Book Webcasts

In the last post we looked at creating a webcast event.

Now question number 1 is “If I am writing a book what do I create an event on?”

Here is a short list:

• An event to create buzz for your book
• Doing a virtual book tour
• Showing how you came up with the book
• Relating to current events

Here is a video where Isabolla Jade explains how she created some buzz and generated some press coverage.

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It has been a long break on holidays and now it’s time to get things going.

If you have been on a bit of a vacation as well (for real or mentally) it’s a good time to make things happen and start the ball rolling again.

So to get us back in the spirit of promoting our book(s) and building a readership, here is a link to some free pdf ebooks on creating a webcast event.

http://free-books-online.net/Event-Webcasting-pdf

Then we will look at webcasting as a powerful book marketing tool.

On the next blog I will show you how this applies to book promotion and audience generating.

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Bernie

Just a quick post as we are getting ready to move.

If you are looking for ideas to giveaway at a book fair, signing or convention to promote your book, go to the RT Book Reviews Forum.

Some obvious and some unique ideas in the post as well as in the comments.

Have any ideas of your own you’d like to share? Please comment

If you are a self-published author and I ask you if you have a fear about doing a live webcast, what goes through your creative mind?

Most writers I speak with love the idea of doing a live webcast. However, 2 fears raise their ugly destructive heads.

What is he so excited about? What's in that box?

• What if I fumble and look foolish? How will I appear to my audience? (And many other thoughts that I am sure would be the basis for a horror-comedy novel. These are writers!). And…
• What if no one attends?

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