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The AudioBook Wizard
Richard Rieman
Richard@TheAudiobookWizard.com
https://audiobookwizard.shop/
Judith’s personal audiobook wizard will help you:
• Decide the best way to produce, distribute, and market your money-making audiobook in all genres
•Find a great audiobook narrator for your book
•Narrate your own book
•Create a music video promo for your book
•Create a high royalty payment audiobook version of a children’s illustrated book
Richard Rieman (Ree’ man) has narrated and produced hundreds of Indie-published audiobooks. He’s the author of the award-winning book, The Author’s Guide to Audiobook Creation.
Pro Audio Voices
Becky Parker Geist
CEO, Pro Audio Voices Inc
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415-559-9273
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Audiobook Connection podcast: Audiobook Connection: Behind the Scenes with the Creative Teams
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YouTube: Audiobook Authors YouTube channel
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MEMBER OFFER:
Free 30-45 minute strategy session
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Founded in 2013 by Becky Parker Geist, and incorporated in 2019, Pro Audio Voices Inc has team members and clients spanning the globe. The company produces audiobooks in almost any language and works closely with clients to help them reach their goals. Pro Audio Voices Inc is committed to inspiring the world through the stories we bring to life.
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Audiobook Production: Pre-production (including innovative ways to leverage your audiobook from the inside out) and casting through distribution; all genres including single narrator, author-narrated, full cast, and everything in between.
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Audiobook Marketing: several offerings including AMPlify (direct distribution of your audiobook with higher royalties and more control), Audiograms (mini videos for social media), the Audiobook Marketing Program™ (custom marketing plan, assets, a team, and more) and more.
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Podcast Production: Planning, production, and implementation, whether your audiobook as a serial podcast or a hosted ongoing podcast.
Book Designers
F + P Graphic Design
Rebecca Finkel
owner | designer
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970-223-1375
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MEMBER OFFER:
Members get 15% off eBook
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Ever judge a book by its cover? Yep. Everybody does. Why not create a cover that WOWs your readers? Then follow it up with a polished interior and superior eBook. Rebecca Finkel of F + P Graphic Design can help you meet these goals. With 25 years of book design experience, she will design a book that leaps off the shelf to your readers.
Rebecca Finkel of F + P Graphic Design offers cover, interior, and eBook design services at an affordable rate. Rebecca is regularly recognized by regional, national, and international book and eBook design organizations.
Judith Briles notes, “Rebecca is the master of creativity and delivers the art of perfection for all things in book and cover design. Authors couldn’t be in better hands.”
Visit FPGD.com to see some of her latest projects. She would be happy to start a conversation with you about your book.
NZ Graphics
Nick Zelinger
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720-560-3390
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MEMBER OFFER:
Special rates for all AuthorYOU members
Services: Book cover & interior layout, logos, graphics Specializing in design for the printing of books, catalogs, newsletters, posters, ad design, postcards, brochures, corporate identity packages and logo design.Compelling graphic design that meets your deadlines and does not blow your budget.
Special rates for all AuthorYOU members. For more information call 720-560-3390 or email: NickZelinger@gmail.com
Blue Ink
Patti Thorn
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Patricia Moosbrugger
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MEMBER OFFER:
$75.00 discount on the price of a book review. code: Briles 2
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Services: Serious reviews of independently and traditionally published books. BlueInk Reviews offers honest, unbiased book reviews. Founded by Patti Thorn, former book review editor of the Rocky Mountain News, and Patricia Moosbrugger, an internationally known literary agent, BlueInk offers reviews penned by professional critics and writers whose bylines have appeared in major newspapers such as the New York Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, senior level editors from major New York publishing houses and prominent blogs.
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Completed reviews run on the BlueInk website and in Ingram databases. Select reviews appear in Booklist magazine, read by more than 60,000 librarians, Shelf Magazine, Goodreads, BlueInk social media sites and other venues.
AuthorYOU members get a $75.00 discount on the price of a book review. To activate the discount use “key code” AUTHORU during the purchase process.
Book Reviews
Book Life
A BookLife Review is a respectful, knowledgeable, detailed review of your book that includes a variety of marketing insights and critical assessments, all crafted by a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer who’s an expert in your genre or field. The mission of BookLife Reviews is to support indie authors through one of the most challenging parts of self-publishing: marketing the finished book. An honest and detailed 300-word review from BookLife Reviews highlights your book’s strengths and analyzes its potential for reaching an audience while giving you a valuable assessment of ways that future editions or future books can be made even better. Marketing insights help you target promotional efforts to the readers who are most likely to enjoy your book, and the review is designed to provide accurate, positive quotes and a pithy one-sentence takeaway aimed directly at the book’s best audience. For just $399, you’re guaranteed to receive a review within six weeks (four weeks for an additional expediting fee). Marketing can be complicated and daunting; a BookLife Review will help to guide you through.
Foreword Reviews
www.forewordreviews.com/awards/
MEMBER OFFER:
Free 1-year subscription to Foreword Magazine (contact Foreword reviews directly to start subscription).
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Foreword Reviews is a Folio Award-winning magazine, and the only journal exclusively dedicated to reviewing books from independent publishers, university presses, and self-publishers. Each issue features 150+ book reviews, in-depth articles previewing category trends, book-industry specific opinion pieces, and bound special sections covering award winners, audiobooks, and more.
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Its Foreword Indies Book Awards are the premier attention getter for independently published authors and publishers.
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VIP AuthorYOU Members get a free 1-year subscription to Foreword Magazine. You must contact Foreword Reviews directly to start your free subscription.
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15% off website ads and FTW ads.
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15% off Clarion Reviews
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15% off Trade shows
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15% off Subscription Renewals.
Midwest Book Review
Since 1976, Midwest Book Review has been committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. The MBR publishes the following monthly book review magazines specifically designed for community and academic librarians, booksellers, and the general reading public:
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Internet Bookwatch (a compilation of The Bookwatch, Library Bookwatch, and Wisconsin Bookwatch)
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MBR Bookwatch (reviews by senior volunteer reviewers)
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Reviewer’s Bookwatch (reviews by all other volunteer reviewers)
Reviews are posted on the Internet with a number of thematically appropriate websites, databases, and online discussion groups such as alt.books.reviews. Our reviews are also available through Internet bookstores. Midwest archives all reviews on the Midwest Book Review website for a minimum of five years.
The Book Shepherd
Services: Author/Book coaching and shepherding, Author Success workshops.
Congratulations … your book is the start of something big. The Book Shepherd’s forte is strategic planning, creating the Author’s Platform, book development and creating the right habits that overcome fear and lethargy that are common in the publishing process. Judith offers professional consulting services associated with all aspects of publishing—self, independent and traditional—and project management services for independent publishers.
As The Book Shepherd, she delivers all-day Author Success workshops under the Unplugged umbrella: Book Publishing Unplugged, Book Marketing & Social Media Unplugged, and Speaking Unplugged. Her How to Create an Amazon Bestseller that is presented four times a year has achieved 100% success for all participants.
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Join for the Author Friendly Friday online coaching offered from 7 am to 8 am MT HERE: https://thebookshepherd.com/author-friendly-fridays/
Kitchen Table Writing
Anne Randolph
303-758-3426
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Need to Loosed up your writing? Personal, Memoir, or Business? looking for a fresh way to quickly grasp new ideas? write freely? stimulate your inspiration!
Try Kitchen Table Writing Workshop with expert Writing Muse, Anne Randolph. Work on your novel, fresh writing, or write marketing copy. Learn techniques to write freely. Stimulate ideas. Learn to create swiftly. Kitchen Table Writing and Write Your Life Story become a safe place to experiment with your writing, get inspiration, and take your creativity to a new level.
Haven Books Consulting
Mara Purl
445 East Cheyenne Mountain Blvd., Suite 279,
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
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719-227-1629
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You’ve always wanted to write a book . . . or two or three? You don’t how to start?
Or . . . you’re an accomplished author looking to focus your brand and create dynamic marketing? You’re a playwright ready to launch your production on stage or as an audio drama? We love authors and believe in supporting authorship as a calling!
Haven Books is an author and publishing consulting service located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Los Angeles, California. To visit our current and previous clients, click here: https://havenbooks.net/authors/author-clients/
At Haven Books, we do “synergy publishing”—pulling together a team to fully realize your marketing plan whether you are indie-published, or traditionally published. We don’t use the term “self” publishing, because when you hire an expert you have gone beyond “self.” We do not offer any “off the rack” publishing-packages. Instead, think of us as a contour boutique who listens carefully to your goals, then creates a tailored plan to help you fulfill your author dream.
We work with non-fiction and fiction authors. We can see you through the entire process, first draft through published work. Or we can help you with specific segments.
Services Include:
Writing: Specific author coaching including story structure, narrative voice, dialogue, story arcs, and character development; genre research and protocols; editing
Publishing & Marketing: Branding & Author Platform, website core concepts, cover concepts, blog structure & outlining, blog tour design, newsletter design, Pinterest concepts, FaceBook pages, Twitter campaigns.
Bowker and MyIdentifiers for Authors and Indie Publishing
Bowker's My Identifiers ​
ISBNs are essential for books. All books should one that is unique to their publishing efforts. In the United States, Bowker is the only authorized dealer. Oh, you can get them via Amazon, Book Baby, Lulu, IngramSpark, and a number of other publishing related sites. BUT, they all get them through Bowker and either resell or offer the “grab to an author or other entity as an incentive to work with them. Amazon offers them as a freebie. And even if you ID yourself with your own publishing name, the dark side is that it is really under Amazon’s (or whoever you got the ISBN from) umbrella. AuthorU’s advice: own your own.
You can buy a single for $125, 10 for $295, 100 For $575, or greater amounts in the thousands.
Recommendation: get at least TEN … you will need one for you paper edition; one for eBook; and a third for audio. With the AuthorU discount, you will save 15%.
Authors have access to getting a 15% discount by using our special code: AUTHORU2026.
If you are the publisher. and you find an error in any of the product details related to your book, please provide Bowker via the MyIdentifiers.com portal any updated information.
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Set up an account on MyIdentifiers.com. It is free. Once you are in your account on My Identifiers: Select the "My Account" link and click on "My Identifiers" in the menu. You can use your MyIdentifiers.com or BowkerLink username and password to sign-in. The page that opens up will be a dashboard of all your ISBNs. You may navigate to your ISBN by clicking on the title, or search for your specific ISBN in search at the bottom of the page by ISBN-13 format.
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Make sure you complete the forms to add a description of your book, author bio, upload front cover, ISBN for all formats—digital and audio if appropriate. Include publication month and price of book.
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This information will now be available whenever a bookstore looks up your book with the ISBN # for ordering.
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F + P Graphic Design
Rebecca Finkel
owner | designer
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970-223-1375
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MEMBER OFFER:
Members get 10% off eBook
code: Briles 5
eBooks don't HAVE to be ugly! Rebecca Finkel of F + P Graphic Design can help you meet these goals. With 25 years of book design experience, she will design an eBook that leaps off the shelf to your readers.
Rebecca Finkel of F + P Graphic Design offers cover, interior, and eBook design services at an affordable rate. Rebecca is regularly recognized by regional, national, and international book and eBook design organizations.
Judith Briles notes, “Rebecca is the master of creativity and delivers the art of perfection for all things in book and cover design. Authors couldn’t be in better hands.”
Visit FPGD.com to see some of her latest projects. She would be happy to start a conversation with you about your book.
Edit Partner
Barb Wilson
owner and CEO
2226 Rudy Court Midland, MI 48642
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989-284-8769 (EST)
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MEMBER OFFER:
Members get 10% off editing services
code: Briles 6
Every Book Needs An Editor
Barb Wilson is the owner and CEO of EditPartner.com. With over thirty years of experience in editing/proofreading, she has edited numerous books in all genres, from nonfiction to children’s stories to erotica.
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She specializes in developmental (content) edits and also offers additional services such as manuscript critiquing and evaluation. Her enthusiasm for the craft of writing and her positive approach to working through obstacles like writer’s block, POV problems, head-hopping, and plot arc issues will help you complete your project—while having less stress and more fun!
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Check out her web page at EditPartner.com to see the variety of services currently offered. She can combine multiple services, and customize them to fit your particular project needs. Editing doesn’t need to be a painful, drawn-out process—her long list of repeat clients can attest to that!
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Services: Currently offering content editing for fiction and non-fiction. Barb specializes in enhancing the flow, clarity, and power of your work, ensuring no reader will want to put it down. She believes a great editor/author relationship is based on collaboration, communication, and respect. Ask about a free sample edit.
Help-U-Write
Help-U-Write offers “Editing and Proofreading” as a package service, although they are really two different processes.
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Editing serves a very useful purpose. It’s essential for the indie author of today. Sometimes you will have used “jargon” or “slang” that is very familiar to you because you use it daily, but it is unfamiliar to your audience. At times, an event needs more explanation because it is unique to a particular locale. Occasionally, we will even suggest that you present the ideas in a slightly different order so that it will be easier for the reader to understand your meaning. At all times in the editing process, we suggest changes….it is up to you whether you wish to follow the suggestions or go a different direction.
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Editing and Proofreading can be billed by the job or by the hour, depending on the length or difficulty of the manuscript. For short pieces, we usually charge by the hour.
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If you’re interested in talking with us about editing or proofreading your manuscript, please email us at info@help-u-write.com. Write “Editing” in the subject line.`
Don Sidle Illustration
Services: Your One-Stop Shopping for cartoons, illustrations, drawings, logos, graphics, or if you need a fresh art tweak—just about any artwork you will need. We love to create fun art, serious art, and cartoons—we believe that we can find a creative solution to any graphic dilemma. Detailed, realistic drawings in a variety of mediums: graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, or pen and ink. Look through the website at https://DonSidle.com/or call 303-521-6268 to get your project off the ground or rescue it.
bublish
Kathy Meis
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MEMBER OFFER:
Members get 10% off
code: Briles 8
Bublish is a publishing technology company that offers cloud-based tools, metrics and resources to equip today’s business-savvy authors for success. An innovative, award-winning platform, Bublish empowers “authorpreneurs” by providing a complete social marketing and digital publishing solution. Launched at Book Expo America in June of 2012, Bublish is changing the way writers share their stories and reach their readers. Thousands of authors around the world use Bublish to promote their work and build their brand. www.bublish.com
Take advantage of one of the hottest ways to build buzz around your book—it’s Book Bubbles. AuthorU Gold members get a discount from the annual membership. Watch your social media Klout build and visitors finding you. The result: sales.
Expert Click
Mitchell Davis
mitchell.davis@expertclick.com
202-333-5000
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MEMBER OFFER:
Members get 15% discount
code: Briles 9
Are You Ready to Grab the Media’s Attention? Are you an Expert? If you are an AUTHOR, you are! Use the ExpertClick system to get known; to get called; and to send out your own press releases in a nationwide distribution. Link your blog that will in turn sent it to the press distribution channels. Use the ExpertClick press room to choose among 39 topics that link tens of thousands of other news releases to your press room, and then link them to promote your website. Discover how to Use PR to Boost Your SEO and Get Found Online as an Expert, starting now! Call Mitchell Davis at 202-333-5000 or email him at Mitchell.Davis@ExpertClick.com and position yourself in the media’s eye.
Storiad is ideal for authors actively developing a comprehensive, long-lasting digital book marketing campaign to promote one or more of your books to gain exposure, reviews, and sales.It offers authors the opportunity to design, build and manage a book promotion campaign that addresses each of the challenges authors face as they seek to gain attention, review and sales for their books.
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Customized AI
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Book Campaign Organizer
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Customizable Author Website to use as a Landing Page for your promotions.
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Marketing Plan Wizard
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Market Research Support
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Book Industry Influencer Contacts Database
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Email Integration Platform
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Public Profile Author Page
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Live Tech Support
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Live Book Market Strategy Support
Publisher Rocket
Publisher Rocket is a slick tool for social media digging into keywords for your book; identifying categories you that you will use ongoing with any marketing relating pushes using Amazon. From keywords to a TRULY deep dive into the Amazon categories for BOTH Books and eBooks. Love it. www.PublisherRocket.com
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Use this link to get it—worth every penny in time and value.
Get it here: https://publisherrocket.com/?affiliate=judith
Book Brush
Book Brush is the AUTHOR’S website to go to for so, so much. Design ideas, a great series of videos and tools created just for authors and books. Build influence. Create posters to use for promo and your website. www.BookBrush.com​
Use this link to get it—worth every penny in time and value.
If you upgrade, use the code: Judith/15 … it knocks off 15%
Mockup Shots
Mockup Shots add a gazillion book covers or products covers into your account. With seconds, you have a marketing and advertising inventory that you would have paid thousands to have created. www.Mockupshots.com​
Use this link to get it—worth every penny in time and value.
Here's the link: https://www.adazing.com/briles/
Author Headshots
Author HeadShots is a tool to quickly create many, many headshots in a variety of settings and wardrobes in just minutes. With Author Headshots' brand-new "Book-in-Hand" feature, you can instantly create professional, realistic images of yourself proudly holding your book. And you don't need to hire a photographer for the job. www.Authorheadshots.com​
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Book launch announcements
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Book signing graphics
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Email newsletters
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Social media posts and ads
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Your website
Use this link to get it—worth every penny in time and value.
Here's the link: https://authorheadshots.com/discount/?orid=254909
Stratira
Stratira takes your book and creates an entire customized marketing campaign in minutes. It's magic, and you've got to see it in action to really understand how insane it is. It would take an agency months and cost you thousands, but Stratira does it all in minutes. And that is just one feature. There is nothing on the market that comes close to all that Stratira does for you. www.Stratira.ai​
Here's what it does: You upload your manuscript, and in less than five minutes, It builds you a marketing system that is customized around your book.
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Companion guides
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Book club kits
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Deep-dive genre explainers
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Reader magnets
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Amazon A+ content
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Social posts tailored to your characters and themes
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Email campaigns written and sequenced
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Outreach emails for podcasts and influencers
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Book review graphics
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Launch campaigns
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Social calendars
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Ad creatives
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Blog posts built around what your readers are searching for on Google
Use this link to get it—worth every penny in time and value.
Here's the link: https://stratira.ai/what-do-you-write/?orid=254909
Authors in Grocery Stores
Authors in Grocery Stores …
Get YOU and your BOOKS featured in grocery stores.
Discover the secret sauce that many authors are using to connect with their local communities and sell more books. It all happens in a Kroger affiliated grocery store … over 25 states covered in the Authors in Grocery Stores Program!
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Do you want to sell more books?
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Become part of an alternative why to sell your books with a twist.
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All book sales are paid with 10 days.
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Discover another alternative portal to sell your books.
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Annual membership cost is $100 – if you join now, you will get a $25 discount. Use code JUDITH25
The Authors in Grocery Stores program is available in half the states in the US … that is if you are working within the portal that 220 authors are using, selling over 30,000 books and retaining 62 percent of the retail book price.
Here’s a replay link of a webinar on it that Judith Briles did: https://vimeo.com/1176893354
Your takeaways include:
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How to take advantage of Special Displays in stores.
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How to coattail on ongoing seasonal activities to sell more books.
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Why it makes dollars and sense to add grocery stores to your book marketing mix.
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How to get an invite to feature you and your book(s).
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Musts haves for a grocery signing event.
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How to create your author book selling tour.
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How you get paid and how often.
Join now …
Sign up: www.AuthorsInGroceryStores.com
Save $25 on your annual membership
USE Promo Code: JUDITH25
Questions? Contact Ray Depew
Contact: GroceryAuthors@gmail.com or 845-699-6664
Color House Graphics
Sandy Gould
616-241-1916 ext.1916
800-454-1916 ext. 242
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MEMBER OFFER:
Members save 5% on new print orders
code: Briles 10
Where trust, technology and experience come together.
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Color House Graphics is a nationwide printing and book manufacturing company that provides digital and offset printing, eBook conversions, and custom binding and finishing. With quick response manufacturing and personalized service, you will quickly learn that CHG is your go-to manufacturer for all of your production needs. Visit colorhousegraphics.com and request a quote for your next project.
Friesens America
From humble beginnings in 1907, we’ve grown into the premier short-run book manufacturer and packaging specialist in Canada. We’re proud to produce amazing print and packaging for top publishers, schools, and manufacturers around the world. We maintain the most efficient cost structure through ongoing staff education, lean work practices, and fast turnaround.
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Friesens’ commitment to the environment is built around making the best use of all our resources and minimizing our ecological footprint. We use our resources as carefully as possible – reusing and recycling whatever we can. Any waste that leaves our plant is recycled in such a manner that it can be used again.
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Any printer can put ink on paper, but the employee-owners at Friesens are committed to the craft of building amazing books.
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We serve the needs of publishers across North America using the latest equipment operated by a highly skilled team of prepress, press, and bindery experts. Given our location at the heart of the continent, we are well-positioned to deliver exceptional quality short-run projects throughout the USA and Canada.
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Our employee-owners are ready to serve you with the passion and commitment that only an owner can provide.
Total Printing Systems
Total Printing Systems is committed to pushing technology further, utilizing the strengths of technology and combining those strengths with over 25 years of experience in the book manufacturing industry. The result of this combination of technology and experience has brought Total Printing Systems to the forefront of the digital book manufacturing industry. In 1997, our company was one of the first book manufacturers to utilize CTP (computer-to-plate) technology. In 1998, we were among the first printing companies to launch a fully interactive website that allowed complete and immediate project pricing. Today we are at it again. Total Printing Systems is the first book manufacturer in the world to install the new Scitex VersaMark digital web press. This exciting new technology allows our company to offer unparalleled flexibility and capacity along with an economical price. The VersaMark has variable cutoff and allows a number of different sizes of web rolls. This flexibility allows us to manufacture just about any trim size with little waste and offer some of the most competitive prices available.
The Book Shepherd
Services: Author/Book coaching and shepherding, Author Success workshops.
Congratulations … your book is the start of something big. The Book Shepherd’s forte is strategic planning, creating the Author’s Platform, book development and creating the right habits that overcome fear and lethargy that are common in the publishing process. Judith offers professional consulting services associated with all aspects of publishing—self, independent and traditional—and project management services for independent publishers.
As The Book Shepherd, she delivers all-day Author Success workshops under the Unplugged umbrella: Book Publishing Unplugged, Book Marketing & Social Media Unplugged, and Speaking Unplugged. Her How to Create an Amazon Bestseller that is presented four times a year has achieved 100% success for all participants.
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Join for the Author Friendly Friday online coaching offered from 7 am to 8 am MT HERE: https://thebookshepherd.com/author-friendly-fridays/
Haven Books Consulting
Mara Purl
445 East Cheyenne Mountain Blvd., Suite 279,
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
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719-227-1629
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You’ve always wanted to write a book . . . or two or three? You don’t how to start?
Or . . . you’re an accomplished author looking to focus your brand and create dynamic marketing? You’re a playwright ready to launch your production on stage or as an audio drama? We love authors and believe in supporting authorship as a calling!
Haven Books is an author and publishing consulting service located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Los Angeles, California. To visit our current and previous clients, click here: https://havenbooks.net/authors/author-clients/
At Haven Books, we do “synergy publishing”—pulling together a team to fully realize your marketing plan whether you are indie-published, or traditionally published. We don’t use the term “self” publishing, because when you hire an expert you have gone beyond “self.” We do not offer any “off the rack” publishing-packages. Instead, think of us as a contour boutique who listens carefully to your goals, then creates a tailored plan to help you fulfill your author dream.
We work with non-fiction and fiction authors. We can see you through the entire process, first draft through published work. Or we can help you with specific segments.
Services Include:
Writing: Specific author coaching including story structure, narrative voice, dialogue, story arcs, and character development; genre research and protocols; editing
Publishing & Marketing: Branding & Author Platform, website core concepts, cover concepts, blog structure & outlining, blog tour design, newsletter design, Pinterest concepts, FaceBook pages, Twitter campaigns.
Virtual Assistance and Computer First Aid
Author’s Virtual Assistant
Do you suffer from author and publishing overwhelm? Do you struggle with social media and email marketing? Do you need help? The Author’s Virtual Assistant will me your relief.
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What Can Your Author’s Virtual Assistant Do for You?
· Manage your Social Media Platforms: Including, but not limited to—posting and scheduling content, finding graphics, inspirational quotes, hashtags, create online posters, or help you generate ideas for growing your social media presence.
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· Help you Build and Manage Amazon Bestseller Campaigns: Take the Book Shepherd’s “Become an Amazon Bestseller” 4-Week course that is scheduled every three months. Once your dates are set, I work with you to create special social media posters, push them out, and monitor results.
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· Manage your Email Marketing: Help you generate ideas to grow your email list including the social media support for any Home page opt-in created and scheduling your weekly email blasts.
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· Website Maintenance: Monitoring your website for broken links and assist in making changes to your existing website, including updating images, editing, and rewriting content, bios, and profiles.
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· Manage your Product Sales System and CRM: For business clients or Authors who sell a lot of other products. Having a CRM will bring sanity into your social media posting life.
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· Reports completed tasks and updates ongoing each week to you.
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Whatever your needs are, The Book Shepherd will work with you to help make your author and publishing life easier and bring sanity and balance into your marketing and social media presence. The Author’s Virtual Assistant is your answer.
Caspicom Computer Services
Vasif Alimuradov
720-841-8694
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Mon – Fri: 8am-7pm MT
Sat: 9am-5pm MT
Sun: CALL
Do you have IT Problems? Vasif Aimuradov and Caspicom Computer Repair Services can help! Caspicom specializes in PC and Laptop repair and support for small companies and individuals in the Denver Metro Area.
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Its as-needed professional services include ongoing PC/Laptop maintenance, network setup, data backup and recovery, virus and spyware removal, software and hardware installations and upgrades, remote support, and much more.
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What’s the Caspicom difference?
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No travel fees
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Free diagnosis
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Same or next-day service
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Arrives on time
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Highly competitive rates
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7 days a week service
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No weekend or after-hours upcharges
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All 5-star Google customer ratings
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Vasif’s mission is to develop long and successful relationships by providing high-quality customer service and up-to-date technical knowledge.
F + P Graphic Design
Authors need a website to reach their audience. Rebecca Finkel of F + P Graphic Design works with you to create website promoting both you as a writer and your book. She is a creative problem solver and an inspired website designer. Ask her for a a list of the sites she's working on. She designed this website.
Visit FPGD.com to see some of her latest projects. She would be happy to start a conversation with you about your book, website, and/or eBook.
Writing Mentors
The Book Shepherd
Services: Author/Book coaching and shepherding, Author Success workshops.
Congratulations … your book is the start of something big. The Book Shepherd’s forte is strategic planning, creating the Author’s Platform, book development and creating the right habits that overcome fear and lethargy that are common in the publishing process. Judith offers professional consulting services associated with all aspects of publishing—self, independent and traditional—and project management services for independent publishers.
As The Book Shepherd, she delivers all-day Author Success workshops under the Unplugged umbrella: Book Publishing Unplugged, Book Marketing & Social Media Unplugged, and Speaking Unplugged. Her How to Create an Amazon Bestseller that is presented four times a year has achieved 100% success for all participants.
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Join for the Author Friendly Friday online coaching offered from 7 am to 8 am MT HERE: https://thebookshepherd.com/author-friendly-fridays/
Kitchen Table Writing
Anne Randolph
303-758-3426
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Need to Loosed up your writing? Personal, Memoir, or Business? looking for a fresh way to quickly grasp new ideas? write freely? stimulate your inspiration!
Try Kitchen Table Writing Workshop with expert Writing Muse, Anne Randolph. Work on your novel, fresh writing, or write marketing copy. Learn techniques to write freely. Stimulate ideas. Learn to create swiftly. Kitchen Table Writing and Write Your Life Story become a safe place to experiment with your writing, get inspiration, and take your creativity to a new level.
Haven Books Consulting
Mara Purl
445 East Cheyenne Mountain Blvd., Suite 279,
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
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719-227-1629
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You’ve always wanted to write a book . . . or two or three? You don’t how to start?
Or . . . you’re an accomplished author looking to focus your brand and create dynamic marketing? You’re a playwright ready to launch your production on stage or as an audio drama? We love authors and believe in supporting authorship as a calling!
Haven Books is an author and publishing consulting service located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Los Angeles, California. To visit our current and previous clients, click here: https://havenbooks.net/authors/author-clients/
At Haven Books, we do “synergy publishing”—pulling together a team to fully realize your marketing plan whether you are indie-published, or traditionally published. We don’t use the term “self” publishing, because when you hire an expert you have gone beyond “self.” We do not offer any “off the rack” publishing-packages. Instead, think of us as a contour boutique who listens carefully to your goals, then creates a tailored plan to help you fulfill your author dream.
We work with non-fiction and fiction authors. We can see you through the entire process, first draft through published work. Or we can help you with specific segments.
Services Include:
Writing: Specific author coaching including story structure, narrative voice, dialogue, story arcs, and character development; genre research and protocols; editing
Publishing & Marketing: Branding & Author Platform, website core concepts, cover concepts, blog structure & outlining, blog tour design, newsletter design, Pinterest concepts, FaceBook pages, Twitter campaigns.
IBPA Independent Book Publishers Association
Independent Book Publishers Association
Founded in 1983 to support independent publishers nationwide, the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) leads and serves the independent publishing community through advocacy, education, and tools for success. With over 3,500 members, IBPA is the largest publishing association in the U.S. Its vision is a world where every independent publisher has the access, knowledge, and tools needed to professionally engage in all aspects of an inclusive publishing industry. For more information, visit ibpa-online.org.
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Upon joining, you'll receive access to over a hundred benefits that are specially designed to help you thrive as a publisher, as well as tools to help you sell your books into key sales markets. These competitive advantages and benefits pay for membership and then some.
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Member benefits include:
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Effective and low-cost book marketing programs to increase exposure to consumers, bookstores, libraries, and more
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Free monthly educational webinars and six copies of our bi-monthly print magazine, IBPA Independent
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Deep discounts on essential publishing services, including IngramSpark, Kirkus Reviews, Bowker, FedEx, Publishers Weekly BookLife reviews, BookBaby, Grammarly, and more
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In-person and virtual networking with other indie publishers
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Member discount to our annual conference, IBPA Publishing University
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Access to the largest book trade shows in the world, including the American Library Association (ALA) Conference, the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and more