 hour layover and would love to sell and sign books for an hour.
If the store at your airport can order from your distributor, should work easily — Contact the store (one good way to find ’em is through the American Booksellers dbase or through our Winner Circle) – Contact them with your idea – some will do their own placard/promo, but typically nice to have one of your own (i.e. laminated w/ a built-in easel) you can bring w/ you… Let us know how it goes!
Really good advice in this podcast, especially to do impromptu book signings at airports when traveling (using Twitter to get the word out) and going into non-traditional book stores such as airport bookstores, spas, hotels and other places that sell books and talk to the manager.
Yeah! I loved their discussion of non-trad outlets… Thanks for weighing in, Deb 🙂