Free Excerpts From YOUR Books

     This is the place set aside to showcase YOUR books, writings, poetry, songs - anything you've created.  Submit your work here and share it with other writers, publishers, and anyone connected with the written word.  We'll showcase it here for you and help you get your work noticed.

     It has been said that there is no such thing as too much promotion and exposure.  So don't hide your light under a bushel - let people know about it.

     Submit the work you want to showcase to desertwriter2b@msn.com and I will get it posted here.

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How To Get Your Books Into Book Stores

     We all know that book stores have only so much space on their shelves.  It's impossible to stock EVERY book that is published.  So how do you get YOUR book store to stock YOUR book?

     Try anything you can think of, for starters.  Go into your book store and give the manager the number they can call to contact your publisher.  Your publisher should give the store a discount on the price of your book and will send the ordered copies to the store directly.

     Chat with the manager as long as he/she doesn't seem pressed for time.  Making personal contact will go a long way toward keeping you and your book remembered.  Leave a copy of your book, along with your press kit, business card, ordering info, phone numbers, etc.  I even printed up copies of my book cover (front and back) and I use that to cover my press kit, folding it in half only so it looks like your press kit materials are enclosed in the book jacket.  I used this in a mailing campaign, enclosing the materials in a 6x9 envelope.  It mails for .42.  (I'm kind of big on mail campaigns.)