Michelle Thompson's List: Writing - Promotions & Marketing

A first-time author, a virtual unknown, can have his book rapidly climb to the top of just about every best-seller list. But that's what Timothy Ferriss of The 4-Hour Workweek did in 2007, and the way he did it was just as remarkable as what he achieved.

Here, the Write to Done blog interviews Tim on his book.

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Squidoo Lens which has some excellent information on how to go about doing a book promotion tour via blogs. Step by Steps, polls, you can comment, and the work is available under a creative commons license also.

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Duotrope's Digest, a database of over 2350 current markets for Fiction and Poetry.

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Michael R. Drew's blog on the book publishing industry. Includes categories such as building your own promotional platform.

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Post excerpts of both fiction and non-fiction books. Readers can comment.

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