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Author's Guide to Planning & Selling At Book Fairs and Festivals

Years ago a trusting new author set out to promote his first novel at a few book festivals over the summer. With no book festival experience and one to guide him the results were disastrous. That author was me. For the past four years while attending several book fairs and festivals in six different states I have watched many new authors make the same costly, painful mistakes, in fact some have even invented new ones. T… Continue

Author's Guide to Planning & Selling At Book Fairs and Festivals

The Authors Guide to Book Fairs will not only help you avoid costly mistakes at book festivals, it also walks you through selecting the events that are right for you and what supplies you need to succeed. The information in this guide will also show you how to promote your appearance at book signings so that you can maximize your novel’s exposure.
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This year's trek from Philadelphia down to the2009 West Virginia Book Festival in Charleston was the last of three book fairs that my family and I have attended over the past three weeks. The indoor event held at the Charleston Civic Center was a welcome change from having to deal with the temper tantrums that Mother Nature threw during the fairs in Maryland and New Jersey. During the two day event I had the pleasure of meeting many fans of sci fi and fellow authors. Sales of my 2012 scie… Continue