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GUEST ARTICLE: How to Make the Press Interested in You and Your Book

I can’t believe the number of authors I hear on the radio that get stumped by questions the host asks about their own book. Here is a tip that will not only make you sound better on the radio, but will make it easy on the press to want to pick you to interview as opposed to the hundreds of other books all competing for air time.

Write about 12-15 questions you would like the radio show host to ask you while on the air. After the questions are written, copy them onto a separate document and write the answers to those questions. Now you have two documents, one with questions and one with questions and answers. The one with questions will go to the radio show host (or other press) and the one with the answers will be your copy to have on standby during the interview. On the document with questions, put in parenthesis after each question how long the answer will take. For example: How long did it take you to write the book (answer takes 1 minute 30 seconds). This will greatly help the radio show host know how long each answer should take and helps the producer know long the interview will last.

Picture 50 books on a producers table, 49 of them are just authors looking for an interview. The host will have to read the books, develop the questions and make a timeframe for the interview. The other one is yours, with a list of questions and an exact time frame of the interview length. You are doing the work for them and they are more than likely going to pick your book out of the bunch.

To get some radio interviews right now, go to www.BlogTalkRadio.com and contact some of the hosts with your new list of questions and watch your book sales take off.

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Are Your Still Thinking About Using Facebook?

I’ve been telling authors how important it is to get on Facebook for months, and seen books and authors make new connections and sell books and get website visitors.

I’ve had new clients for my high end services come directly from Facebook contacts too.

Here’s an article that talk about the Top 10 facts about marketing on Facebook

The marketing possibilities are growing… Make sure we’re you have a Facebook profile and add me as a friend.

Print On Demand (POD) Explained – Guest Article

Though the term “on demand” usually refers to movies, the publishing world has a version of on demand called POD technology.

Publish on demand (POD) has really changed the way that the printing world produces books. In fact, there are hardly any printing houses that use traditional forms or printing technology, and many different presses now use POD technology instead. Rather than print a large number of books (or other types of publications) it allows a printing house to produce books as they are needed.

Many years ago, large numbers of books were printed at one time (often result in a large amount of waste). Today, those printing presses that use POD, only print one book per request. For example, if a press receives and order to twenty books, those twenty books are printed only after the order has been issued. This type of printing is also useful due to the fact that a POD press can easily retain digital copies of a text that are available when they are needed. Many university presses use POD as a way to print small quantities of texts as they are requested … and sometimes, a book that has been out of print for awhile can be reproduced using POD technology.

As far as efficiency goes, book publishing on demand technology has made printing small amounts of text very easy. Also, most POD presses will charge a publishing house one fixed fee per copy – no matter what the size of the order actually is. In this manner, the overall cost associated with POD printing is much lower than with traditional printing. Publishing houses will not have to keep a large amount of texts on hand when they use a POD company (instead, they can simply ask for copies as they are needed). From a publisher’s point of view POD printing really makes a lot of sense.

Though POD may be a valid printing option, there are also some negative things to consider concerning this process. Throughout the traditional printing procedure, the entire printing process is carefully monitored and inspected. When a POD company steps in, the printing is entirely digital, which means that a lack of quality control can occur. However, for the author that wants to self publish, contacting a POD company may prove to be inexpensive and useful.

As you can tell, book publishing print on demand technology has really opened up a lot of doors within the publishing world. As more and more publishing houses (and independent authors) move towards POD technology, traditional printing methods are slowly becoming a thing of the past … which may, or may not, be a good thing.

Aazdak Alisimo writes publishing articles for BookPublishingHouses.com – your resource for book publishing houses.