Publicity tips for book authors

Quick links to posts about online networking and publicity for writers and book authors

Previously posted on Treated & Released

Part 1: Online social networking for authors

Part 2: Special online social networks for authors

Part 3: Managing your online identities

Part 4: Launching a book’s website

Part 5: Starting an author’s blog

Part 6: Book reviewers on the Web

Part 7: Free publicity for book authors

Part 8: Book video trailers

Interview Part 1 and Part 2: Sheila Clover English, Circle of Seven Productions

Guest blogger Sheila Clover English: What is the benefit of using a book video?

Author interview podcasts and Author interview videos

FREE ebooks

A list of FREE ebooks about book marketing

Get the definition of platform

Capturing the attention of a book publisher

Six ways to satisfy your yearning for publication

Flash

Five bloggers who landed book deals

Facebook groups for writers

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Elsewhere on the Web

Got all that? Dennis Cass, the author of Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain, is feeling the pressure too:

Get Known Before the Book Deal, by Christina Katz, offers authors advice on building their platforms.

Steve Weber’s Plug Your Book! Online Book Marketing for Authors can be downloaded for free from Feedbooks.

Thriller writer J.A. Konrath is giving away The Newbie’s Guide To Publishing Book, his PDF ebook.

Yen Cheong, Assistant Director of Publicity at Viking and Penguin, posted “Promoting author events on event listing websites” and “What to include on author websites.”

The folks at Berrett-Koehler Publishers put together a thoughtful tip sheet for authors, “Social Networks and Online Affinity Groups,” and were nice enough to include a link to Treated & Released. Thanks, BK!

Internet.com (a Jupitermedia Corporation enterprise) presents “A New Chapter in Bookselling: Social Networking Sites” by Frank Fortunato.

Sheila Clover English, CEO of Circle of Seven Productions, distributes a free ebook called The Book Trailer® Revolution.

Shrinking Violet Promotions presents “An Interview with a Real Live Publicist: Random House’s Kathy Dunn.”