Post #12–Two Women Business–Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler

If writing (and finishing) a book and getting it published was easy, everyone would write a book. Still, thank goodness it’s not this difficult. Here’s a video produced by the Digital Marketing group at Macmillan that is pretty funny. Have fun with this. Enjoy.

Post #9–Two Women Business–Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler

Podiobooks.com

I discovered Podiobooks.com just a little more than a year ago and I’ve had a lot of fun exploring the site’s new and innovative writers ever since. I really don’t recall how I fell upon the site, but I definitely remember the first series I downloaded. It’s called “Great Moments in History” by John G. Stockmyer. It’s British, and Mr. Stockmyer created these recordings back in the 1970s as an engaging way to teach history. He presented historic events as if a BBC-type reporter was on the scene…only the events he chose (Battle of Thermopylae, Britain sailing against the Spanish Armada, an interview with William the Conqueror, and more) occurred long before radio and television.

I’ve been a fan ever since. More importantly, I believe that Podiobooks.com may be a useful resource for new authors looking for an audience. You can record your book chapter by chapter, and “readers” can sign up for regularly scheduled downloads delivered like podcasts to iTunes or through your RSS feed. All the instructions are on the site.

Podiobooks.com is guerilla marketing for the author. If you have an earlier book that never received much play, why not read your book aloud, save it as a series of mp3 files, and see if you can’t build your own audience. If you succeed, you can report on your success in your next book proposal. It’s legitimate evidence of interest in your work.

As of today, the 52,119 reader members can choose from 263 titles. Books of all sorts are eligible: novels, compilations, anthologies and nonfiction. You’ll find author submission guidelines here.

Here’s a little sample:

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