Showing posts with label Frugal Book Promotion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frugal Book Promotion. Show all posts

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Book Review for Spiral Ceiling

Libby Grandy's very insightful and gracious review for Spiral Ceiling has just been posted on The New Book Review (http://www.thenewbookreview.blogspot.com) and I'm excited.  Getting closer to the May 2 release date, and a lot of the pieces are falling into place.  I have uploaded the contents of the book on Amazon so they will be able to let people look inside the book if they want a preview, but it's not visible yet.  And I need to figure out how to get Amazon to list it in a more detailed category than biographies and memoirs (of which there are about 200,000 currently available to compete with) if I can.  I think bios of scientists or of educators would be a lot more likely to be searched for anyway.  No one can read a list of 200 thousand entries looking for something.  They're bound to narrow it down, and then my entry will be lost.
If any of you are gearing up for a book release, I highly recommend that you check into the ideas of Carolyn Howard-Johnson (I've added her site to my favorite sites along the left side).  She has a free newsletter that's great.  However her Frugal Book Promotion book on Kindle is not very expensive, and it's a mother-lode of good ideas for someone who wants to make a book more visible.  And they are free or at least frugal!  That's the best part for me, as I near retirement.