I have some interesting blog posts lined up for you. But today, I decided to tell you more about my latest book:
Talk Up Your Book
How to Sell Your Book Through Public Speaking, Interviews, Signings, Festivals, Conferences and More.
The thing is that personality sells books. The most powerful tool in an author’s book promotion toolkit is his or her personality. More now than ever before, readers want a relationship with authors of the books they read. Customers will purchase books by someone they know or have met. With this in mind I produced this 300-page book designed to prepare you for those public speaking engagements and casual conversations that could lead to book sales.
As new authors, few of us are comfortable speaking in public. We don’t know how to pitch our books and ask for the sale. This book is designed to help you become a stronger presenter and a more effective communicator whether you are speaking to a large group or one-on-one, whether you are in a hall, at a book festival or on the radio.
Through this book, you’ll learn how to:
• Find and create speaking opportunities at appropriate venues.
• Land speaking gigs at conferences (before dozens or hundreds of your readers).
• Handle yourself more skillfully in front of an audience.
• Improve and protect your speaking voice.
• Improve your speaking and communication skills.
• Eliminate noodle knees.
• Organize and present workshops.
• Create better handouts and use them more effectively.
• Come up with speech topics for fiction and nonfiction books.
• Attract more people to your book signings and other events.
• Form a bond with audience members.
• Write pitch letters and press releases.
• Sell more books at book festivals and other venues.
As you may know, I (Patricia Fry) am the author of nearly forty published books. Most of them relate to publishing and book promotion. I’m also a public speaker, conference workshop leader, teacher and organization leader. I’ve earned my Advanced Silver level in Toastmasters. And I typically travel throughout the US several times each year in order to speak to my readers—mainly authors.
This book also includes comments and tips from experts and professionals such as, C. Hope Clark; Brian Jud; Sandra Beckwith; Peter Bowerman; literary publicist and media coach, Kim Dower and New York Times bestselling author, Margaret Brownley, are a few.
Order Talk Up Your Book today at Amazon.com. Use quotation marks around the title when you do a search for this book at the Amazon website or use my name along with the title.
“Talk Up Your Book” or Talk Up Your Book, Patricia Fry.
It’s $19.95—but Amazon has it discounted already.