Promo Day 2019 Presenter Krysten Lindsay Hager

Introducing Promo Day 2019 presenter Krysten Lindsay Hager

Krysten Lindsay Hager writes about friendship, self-esteem, fitting in, frenemies, crushes, fame, first loves, and values. She is the author of True Colors, Best Friends...Forever?, Next Door to a Star,  Landry in Like, Competing with the Star, Dating the It Guy, and Can Dreams Come True? True Colors, won the Readers Favorite award for best preteen book and the Dayton Book Expo Bestseller Award for childen/teens. Competing with the Star is a Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist.

Krysten's work has been featured in USA Today, The Flint Journal, the Grand Haven Tribune, the Beavercreek Current, the Bellbrook Times, Springfield News-Sun, Grand Blanc View, Dayton Daily News and on the talk show Living Dayton.

Connect with Krysten:

WEBSITE: http://www.krystenlindsay.com/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/krystenlindsay/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/KrystenLindsay

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/KrystenLindsayHagerAuthor

PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.com/krystenlindsay/

AMAZON:https://www.amazon.com/Krysten-Lindsay-Hager/e/B00L2JC9P2/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1518310668&sr=8-1

Webinar topic: Tips for Making an Author Website 

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Webinar: Help! My Book Isn't Selling. Should I Give Up? by Penny Sansevieri

Webinar: Help! My Book Isn't Selling. Should I Give Up? 

Presenter: Penny Sansevieri

About the webinar:

It’s hard to know when it’s time to give up or keep pushing, and in a world where there are 4,500 books published each day, it's easy to get lost in the flood of titles that hit Amazon. So what's an eager author to do? Well, before you give up - let's look at 9 things that could be wrong and how to fix them.

In this session we'll look at specific issues that seem to plague some books that just aren't moving the needle.

Here are a few of the things we’ll look at:

• Marketing – are you doing enough of the right things? I’ll show you how to know what you should be doing and give yourself your very own marketing grade.
• Cover – do you know if your cover is strong enough for the genre?
• Reviews – do you have enough? How to get more reviews even if your book is over a year old.
• Is your book to old? Does it matter to your reader?

About Penny Sansevieri:

Penny Sansevieri, CEO and founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc. (AME) and Adjunct Professor at NYU, is a best-selling author and internationally recognized book marketing and media relations expert. 

 

Penny's company is one of the leaders in the publishing industry and has developed some of the most cutting-edge book marketing campaigns. Penny has owned and operated  Author Marketing Experts, Inc.,for 16 years and she also has published 14 books, including How to Sell Your Books by the Truckload on Amazon and Red Hot Internet Publicity, which has been called the "leading guide to everything Internet." Her company, AME, has been featured in numerous media outlets such as InTouch Weekly, Fox News, The Huffington Post, BlogHer, Entrepreneur, Publishers Weekly and much more!

Connect with Penny:

Website: https://www.amarketingexpert.com/

Facebook: facebook.com/bookmarketingame

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bookgal

Register now for Promo Day 2017 for access to the forums where you'll find all the webinars, pitch sessions, giveaways, and loads of opportunities to promote and network on Saturday 6th May 2017 

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Jenny McKinney To Present Webinar at #PromoDay2016

Jenny McKinney returns to Promo Day again this year. On Saturday 14th May she'll be presenting a webinar "Tips For Working with a Publisher". Her company Cedar Loft Publishing is also the sponsor of this years event. 

Bio

Jenny McKinney retired from a successful IT career in the corporate world to launch her writing career and Cedar Loft Publishing. She writes both fiction and nonfiction books. She feels she has finally found her calling and through her writing and publishing company has an opportunity to help others make their dreams come true. When she isn’t working, she enjoys reading, traveling with her husband, or just sitting on the front porch listening to the sounds of nature and looking at the beautiful mountains that surround their home.

Webinar outline:

Tips to Impress a Publisher.

Do you want to land a publishing contract? Listen to this webinar for some tips for presenting your best self and work to a publisher. Publishers are in the business of publishing books and make a profit. To make this happen, they have some very strict guidelines for the work they accept. In this webinar, you’ll learn some of these guidelines. 

Connect with Jenny

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/cedarloftpublishing/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cedar_loft

Web site: www.clpublishing.net

Register now for access to all the webinars, pitch sessions, and opportunities available during the Promo Day event.

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Gail Yancosek to Present Webinar at #‎PromoDay2016‬

Bio:

Gail is an Emmy award-winning television producer, writer and executive with more than 35 years of experience in the development and production of television programming and the management of major broadcast operations.

As President of Gail Yancosek Consulting she continues work in the corporate world training executives, spokespeople and authors for on-camera appearances. Along with her partners Carol Anne Riddell and Susan Iger, GYC produces digital conversations and long-form videos for authors and publishers, leaders in the pet industry, health care industry, and in theatre and the arts. 

She also serves as Executive in Charge of Production for CUNY TV, handling the development and production of both new and established shows for the station.

As Vice President and Executive Producer at Fox 5 NY for the live, early morning broadcast “Good Day New York” and its related programs in the 1990’s, she was responsible for the daily show’s rank as the #1 morning show in the New York market.

Gail earned a BA from Fordham University, has several EmmyTM nominations and awards to her credit.

Links:

Website: http://gailyancosekconsulting.com/

Outline of webinar:

I’m sure you’ve all heard the expression that a picture is worth a thousand words…in fact, that platitude has been bouncing around the US press ever since the 1920’s.

While the concept doesn’t necessarily warm itself to the hearts of great authors and writers, we will illustrate in our fifteen minutes of fame…how the use of succinct and meaningful video can enhance and endear writers to their readers... to their publishers... and even to those all-important producers at those morning talk shows!!

Gail Yancosek Consulting produces videos with authors speaking to an established journalist that live on the authors’ websites and can be used for countless promotional opportunities.  For the readers, these videos add a human face to the emotional connection they already have to their favorite authors and favorite books.  For the publishers, the videos offer reasonably priced digital branded content that sells books.  And for the morning show producers looking for fun and interesting folks to fill their airtime, the videos offer a look at how well an author relates to the camera.

Inherent in the production of these videos, is the all-important component of media training.  For writers and authors, the ability to respond quickly and succinctly to any on-air question is priceless.

We will outline and explain the various aspects of how to achieve these goals, the necessary components of the video, various ways of producing them and how to use them and who to send them to.

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Clay Gilbert To Present Webinar At #PromoDay2016

Clay Gilbert returns to present Getting Your Manuscript In Shape for Submission during the Promo Day 2016 event on Saturday 14th May.

Bio:

Clay Gilbert has been hearing the voices of aliens, vampires, and people from the future since about the age of four.  It wasn't long before he started to think taking notes on what they said might be a good idea.  This has led him many places—through the halls and classrooms of many schools, where he's been both in front of the teacher's desk and behind it, himself—to presenter's podiums at conventions, and, most often, to the comfortable chair behind his writing desk at home, where he uses his Dell computer as both a beacon and a translator for the voices that still find their way through from countless worlds and planes of existence. Clay is the author of Annah: Children of Evohe, Book One, Dark Road to Paradise, and Eternity, as well as the Chief Editor for PDMI Publishing.  These days, the place he calls home is Knoxville, Tennessee, where his cat, Bella, and his ball python, Andy, keep him company between visits from a teenaged alien named Annah, an undead, blood-drinking English professor named Martin Cabot, and a boy from the future named Eternity.  And it's a good thing, too—life is busy.  And Clay's still taking notes.

Social media links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claygil2015

Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Clay-Gilbert/e/B00BS1N1W4

Author blog: https://portalsandpathways.wordpress.com/

Official “Children of Evohe” novel series website: http://childrenofevohe.com/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6952531.Clay_Gilbert

Twitter: @ClayGilbert1

Out of the webinar:

Overview: So You Think You’re Ready To Publish—Let’s See

1)     What Do Editors—and Audiences—Look For? Does My Manuscript Have It?

a)     Completed manuscript—captivating opening, satisfying story development, compelling wrap-up and ending

b)     Well-developed and interesting characters—the character determines the events; the character compels the reader

c)     Internal logic—does everything make sense?

d)     Fresh ideas—or at least a new spin on old archetypes or classic situations

2)     Assessing Your Draft—Ready—Set—Go?

a)     Don’t submit a first draft.  Let it sit; get some distance.

b)     Polish—if it’ll shine up a car, it’ll shine up your story

c)     Revise—sometimes the BEST way to say something isn’t the first way we think of    

3)  It’s a Pitch, but Is It a Hit?  Learning how to Shape Your Submission

a)     Importance of a synopsis—be able to boil down your book into a paragraph summary.  Your reader—and your editor—only have so much time.  Put the best points of your book forward.

Summation: Once you’ve dealt with these aspects of polishing and packaging your work, you’re ready to submit—and hopefully, to publish!

Register now for access to all the webinars

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