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Monday, November 15, 2010

Audio/Video Promotion or Who Says Poets Can't Promote

It is common knowledge that it is more difficult for writers of fiction and poetry to promote their work. It can be done, however. This post is sort of a holiday gift to poets. That is, I am sending you samples of what my poetry writing partner did with audios and a video to help us promote our Blooming Red: Christmas Poetry for the Rational (www.budurl.com/BloomingRed). I've also given you some links to my Web site to show you how I used the links and the html code for the video on my Web site.  I'm going right now to see if I can figure out how to install the video on Amazon.


Here are two audios of Maggie reading some poems from her section of our Blooming Red chapbook. She has amazing British/Aussie diction.
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/Six%20Million%20Years%20Ago.mp3
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/Silent%20Symphony.mp3

I installed these links on my Shopping Plaza (www.howtodoitfrugally.com/shopping_plaza.htm) and other pages on my Web site like www.howtodoitfrugally.com/poetry_books.htm and www.howtodoitfrugally.com/more_on_blooming_red.htm

Please enjoy Maggie reading one of her poems from our newest chapbook Blooming Red on my Web site. You can see how I used her video: (www.howtodoitfrugally.com/more_on_blooming_red.htm ). Be sure to scroll down to the poetry sample section on this page.



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Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of This Is the Place; Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered; Tracings, a chapbook of poetry; and how to books for writers including, The Frugal Book Promoter: How To Do What Your Publisher Won't; The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success; and Great Little Last Minute Editing Tips for Writers . The Great First Impression Book Proposal is her newest booklet for writers. She has three FRUGAL books for retailers including A Retailer’s Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions: How To Increase Profits and Spit in the Eyes of Economic Downturns with Thrifty Events and Sales Techniques. Some of her other blogs are TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com, a blog where authors can recycle their favorite reviews. She also blogs at all things editing, grammar, formatting and more at The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor . If your followers at Twitter would benefit from this blog post, please use the little Green widget to let them know about this blog:

1 comment:

  1. Good tips, Carolyn. Will have to add to my little Frugal Book Promoter notebook!

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