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Kristen Fischer, self-published author of Creatively Self-Employed, is one of the more effective authors that I’ve come across when it comes to using blogs as a marketing and PR tool to promote a book. Find out how she embraces the DIY style of book marketing with CSE and her upcoming book through Super College LLC. What can you tell us about Creatively Self-Employed to give readers the gist of your niche? CSE is a book about life after you take a creative plunge. It’s not a how-to; rather, I highlight 65+ real-life creatives who discuss the ups and downs including …

I had the opportunity to talk to Hannah Stone, the self-published author of two books on pregnancy loss, Forever Our Angels and Remembering Our Angels, about marketing her books. Hannah’s insights give you a look not only into promoting self-published books, but also how to market to a narrower niche audience and how to build interest and confidence in your work before your book is even written. Both of your books are self-published. What influenced you in deciding to go the self-published route? What kind of marketing challenges do you feel you face as a self-published author? I decided to …

For our first book marketing author interview, I talked with author / blogger / jewelry guru Tammy Powley about her now somewhat unusual experience with book marketing: publishers who do the bulk of the work. While publishers increasingly expect authors to be more hands-on with their book publicity and marketing efforts, they do still play an important role with many authors (even if just trying to convince them in your book proposal that you have what it takes to do your part to market your book if and when it’s published). Let’s learn a little bit about Tammy and her …