Links of Interest
Barnes and Noble In-Store Book Submission If you would like your title to be considered for store placement, please submit a finished copy (no manuscripts please) of the book along with marketing and promotion plans, trade reviews and a note describing how the book meets the competition (what makes it unique) t The Small Press Department Barnes & Noble 122 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10011 The information must include the ISBN and the suggested retail price. The review process takes about 6 weeks, the Small Press Department responds to all submissions in writing.
Book Sales
Book Lovers Bookstore accepts published works on consignment until a track record is established. At that point they will buy the book wholesale price at forty percent. For more information please visit http://www.bookloverscafe.com.
Book Talk Radio Book Talk Radio is currently looking for authors to interview on their radio talk show - If you are interested, please submit your book synopsis, author bio, and contact information to RadioTalkers@aol.com.
Captive Additions Captive Additions is a company that provides valuable radio media interviews for those who have books/products/message/service to promote. For more information visit the Captive Additions website, or contact Captive Additions via e-mail.
Online Review The Online Review accepts all self-published books in any format for review. To submit your book, click here.
GetBookReviews.com Get your book reviewed within 2 weeks. You can exhibit and showcase your book at Book Expo America and other book tradeshows. Advertise your book in Foreword Magazine which reaches over 20,000 book buyers with every issue. We also offer ** Rapid Reviews of books ** Guaranteed press release distribution & placement ** Media databases ** Special price only $99 until the end of March ** and much, much more. Reviewers can also request copies of your book for review directly from our website. Check out our site for more information about us and our services. www.GetBookReviews.com
Reader Views Book reviews, for readers, by readers. http://www.readerviews.com
Kaye Trout's Book Reviews "I review Print-On-Demand (POD) and small press published books for my site and Midwest Book Review. If you would like your book reviewed, please send a signed copy to Kaye Trout, 65 Starbright Court, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147. If you would like to receive my monthly review newsletter, please provide your email address. There are no charges for these services." Please visit http://kayetrout.blogspot.com for more information.
Talk-N-Books Authors, publishers, and publicists interested in promoting books can contact Janet Coleman at TalkNBooks@aol.com . Author Bios and book summaries can be submitted at TalkNBooks@aol.com .
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Online communities
Midwest Book Review Established in 1976, the Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. MBR accepts no financial donations from authors or publishers for their services and features an excellent online book review publication that showcases reviews and commentaries of those Midwest Book Review editors and specialized reviewers who have demonstrated expertise and mastery of their particular fields, responsibilities, and interests.
Books and Tales “A virtual potpourri of information about print-on-demand publishing, web design, and other useful information for the writer" Books and Tales is the brainchild of author Clea Saal, who somehow finds the time between writing and web design artistry, to have compiled the most comprehensive data on print-on-demand publishers available on the internet.
AuthorMe “The mission of AuthorMe.com is to offer hope to writers that go unnoticed in the publishing world. We understand that a writer's dream is to be discovered and respected as an artist, to see his or her works published, and to be considered as a possible prospect for future media writings.”
Road to Romance The Road to Romance is a place for readers and writers of romantic and women's fiction. Their goal is to introduce new authors to readers, and new readers to authors.
Poets & Writers Online The web version of the excellent publication for creative writers, including articles, advice, forums, and contest listings.
The Black Writers Alliance “A nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting African-American writers in improving their craft and to promote fellowship among the writing community.”
WordThunder “WordThunder is designed to help fulfill the needs of the online, self-published author. Whether you publish through POD technologies, e-books or your personal web site, marketing and promotion can become an overwhelming challenge. If you are searching for articles, links, a place to promote your book, or just an opportunity to hang out with other writers, you have come to the right place.”
Publishing links
U.S. Copyright Office Copyright information and application.
Library of Congress The Library of Congress assigns a unique identification number to the catalog record created for each book in its cataloged collections.
ISBN Agency The official site operated by R.R. Bowker to apply for an ISBN publisher prefix.
Online Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Merriam-Webster Online Features a dictionary and thesaurus.
Thesaurus.com and Dictionary.com Related sites that include links to writers' resources, games, word information, and lots more.
Encarta Encyclopedia Microsoft's online encyclopedia with thousands of free articles.
Encyclopedia.com Provides more than 17,000 short articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition.
Web Directories
Business-Inc.Net - web directory
Epic Book Promotions will work with you over the next year to walk you through the process of marketing your book and help you with any of your concerns, using resources and experience in getting your book distributed to the "book buying" public.
Epic Book Promotions (EBP) will contact a wide variety of media sources and advertising outlets in order to get as many sales as possible. EBP will also act as the source of contact for private individuals and bookstores that wish to order your book.
