I Was Interviewed Over at Blazing Trailers!

Kim McDougall interviewed me over at Blazing Trailers. You can connect with their blog HERE.

If you're not familiar with this site, and you have trailers of your books, check them out! They are a terrific marketing tool!

http://www.blazingtrailers.com/

(Adult site) http://adult.blazingtrailers.com/

A Mooney Marketing Tip - Free Excerpts

It costs pennies per disk. All you need is time.

Buy CDs by the bulk, and use those white paper envelopes to put them in.

Hand them out at all book signings, in each book order you mail out, or send them to friends and fellow authors who are seeking freebies for giveaways!

Here's what you do:

Prepare an ad for each book.

Include a picture of the cover,

a direct BUY link (from your publisher's website, Fictionwise, ARe, wherever!),

ISBN number,

genre,

link to your website, MySpace, and YouTube (if you have a book trailer video),

BLURB,

EXCERPT (be sure to give a rating for the excerpt!).

Save as a MS Word file, or better yet, convert into a PDF file (you can find free PDF converting software on the internet.)

If you save every ad in one folder (mine is labeled PROMO DISK), then all you have to do is "drag and drop" the folder to burn on each disk.

I also found out that you can even drag and drop those .mpv files on the disk, too!

A Mooney Marketing Tip - LinkTiles

A free service (best kind, right?)

You can find it at www.linktiles.com

You upload the covers of your books, or your avatars, or whatever jpeg or gif that relates to you. You include embedded links to your website, your publisher, wherever you want interested folks to go.

The object of LinkTiles is that it's a concentration game. If LinkTiles chooses one of your pictures to include in their game for that day, you get an email letting you know.