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Nine Tips for a Successful Book Signing Event

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:September 16, 2017
Post category:Advice for Writers Autographing Books Children's Literature Janet's Speaking Events Literature Marketing Books Nonfiction

My essay “Nine Tips for a Successful Book Signing Event” got posted on September 16, 2017 in the Michigan chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators newsletter called The Mitten. The editor is Kristin Bartley Lenz. I recommend ways to benefit from doing a book signing at a school, library, conference, bookstore, etc. (more…)

Book Marketing Tips from 28 Authors, Publicists, and Marketers

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:August 16, 2017
Post category:Advice for Writers Books Interviews Marketing Books Mass Media

A new article by Sandra Beckwith about how to market books includes advice from Janet Ruth Heller. I urge people to “Do personal appearances and promote them. Libraries, schools, conferences, and bookstores often sponsor readings, panels, workshops, and book fairs for authors who live nearby. Also, local media will cover writers who have such events, so contact media with a press release.”

You can read the whole article entitled “28 Book Marketing Tips from Authors, Publicists, and Marketers” at

https://buildbookbuzz.com/28-book-marketing-tips/

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.