Comments on: Getting Listed http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/02/12/getting-listed/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:23:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Cheryl http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/02/12/getting-listed/#comment-167 Cheryl Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:53:48 +0000 http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/02/12/getting-listed/#comment-167 Thanks, Randy. I'll check out the PR sites. I understand from small talk at Love is Murder and the Joliet Authors Fair that Sisters in Crime is the place to be for me; you've just reinforced it. Yes, second mystery is done and will soon be on its way to a publisher. I've taken a small detour in the world of sci-fi (working title: GS, Obs.), then it's back to the third in the senior center series (about Des Plaines). Thanks, Randy. I’ll check out the PR sites. I understand from small talk at Love is Murder and the Joliet Authors Fair that Sisters in Crime is the place to be for me; you’ve just reinforced it. Yes, second mystery is done and will soon be on its way to a publisher. I’ve taken a small detour in the world of sci-fi (working title: GS, Obs.), then it’s back to the third in the senior center series (about Des Plaines).

]]> By: Randy Richardson http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/02/12/getting-listed/#comment-166 Randy Richardson Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:42:14 +0000 http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/02/12/getting-listed/#comment-166 One more thing ... Have you joined Sisters in Crime? They provide a lot of promotional opportunities for mystery authors. You have to join the national org (http://sistersincrime.org/) , but once you've done that you can then join the local Chicago group (http://www.sincchicago.com/index.html) and the Internet group (http://www.sinc-ic.org/index.shtml). Three possible ways to get your name out there. There's a membership fee but I think it's worth it, especially if you are going to keep writing mysteries. Randy One more thing …

Have you joined Sisters in Crime? They provide a lot of promotional opportunities for mystery authors. You have to join the national org (http://sistersincrime.org/)
, but once you’ve done that you can then join the local Chicago group (http://www.sincchicago.com/index.html)
and the Internet group (http://www.sinc-ic.org/index.shtml). Three possible ways to get your name out there. There’s a membership fee but I think it’s worth it, especially if you are going to keep writing mysteries.

Randy

]]> By: Randy Richardson http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/02/12/getting-listed/#comment-165 Randy Richardson Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:21:29 +0000 http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/02/12/getting-listed/#comment-165 Hi Cheryl, Since I took a break from blogging, it's nice that you're busy keeping my name out there. I'll read anything that has my name in it :) By the way, I finally got around to putting up a link to your blog on my site. Have you used any of the free online press release sites? There are a couple of pretty good ones. PRWeb.com is one and BookCatcher.com is another. Also, you might want to check out BookConnector.com, which is a service to help small press authors connect to book review sites, reading and signing venues and newsletters. Hope to meet you in person one of these days, too. Randy Hi Cheryl,

Since I took a break from blogging, it’s nice that you’re busy keeping my name out there. I’ll read anything that has my name in it :) By the way, I finally got around to putting up a link to your blog on my site.

Have you used any of the free online press release sites? There are a couple of pretty good ones. PRWeb.com is one and BookCatcher.com is another. Also, you might want to check out BookConnector.com, which is a service to help small press authors connect to book review sites, reading and signing venues and newsletters.

Hope to meet you in person one of these days, too.

Randy

]]> By: Dorothy http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/02/12/getting-listed/#comment-162 Dorothy Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:25:58 +0000 http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/02/12/getting-listed/#comment-162 Hi Cheryl, I have scads of places to add your link in my ebook, <a href="http://www.thewriterslife.net/promoteebook.html" rel="nofollow">A Complete Guide to Promoting & Selling Your Self-Published eBook</a>. The key to getting top placement in the search engines is to have your link in as many places as you can. You really don't have to solicit for this as long as you add your link to places like you have mentioned and send out articles (with your link in the bio) and sending out press releases on a real regular basis. I managed to get a couple of free ebooks that my writing group and I wrote and published into the number one spot in Google in one day...just simply by doing what I mentioned above (everything is in the ebook...there's a sampler you can request which goes into more detail on my website). Hi Cheryl, I have scads of places to add your link in my ebook, A Complete Guide to Promoting & Selling Your Self-Published eBook. The key to getting top placement in the search engines is to have your link in as many places as you can. You really don’t have to solicit for this as long as you add your link to places like you have mentioned and send out articles (with your link in the bio) and sending out press releases on a real regular basis. I managed to get a couple of free ebooks that my writing group and I wrote and published into the number one spot in Google in one day…just simply by doing what I mentioned above (everything is in the ebook…there’s a sampler you can request which goes into more detail on my website).

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