Promo Day 2018: An Event Not To Be Missed

Mark your calendar!

Promo Day 2018 will take place on Saturday 5th May.

What is Promo Day?

Welcome back to Promo Day for another great year! We're in our 11th year and we're making things better all the time. This year's event will provide you with all of the great speakers and content you've come to expect from Promo Day. There'll be plenty of time to spend with the Promo Day community too through social media parties and other events. 

A conference for creatives of every kind, Promo Day will inspire and empower you to reach your book marketing goals. Not only will there be a range of high quality webinars and workshops being run, there will be giveaways and prizes provided by our gracious sponsors!

This website, and the forums where the event takes place, are both mobile friendly so you can pick which device is most comfortable for you. Use your computer, tablet, or phone to join in the event from your home, office, or anywhere with an internet connection. 

Who should take part?

Writers, Authors, PR companies, Publishers, Editors, Book Cover Designers, Illustrators, Book Reviewers, Book Bloggers, and anyone else interested in books and marketing.

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LIVE Panel Discussion: Connecting With Readers at #‎PromoDay2016‬

LIVE Panel Discussion: Connecting with Readers

7am EDT/ 1pm CET Saturday 14th May 2016

Guests: Virginia Jennings and Stacey Keith

During this panel discussion we will discuss both online and offline ways authors can connect with readers. 

Virginia Jennings:

When V.L. Jennings isn't traveling to other worlds through her imagination, she calls Dillon, South Carolina her home. Her book, "The Alien Mind," is a science fiction novel published by PDMI Publishing, LLC and is also the recipient of the Readers Favorite Five Star Review Award. Her second title, "Visionary From The Stars" is expected to be re-released through PDMI as well, in 2016. V.L. Jennings has also illustrated a children's book for PDMI, titled "Wiggle Worm's Shape Adventures," written by Karen and Kathy Sills.

But what motivates Virginia to create, to illustrate, to prognosticate? Virginia is a speculator, the kind of person who always debates the "what if?" of where stories both true and fantastical are leading themselves to, which explains her love of post-apocalyptic fare such as "The Walking Dead." Through her writing, she enjoys trying to figure out what our human potential is, and where our innate desire for a better world could lead us.

Overall, Virginia is just about as real as a person can get. Yes, even authors love to sing along with their favorite local radio station while driving, and Virginia is no exception to this rule. She enjoys watching Doctor Who or Star Trek with her family over dinner, and also watching the latest sci-fi and action movies with her husband. On the weekends, you may even find Virginia and her family at the local comic book store, hunting down more comics to add to their collections.

V.L. Jennings spends her free time writing flash fiction on her blog and working towards her Associates Degree in Electronics Engineering. You can find out more about V.L. Jennings at www.virginialorijennings.com

Stacey Keith:

Writing under various pseudonyms, Stacey Keith is a multi-award-winning author of Warner Books' popular self-help book, DRIVE YOUR WOMAN WILD IN BED. In her previous incarnation as a men's magazine model, she was the most photographed cover girl and centerfold of the mid 1990s, a notoriety she parlayed into B-movie roles, Feature Performances, and days off to perfect her writing. She has been seen on over twenty talk shows, including "Montel Williams", "Real Personal with Bob Berkowitz", "Geraldo Rivera", and "Joan Rivers".

Her fiction career has encompassed two Golden Heart finals, a Maggie, two Silver Quills, a Jasmine, a Heart of the Rockies, and over fifteen other first-place wins in Romance Writers of America contests. Her most recent work of erotic fiction, CARNAL SACRIFICE, written under the name Angelika Helsing, is available online or in paperback.

An avid writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories, Stacey has a predilection for the offbeat, the bizarre, and “anti-June Cleaver” heroines. She doesn’t own a television, but reads compulsively—and would, in fact, go stark raving bonkers without books, of which there are many. She now lives in Calcata, a small medieval village in Italy that sits atop a cliff overlooking the Treja Valley. An artists’ colony that even the locals refer to as paese di fricchettoni, or “village of freaks,” Calcata is home to eccentrics, painters, musicians, and writers of all nationalities in addition to some pretty adorable kitties.

http://www.angelikahelsing.com/

http://www.strippeddownthebook.com/

The replay of the panel discussion will be available all day long in the forums so if you can't tune in for the live chat you can still watch it and interact with the guests and other attendees.

Register now!

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Full List of FREE Webinars at #PromoDay2016

A whole day of free webinars!

When you register for the Promo Day event you get access to the forums where the main action takes place. This includes access to all the free webinars.

11 webinars by industry experts on a variety of topics related to book marketing, author branding, and editing. All the webinars are available for the duration of the event to give you time to watch them all. That's right, a full 24 hours of free webinars!

Register now and join in the fun!

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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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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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Emily la Grange to Present Webinar at #PromoDay2016

I'm pleased to announce that Emily La Grange has joined the presenter line up for this years Promo Day event on 14th May. Emily will be presenting a webinar about Online Branding.

Bio: 

Emily is the author and creator of www.EmilylaGrange.com. She's been working from home since her children were born (>10 years). She's also a blogger and marketing coach to work-from-home mompreneurs and has a passion for social media, design and building relationships. Emily loves to empower others by sharing simple tips and step by step tutorials to brand themselves beautifully and ROCK their business online!

Links:

http://www.emilylagrange.com/

http://facebook.com/iEmilylaGrange

http://twitter.com/EmilylaGrange

http://pinterest.com/iEmilylaGrange

http://instagram.com/EmilylaGrange

https://plus.google.com/+EmilylaGrange/posts

http://youtube.com/EmilylaGrangeTV

http://linkedin.com/in/iEmilylaGrange

Outline of webinar:

Branding is not just for businesses. Your personal brand goes way further than your logo or font. It's how you are perceived by every interaction people have with you. This is a good thing, because it means you have the power to create your own authentic personal brand.

In this training learn how to manage the way you're perceived. Emily will walk through the basics of defining and growing your personal brand, including establishing your personal style, building a consistent online identity and creating content.

With some focused action and the right marketing strategies anyone can stand out in the marketplace and attract their ideal audience.

Emily's training will cover:

- How do you want to be perceived?

- Know your audience

- Building a consistent online identity

- Establishing your personal style

- Creating content

Register now

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#PD15 Webinar: "Marketing for Authors" with Jenny McKinney

Presenter:

Jenny McKinney

Presentation title: 

Marketing for Authors

Presentation outline:

1.    Why market

2.    I’m a writer, not a salesperson

3.    What works and what doesn’t

4.    The dreaded marketing plan

5.    When should I begin marketing

6.    Wrap up

Presenter Bio:

A published author and the CEO/Executive Editor at Cedar Loft Productions. CLP was born just 2 years ago after much research and contemplation. All team members are currently volunteers and we have a few contracted individuals that we call on from time to time. All our authors are considered our friends and treated with the utmost respect. If a submitted manuscript is rejected by our submissions team, we explain exactly what needs done for the manuscript to be accepted. At this time, we only publish work written in English by authors in the USA. In time, we hope to be global but that is in the future.

Connect with Jenny:

https://cedarloftproductions.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cedar-Loft-Productions/709416242403172

https://twitter.com/cedarloft2015

All webinars are free to all attendees, and are available for the entire day on Saturday 30th May during the Promo Day event. Click "Register Now" above for access to this, and all the other webinars. You'll also have access to the pitch sessions with Publishers, and all the other activities and opportunities that PD15 offers.

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