Birthright

If you don't subscribe to Writer's Digest Magazine, may I suggest you do so.   It is a wealth of information that can help you as an author, new one at that, to get the word out, up your game and improve on your gift! I came across some great information and I'd like to share it with you.  If you're not sure what the heck to do with getting your name out there...BOTTOM LINE:  Don't overlook traditional media outlets to expand your reach and up your credibility.  Any time you spy opportunities to get your name in the public eye, even if you have yet to pitch your novel, go for it! Even if you don't have any publications to announce yet, start collecting contacts early in your networking process (on your website or blog, and however else you can), so you'll have them ready when big news rolls around. Build an email list, and give readers every opportunity to join it.  Bring a guestbook to every appearance and ask if people would like to be on your email...

WHAT WORKS 1. Local publicity, especially if you live where your novel is set 2.  Book giveaways 3.  A wide-reaching blog tour 4.  Group signings and events 5.  Cultivating a community that fans want to return to 6.  Encouraging or teaching fans how to do what you do 7.  Hosting reader competitions for media or creative work 8.  Ramping up the excitement prior to the book launch WHAT DOESN'T 1.  Mass snail-mail campaigns 2.  Non-book (swag) giveaways 3.  A small blog tour 4.  Solo book signings (I don 't agree with this one ) 5.  Paid advertising 6.  Book trailers that are merely commercials 7.  Saying "yes" to too many time-consuming requests 8.  Extravagant publication parties This list of Do's & Don'ts was taken from Writer's Digest Magazine.

When it comes time to self-promote, you have to be crafty, think outside the box.  Sure you can promote on all available sites on the internet, join up on all writing sites and promote like mad on Facebook, Twitter, etc., but if you want to reach the masses, really "reach" the masses you have to get yourself involved in every kind of event that is out there and promote yourself and your book. Sure Barnes and Nobles is great, but hard because, as they stated to me, I'm just a local author, no one knows me and book signings at their "big and impressive store" just wouldn't cut it, it would flop.   Appalled at how I was treated, and knowing full well that my book was available on their website for their nook, I thought are they serious? Indie Book Stores are the way to go.  I've had the best luck with them and they just don't treat you as a "local author" a nobody in the eyes of any big chain book store, but they treat you as someone who ha...

In celebration of my novel, Birthright,  being 3rd in the Top Ten Sellers list (2nd being Hunger Games) I am giving out a free eBook copy! Go to: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/54200 Code: BH93C Expires: May 18, 2012

Book   Mouse  Weekly Bestsellers Top 10 Bestsellers Week of 03/25 to 03/31      1.  Catching Fire  by Suzanne Collins  2.  The Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins  3.  Birthright  by Sue Mydliak  4.  Max's Easter Surprise  by Rosemary Wells  5.  Mockingjay  by Suzzane Collins  6.  Illinois & Michigan Canal  David A Belden  7.  Skippyjon Jones: Great Bean Caper  by Judith Schachner   8.  Froggy Goes to Bed  by Jonathon London  9.  Buddha in the Attic  by Julie Otsuka   10.  Peter Rabbit's Happy Easter  by Grace Maccarone

Men… they can be so annoying one moment, then powerfully attractive the next.    Raine was all that and more, tall, dark, mysteriously handsome with eyes that drank you in and made your legs turn to jelly.   I loathed him. I threw the closest thing next to me, a vase.   Shards of china scattered the floor and its contents covered the walls.   Slow, cascading droplets left their trails as they made their way downward.   Like clear blood, while the dead corpses, the flowers, lay on the floor, lifeless, but I felt better for doing it. ABOUT THE AUTHOR BLOG Sue Mydliak is the Vamplit published author of  Birthright . Candra Rosewood returns to Utica, but she's already missed her parents funeral and everything she thought about her life turns out to be a lie. When Kane turns up unannounced on her doorstep, Candra, fights her strange need for him.Is he somehow involved in her parents’death? Is the mysterious Mr Bennet a friend or ...