Author U Your Guide to Book Publishing
Dr. Judith Briles
The AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast is ranked by Feedspot in the TOP 10 podcasts for Book Marketing and in the Top 100 in Author-Publishing Careers by Goodpods.
If you want to write and publish a book ... if you want to know the latest in book marketing strategies ... if you want to know what tools an author should be using ... and if you want to be successful as an author, Author YOU - Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles ... Everything You Want to Know But Didn't Know What to Ask is for you.
You will hear about statistics, scenarios, and strategies on what to do now! Judith features a variety of experts, besides herself, that are visionaries in publishing, book marketing experts, book design experts—anything that will get your book and YOU as the author—to the next, next level of success.
Sometimes, it's one step at a time; other times, you will leapfrog up the ladder. As The Book Shepherd, Dr. Judith Briles leads the conversation each week. She will include publishing professionals that will reveal tips and secrets to the author's journey. Sometimes, she goes solo and just shares her expertise that she has earned and learned over a 40-year period from the publication of her first book. Each week, you will get a new show, no repeats.
If there is a book in you, then you will want to listen and learn each and every week with Dr. Judith Briles, your Book Shepherd.
If you want to write and publish a book ... if you want to know the latest in book marketing strategies ... if you want to know what tools an author should be using ... and if you want to be successful as an author, Author YOU - Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles ... Everything You Want to Know But Didn't Know What to Ask is for you.
You will hear about statistics, scenarios, and strategies on what to do now! Judith features a variety of experts, besides herself, that are visionaries in publishing, book marketing experts, book design experts—anything that will get your book and YOU as the author—to the next, next level of success.
Sometimes, it's one step at a time; other times, you will leapfrog up the ladder. As The Book Shepherd, Dr. Judith Briles leads the conversation each week. She will include publishing professionals that will reveal tips and secrets to the author's journey. Sometimes, she goes solo and just shares her expertise that she has earned and learned over a 40-year period from the publication of her first book. Each week, you will get a new show, no repeats.
If there is a book in you, then you will want to listen and learn each and every week with Dr. Judith Briles, your Book Shepherd.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Apr 25, 2013 • 59min
Knowing How to Work a Room Sells Books Show 4-25-2013
What does Susan RoAne, author of How to Work a Room, Face to Face and several other best selling books have to do with you and selling lots of books? One word: Everything!
Today, on Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles, Susan reveals what is working with taditional publishing of books today, what's not, and what the latest strategies are for an author to create book success.
You will learn about:
-What publishing strategies work best and with which genres.
-Creating a best-seller that keeps on selling.
-How networking plays a huge success with you as an author and your book.
-creating author platforms
Susan RoAne is one of the true gurus in connecting and relationship building within publishing. It doesn't matter if you are traditionally published, self-published or work with an independent and small publisher. Her tenancity and know how to work a room, a situation, will be become the core of your book marketing success.
Another lively hour on Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles at 6 pm EST, author of Show Me About Book Publishing and Creating and Developing Your Author and Book Platforms.
Apr 18, 2013 • 58min
Red Hot Tips for Marketing Books Online Show 04-18-2013
What does Penny Sansevieri, author of Red Hot Internet Publicity, have to do with you and selling lots of books? One word: Everything!
Today, on Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles, Penny reveals what is working with marketing books online today, what's not, and what the latest strategies are for an author to create book success.
You will learn about:
-What Internet strategies work best with which genres.
-What are the best platforms to use to market specific books.
-How to create am Internet Marketing Tour that rocks.
-Google+ Authorship, Pinterest, Facebook, Podcasting, Video
-How you, as an author can take control of your marketing that will create immediate sales.
Penny Sansevieri is one of the true gurus in book marketing strategies. It doesn't matter if you are traditionally published, self-published or work with an independent and small publisher. Her marketing savvy will be become the core of your book marketing success.
Also joining Judith will be Nick Zelinger from NZ Graphics who reveals a variety of design tips fir eBook covers.
Another lively hour on Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles at 6 pm EST, author of Show Me About Book Publishing and Creating and Developing Your Author and Book Platforms.
Apr 11, 2013 • 58min
5 Key Steps to Blogging Success Show 04-11-2013
Blogging is one of the key strategists to soar your book success and your personal success as the "go to" person in your area of expertise.
Judith's guest is Joel Friedlander, The Book Designer who just happens to have over 55,000 followers on his blog. Starting just a few years ago ... he's build it with Content, Consistency, Commitment and no Crap. Learn what he did; how he did it; and the many ways he's been able to re-purpose ideas from it.
Joel is the author of The Self Publishers Manual.
Another lively hour on Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles at 6 pm EST, author of Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms, #1 Amazon Best-Seller.
Apr 4, 2013 • 58min
LinkedIn & Twitter Power for Authors Show 04-04-2013
Do you have a book? Are you writing one? Do you know how to market it, really market it with social media? Today's show is focusing on the latest and greatest on Twitter and LinkedIN.
Judith's Guests are Mike O’Neil & Lori Ruff are The LinkedIn Rockstars™, both are on “Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers”, the Global Top 50 on LinkedIn, and have received numerous recognition for social media, blogging, marketing, etc.
They’ve wowed audiences since 2006. Published authors, radio hosts and writers, they now offer online on-demand LinkedIn training. Book credits include “Rock The World with your Online Presence”, the first definitive guide on optimizing your LinkedIn Profile; “Rock The World with Social Media”, a guide to help LinkedIn members tackle additional social media tools, as well as numerous book chapters on the topics of LinkedIn and Social Media.
Lori has authored books: #PrivacyTweet, co-wrote #EntryLevel Tweet Book 02, and is working on additional books on Business Marketing and Influence.
Find Mike & Lori at www.IntegratedAlliances.com.
Another lively hour on Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles at 6 pm EST, author of Show Me About Book Publishing and Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms, #1 Amazon Best-Seller.
Mar 28, 2013 • 58min
Platforms, Pitfalls, Publishing 03-28-2013
Author and Book Platforms are the buzz. This edition of Your Guide to Book Publishing addresses a variety of questions, including:
-What are the most common mistakes the authors consistently make?
-What steps should authors do to market their books?
-What off the wall marketing ideas get the media's attention?
-What is the tell-tale test if you have the right title?
-Can a self-published really sell 3,000,000 books?
About Judith's guest s Greg Godek, an author who personally created a Platform, a Brank and Marketing Strategy that sold over 3,000,000 books ... who attracted the attention of a major publisher who bought his publishing company. Was it a happy marriage? Tune in and find out!
Another lively hour on Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles at 6 pm EST, author of Show Me About Book Publishing and Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms, #1 Amazon Best-Seller.
Mar 21, 2013 • 58min
The Business of Authoring 03-21-2013
This edition of Your Guide to Book Publishing addresses a variety of questions, including:
-What are the biggest challenges for today's author?
-What are the most common mistakes the authors consistently make?
-What steps can authors do to take advantage of all the changes within publishing in the past 10 years?
-What's a joint venture partner and how does an author acquire them?
-How can authors monetized more of their work?
-Do membership sites work and how can authors take advantage of them?
About Judith's guest s Sharyn Abbott, an author and author coach who specializes in showing authors how to get focused, including writing the first draft of their book within one week.
Another lively hour on Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles at 6 pm EST, author of Show Me About Book Publishing and Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms.
Mar 14, 2013 • 58min
Success with Pinterest Show 03-14-2013
Pin Your Way to Success with Pinterest
Pinterest is the Virtual Corkboard - think image bookmarking that others can see and share. Pinterest is a great social media tool for building your brand and generating traffic to your website. If increasing your book and product sales are of interest, then stay tuned. MarketWatch says, "Pinterest Users Nearly Twice as Likely to Purchase then Facebook Users" - and it's not just for girls.
Social media is at it’s best when we can schedule, integrate and measure the effectiveness of our efforts. We'll talk about what Pinterest is, but more importantly how to make it effectively work for you.
About Judith;s guest: An entrepreneur since 1987, Susan Gilbert (www.SusanGilbert.com) is the CEO of Online Promotion Success and has evolved years of traditional business experience into several cutting edge projects, which includes her web development, social media and search engine marketing promotions. As co-author of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting and Running a Coffee Bar”, she understands book promotion and has also been a regularly quoted resource in USA Today, Entrepreneur, Inc Magazine and many more.
Another lively hour on Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles at 6 pm EST, author of Show Me About Book Publishing and Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms.
Mar 7, 2013 • 58min
Online Book Marketing: Fiction Show 03-07-2013
Most authors fail in their market. You won't after you listen in to this edition of Your Guide to Book Publishing.
Judith's guest is Nicholas Taylor, a fantasy writer who now makes more money selling his eBooks and pBooks than he did when he worked in the corporate workplace. Join them as they are through a variety of "how-tos" in creating the marketing infrastructure for YOU and YOUR BOOK. They will cover:
-Cover art
-Blurbs
-Backlist
-Production
-Blogging
-Free Educating yourself
-Keeping a tight budget
-When to move from FREE books to PAY for the book
Nicholas Tayor has been writing for over five years and has a passion for storytelling. He got his start in fiction writing and publishing serialized podcast fiction in 2007. Since then he has expanded from audio into the world of print with great success. With his first novel, he moved over one hundred and thirty thousand free copies. Now people buy them!
Feb 28, 2013 • 58min
Repurposing Your Book: Audio Book Tech Strategies Show 02-28-2013
Repurposing Your Book
Too many authors create a book ... and stop. Not only do books breed other books, they are can, and should, take on new lives. Repurpose and Morph them. A longer live and increased revenues will come your way.
- How do you repurpose?
- What strategies should authors follow?
Answers will be here with Bret Ridgway--the master at creating variations of all things dealing with books.
Another lively hour on Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles at 6 pm EST, author of Show Me About Book Publishing and Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms.
Feb 21, 2013 • 58min
Book Launch Strategies Show 02-21-2013
Got Book? Ready to tell the world. Follow Judith as she sets up the launch for her book #30, Author YOU: Creating and Building the Author and Book Platforms, and book launch strategist Georgia McCabe to learn the insider tips and ticks.
Every author asks the questions:
-Should I create a special launch date?
-If I do, what are the costs?
-What components need to be in place?
-Which way would be best?
-How is book marketing done?
-How do I get partners?
-What about getting gifts?
Answers will be here with Judith and Georgia.
Another lively hour on Your Guide to Book Publishing with Dr. Judith Briles at 6 pm EST, author of Show Me About Book Publishing and Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms.
