Santa Barbara

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

                                                                                           Contact: Barbara Gaughen-Muller 

                                                                                                           805 968 8567 Barbara@rain.org

Mark Coker SMASHWORDS Encourages Authors:  Enter GlobalEbookAwards before Deadline



"Greetings from the first day of The San Francisco Writers Conference, which goes through Sunday. I'm on several panels and then will do an ebook publishing primer Sunday morning. Lots of good sessions today.

"Dan Poynter gave a great talk on self-publishing where he shared a great marketing tip: Sign up for multiple Google Alerts on keywords and genre categories related to your writing so you can identify bloggers who might represent publicity opportunities for you (guest posts and book reviews).

"After his talk, I sat down with Dan to learn more about his second annual Global EBook Awards. The deadline for award entry is coming up - March 12, 2012. There's a $79.00 entry fee. They don't automatically accept all applications. The awards are only open to authors with books at Smashwords because they're using the Smashwords Coupon feature (you supply them the coupon) so their reviewers can obtain a copy. They also want to see that the book has complete metadata (title, description, etc.) and a good cover. After the book is accepted for consideration, the author receives a 6-week mini-course in the form of once-weekly emails covering six foundational topics related to self-publishing, marketing and promotion. Think of the mini-course as an unexpected bonus. To learn more about Dan's Global Ebook Awards, visit http://globalebookawards.com/instructions-for-entering/  .

"(NOTE: Smashwords does not earn a referral fee if you sign up. I generally never mention paid marketing opportunities but I make an exception for Dan because he's always been a great friend of Smashwords and all self-published authors. For many of us, myself included, our first exposure to self-publishing was Dan's classic book, Dan Poynter's Self-Publishing Manual)."

Enter before the deadline: http://globalebookawards.com/instructions-for-entering/

More than 100,000 ebooks are now published and live in the Smashwords catalog, thanks to the efforts of more than 36,000 Smashwords authors and publishers around the world www.smashwords.com .

Dan Poynter

Author-Publisher-Speaker

Para Publishing

Santa Barbara

805-968-7277