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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Every author thinks about getting on Amazon, but this book validates the aspirations of a much broader audience.

• Speakers, trainers and consultants have information they would love to share with event participants, attendees and potential clients.

• Inventors, programmers and product development gurus have processes about which the public needs to know.

•  Professors, teachers and moms have book ideas for the students they serve.

• Pastors have sermon sets and grandmothers have the journals of a lifetime.

It has been said that there is a book in each of us, and the current publishing platforms make it possible for anyone, any author, to have their chance on stage.

Q: What is the book about?
A: eBooks: Idea to Amazon in 14 Days is ideal for how-to and business authors who want to take their words from private to public. This book reads like a personal journal, but is actually a guide for any author who is ready to sell some books.

The blow-by-blow progression of Marnie’s 2-week journey, from idea to publication, provides the shortcuts and success strategies you need to get published now.

David Sanford, Literary Agent. “Write and sell your first ebook. Marnie’s fast-paced book tells you virtually everything you need to know. Highly recommended!”

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I didn’t choose myself. A regional library directory chose me as the right person. I am the author of 11 books and eBooks, a pinch hit trainer, and a library lover. Once chosen, I invested every ounce of energy and every resource I could muster to put together the best training on the topic available right now. I hope I succeeded.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: Author opportunities are changing at a mind boggling rate. This book is definitely the up-to-the-minute resource for authors who are serious about getting onto Amazon with the shortest learning curve possible.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: I am a how-to author. I write virtually for real people, with real challenges, who live in a real world. My hope and prayer is that something I say, write, or do will have a positive affect on your life, or at least on your day.  Thanks for the opportunity to be here!

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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Ohioans, former Ohioans, and fans of writers’ memoirs.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Good Roots is a collection of essays and poetry from 20 prominent writers about growing up in Ohio. Each chapter offers a short profile of the contributor — they range from political satirist PJ O’Rourke to Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver — and a childhood photo of the writer as a young Buckeye. The writers’ upbringings range from city to small town to rural. Yet what they have to tell us about their roots resonates with a shared heritage, a sense of what is universal and enduring about growing up in the heartland.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I was born in Cleveland, then returned from the East Coast to Ohio with young children and raised them in a small town for 10 years. I collected the essays because I wanted to explore what it would mean for my kids to grown up in Ohio.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: There isn’t a collection quite like this, that I know of.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A:The Ohioana Library awarded the book a first-ever Legacy Citation in 2008 for outstanding contributions to the state’s cultural heritage.

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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Fiction authors who are published by a Print-On-Demand publisher, published by a small press, or self-published.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Without an obvious target market or news hook, new fiction can get lost in the sea of novels published every year, no matter how well written it may be.

Successfully Marketing Fiction in the 21st Century is a step-by-step guide that’s jam-packed with proven tips and ground-breaking strategies to make your novel a sales success. Mystery and thriller writer Austin S. Camacho offers hundreds of winning tactics in simple, straight-forward language. This book will show you how to:

• Overcome the stigma of being POD or self-published
• Create a basic marketing plan
• Make positive contact with booksellers
• Make your book signing an event
• Handle interviews for newspapers, radio or TV
• Make the best use of web-based marketing tools

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: As a mystery and thriller writer I’ve personally used these techniques to get my six novels onto the shelves of major bookstores and into the hands thousands of readers. This book is the second edition of one you may already have on your shelves, even though the title is a bit different. Authors often update how-to manuals with new material, but titles don’t generally change. I think you deserve an explanation for that, but I have to take you back to bring you up to date.

I wrote my first full-length work in 1985 in the infancy of home computers. I submitted that first, admittedly awful, manuscript to publishers and agents with predictably disastrous results. I kept writing, improving with each attempt, yet the results continued to be the same. In 1999, at a time when I thought I had a manuscript that others would really enjoy reading, I learned about a new publishing option called print on demand. I couldn’t afford thousands of dollars to self-publish then, but for a couple of hundred dollars I could get a book published and find out for sure if I was deluding myself about my writing. I turned my words into a book through POD publisher Buy Books on the Web.

As it turned out, a lot of people wanted to read Blood and Bone and I got a lot of positive feedback. Within three years, my publisher had changed its name to Infinity Publishing. By then, there was a lot of competition in the POD marketplace, but few people had found much success because most authors didn’t understand the necessity of marketing their work. I was one of Infinity’s most successful writers, so the company asked me to write a guidebook for their other authors. Successfully Marketing Print-on-Demand Fiction hit shelves in 2003.

Since then, as I’ve moved to self-publishing and publishing with a small press. Aside from short stories published in other peoples’ anthologies I have four novels in my Hannibal Jones detective series in print plus two action thrillers. I’ve spoken dozens of times at writer’s conferences, seminars, book clubs and civic organizations. I’ve secured a New York literary agent. And I’ve sold more than 3,000 copies of my novels. In that time I’ve heard two things from readers of my marketing book. First, I was told that most marketing books for authors were filled with tips that were valuable only to nonfiction writers and that my book was the only thing on the market just for fiction writers. Second, readers told me that many of the tips I offered also were valuable to those who didn’t choose the POD option, that just about anyone who had not yet landed a contract with a major publisher could benefit from my marketing approach.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: This is not a collection of theories, but specific tactics based on personal experience.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: Send me your best tips on how to market full length fiction. I will feature the best three in my newsletter and on my blog – Another Writer’s Life. The best three entrants will each receive a copy of my book, and the one who sends the best tip will also receive free business cards from Iconix.biz as well as a $50 gift certificate toward bookmarks, a book cover or any other service offered from Iconix.com – the company that designed the cover of Successfully Marketing Your Novel in the 21st Century.

GET the latest news about my novels and order copies at http://www.ascamacho.com
READ my blog at http://ascamacho.blogspot.com
VISIT me at http://www.myspace.com/austincamacho
HEAR the Hannibal Jones podcast at http://hannibaljones.podhoster.com

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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Aspiring and working writers, and readers interested in the process of writing and how book publishing works.

Q: What is the book about?
A: The Dog is based on questions asked by writers about writing and publishing. It presents an uncluttered approach to writing for publication, explains how to stay healthy and sane while writing while writing, and provides a strong foundation for present and future work.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: Twenty years of experience in trade publishing as a managing editor and freelance editor. I’ve edited and otherwise produced over 300 books of fiction, humor, self-help, cookery, management, and social issues for publishers on both coasts.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: The Dog is a hybrid of commonplace book and book-midwife-in-a-box that invites the reader to take only what they need and leave the rest. The quotes, anecdotes, and advice inspire the writer to keep writing. The Dog covers more than the usual books on writing: how publishing operates as a business, contracts, rewrites and editors to galley proofs, and typography and book design.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: Opinionated, irreverent, and derived from years of hands-on experience, The Dog demystifies the problems faced by both first-time writers and experienced pros.