Promo Day Success Stories: Bet You Didn't Think MS Could Look This Good

Every year during the Promo Day event, a group of publishers take part in pitch sessions. These publishers are on the look out for talented authors with the right manuscript. 

How the pitch sessions work:

1) Participating publishers post their submission guidelines to the event forums.

2) Registered Promo Day attendees can then send them their pitch.

3) The publishers send back a reply THE SAME DAY. That's right, no waiting weeks, months, or even years for a reply. They let you know during the event if they are interested or not.

4) If the publisher is interested they will then guide you through the next steps in the process.

Promo Day Success Stories

Today I wanted to share with you one of the pitch session success stories.

Author Lisa A. Baeringer pitched her idea to publisher Cedar Loft Publishing during the 2015 event. Her book Bet You Didn't Think MS Could Look This Good: Ramblings of a Medicated Mind was released October 2016 (purchase now at: http://amzn.to/2eSoU3i). 

Ms Baeringer had this to say "Promo Day is an excellent event to participate in. My manuscript was picked up by Cedar Loft Publishing during this event. It's full of wonderful advice and information concerning the publishing trade. Promo Day offered me the opportunity to get my writing career off the ground."

About the book:

Lisa had a good life; married to her high school sweetheart, two handsome sons, and a nice home. Quite literally, in the blink of an eye, her whole world turned upside down. Sickness began to not only ravage her body, but also her world. In her own words, taken from her private journal, she takes you through what daily life is like when you have a seriously incurable, chronic illness. It gets even more complicated when the illness she was told she had turns out to be something else, something rare and possibly even fatal.

Cedar Loft Publishing CEO/Executive Editor, Jenny McKinney, said "Taking pitches for new books during Promo Day has been an amazing experience for Cedar Loft Publishing. We were able to sign a new author, Lisa Baeringer, and publish her book, Bet You Didn't Think MS Could Look This Good. Her book has the potential to become a best seller and we couldn't be happier."

Are you an author with a manuscript to pitch? Register now to attend the 2017 event. It's FREE!

Are you a Publisher and interested in taking pitches during the 2017 event on Saturday 6th May? Email PromoDay@ymail.com for more information

Do you have your own Promo Day Success Story to tell? Email PromoDay@ymail.com and let us know the details.

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Cedar Loft Publishing Company Profile

Today's post is brought to you by #PromoDay2016 sponsor Cedar Loft Publishing.

We aren’t the biggest, just the best at making dreams come true!

Our Mission

Your book is your creation, a part of you, so we strive:

• to treat your creation with the love and respect it deserves,
• to be an author’s publishing company first and foremost,
• to work with authors until their manuscript is polished to perfection and then published,
• to help authors reach their dream of being a published author,
• to be there for you every step of the way,
• and much, much more!

Our Company

Nestled in the beautiful mountains of eastern West Virginia sits a cedar log cabin surrounded by mountain laurel, cedar trees, and Mother Nature. Within this cabin is a loft that Cedar Loft Publishing calls home. This loft is where our home office is located. Our are team members are either volunteers or freelancers located in various parts of the United States and are in constant contact with the home office via technology.

Cedar Loft Publishing, formerly Cedar Loft Productions, is a division of J & P Enterprises, LLC and has been in business since 2013, publishing books and making writer’s dreams come true.

Cedar Loft Publishing is a traditional publishing company designed for its authors and we will make every effort to put the author’s interests first. When we partner with an author, that author can rest assured their manuscript will get the personalized attention it deserves and every effort will be made to assure a quality book results.

Our founder and CEO/Executive Editor, Jenny McKinney says, “Everyone who has the desire to be a published author should have the opportunity to publish quality work!”

We do just that! All our books are professionally edited and receive a professional cover design and formatting assuring our authors of a quality finished book they can be proud to sign. We also work one-on-one to help the author market their finished book. While we expect books to be professionally edited prior to submission, we will offer our authors a discount on our professional editing services.

Submissions are always open and we welcome all genres. We recently started publishing children’s books under our brand, Lil Butterfly books.

At this time, we only publish work written in English by authors located in the United States of America.

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Books by Cedar Loft Publishing

Today's post is brought to you by #PromoDay2016 sponsor Cedar Loft Publishing.

Cedar Loft Publishing has several books published and many more to be released this year and next. Please help our authors by buying their print books or e-books and leaving a review. All books are available on Amazon and we hope to have them in retail stores soon.

Our books in print and e-book format

Puck’s Choice – Book 1 in the Shifters & Mages series by Skye Hegyes

As it is Written – Book 1 in the Happily Never After series by T.L. Jones

Alphabetical Attraction a poetry book by T. L. Jones

The Orphan by A.E. Crowe

Grave Vengeance: Esther’s Story by J. Thayer McKinney

Haunting of LaBelle: Back to Hell by J. Thayer McKinney

Bizarre Tales of Horror an anthology by various authors

Our books to be released in 2016

Jenna’s Story – Book 2 in the Shifters & Mages series by Skye Hegyes

Symon Says – Book 2 in the Happily Never After series by T.L. Jones

Symon Says a children’s book by T.L. Jones

These Cast Away Stones by Justin Hunter

Realm of Evil by J. Thayer McKinney

Bet You Didn’t Think MS Could Look This Good an autobiography by Lisa Baeringer

Feels Good Flows Good a Feng Shui book by Kerri Miller

Calm Down, Monsters a children’s book by Katelyn Cummings

Daddy’s Little Princess a children’s book by Steve Proutsos, illustrated by Dan DiVenti

The Adventures of Pugley Bear…Home Sweet Home a children’s book by Sol Regwan

Tobisaurus Rex a children’s story by Tim Havens

Our books to be released in 2017

Devon: Prince of Evil by Ursula

Reiki Training by J. Thayer McKinney

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Cedar Loft Publishing Marketing Strategies

Today's post is brought to you by #PromoDay2016 sponsor Cedar Loft Publishing.

As you’re probably aware, we are a small press working as a traditional book publisher. We have been in business for three years and are just now getting known in the book world. Our marketing team is working to attract retail book stores to stock our books and this is looking very promising. We are currently in the process of applying to Barnes and Noble and hope to soon have a working relationship with them. We will also be looking into Books a Million along with several independent book stores in various locations. This takes time but we are now in a position with our business to work with these stores.

We are working with a marketing consultant to enhance our marketing strategies and develop our approaches to the book stores. In addition, we are creating a company blog where we will feature our authors and their books along with writer tips.

We will be attending book fairs in future so all our books will get exposure at those.

We list books in the Library of Congress Online Catalog so they are available to libraries and schools. Our books are also listed in Books in Print.

As soon as a book is released, it will be made available to most online books stores and will be displayed on their web sites. It will also be available for order at retail bricks and mortar book stores whether or not they stock it.

Our books will also be listed on our Facebook business page, Twitter, and in our catalog on our web site.

We expect our authors to market their books and we have marketing packages available for authors to purchase.

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Cedar Loft Publishing to Take Pitches at #PromoDay2016

Cedar Loft Publishing have confirmed that they will be taking pitch sessions at this years Promo Day event on Saturday 14th May.

You can find out more about the publishing company on their website http://clpublishing.net/

They accept:

1. Fiction and non-fiction book submissions (must be at least 40,000 words)

2. Short story collections (must have at least 6 short stories)

3. Single short story submissions are welcome if they can be developed to at least 40,000 words

4. Poetry book submissions should have at least 25 poems (50+ very short poems)

At this time, they only accept submissions in English language from authors in the United States of America

To pitch Cedar Loft Publishing during the Promo Day event you must be registered in the event forums. There you will find full details of how to pitch the publisher.

They will get back to you the same day to let you know if they are interested or not. 

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